Brother PT-2100 PC-Connectable Labeling System with AC Adapter

I have wanted a labeling device for some time and always thought of them as plastic strips with pressed letters. These labels are great and so easy to make. I choose this one as it comes with an ac adapter which is about another $30 dollars for the ones without. At $45 it was less than a $20 labeler plus adpater. As other reviewers state, the machine is the cheap part, the tape is the expensive part. Check the cutting settings so you don't waste tape. I have not used the software that comes with this as those capibilities at this time exceed my needs. I leave it plugged in and it is reay to go. After a short period of non-use it goes to sleep. I am using the labels for cords and transfomers around my computer, labeling items, and will soon use them on file folders. At that time I may find uses for the software. All yo do is type in your info, if you need more than one line hit enter. Easy preview. You just have to remember to hit enter after every entry in the menu. The info remains so you can print it again or easily clear. I recommend it.

I purchased the Brother PT-2100 several months ago because I wanted a label machine that I could connect to my PC AND it was on sale through one of Amazon's special Gold Box deals or Daily Deals. Well I am finally getting my home office organized and finally hooked up the machine. It was a breeze, read through the manual, followed the step by step instructions and Bada Bing, it worked.I recently started doing real estate investing and had put a list of house addresses into an excel spreadsheet and all I had to do was select the cells that I wanted to print, right click, choose labeler from drop down, then print my labels. I first previewed the labels and decided to edit them and add a clip art to the labels, it was pretty easy. It took me all of 10 minutes clicking through the screens to see how things worked (probably would have been faster to look in the manual), I was able to create a standard label that I then applied to the other labels I printed by simply pushing a button.The only con is that I wish the front screen had a light in it so I could read it easier. The location of the labeler does not have the best light so I have to move it if I need to read the screen. Not really necessary to read the screen when using the PC because everything displays on the PC, but I also used it to manually type a label and the back lighting would have been key.Nice product and has made getting multiple files folders together a breeze and has saved me time, which I don't seem to have much of these days.

Having trouble with the Brother label maker software to print on my PC computer, I had called Brother tech supports several times but they asked me to reinstall the print driver. After the reinstallation, it's still refused to print. The computer said it refused to print because there was not enough spool to print the document. Tech service said he would contact me on the phone to help me out, but he never did. After a long troubleshooting the program software, I finally figured it out. The quality of the label maker printing is very bad because the printed types are not smooth but very rough looking. When the types are compressed and reduced to 7 point or less, they are very difficult and hard to read. It is not good for professional presentations. If I knew this, I would not buy it. If you print one label at a time, you will waste paper, so that, it is better to print several labels at a time. I had never figured out why the machine had to cut an extra inch off before it started to print. Maybe they programmed it to waste more tape. Label tapes are expensive. This label maker does not come with an USB cable. It uses 6 AA batteries.CONS.: Expensive label tapes, waste label at beginning of printing, no USB cable, difficult to install software to communication with computer, PC users ONLY not for MAC, Lettering around the C or the O is very rough looking, and it can not accept 1" tape.PROS.: Easy to peel, flexible and durable tapes, good designed unit.

I wanted to produce labels 3.5 inches long with the same font size to insert into plastic tabs for hanging folders; the machine could not do this. I verified this with two reps from Brohter. Seems so simple to do. What happens is the machine adjusts the font automatically when you specify a label length. Or, one can have the same font, but the label length becomes as long as necessary.Advice is make sure the machine does what you want before you buy.