Brother PT-80 P-touch Electronic Labeling System

With the PT-80, you can create labels for any application. Select from the many frames, character sizes and styles to design beautiful custom labels. In addition, the variety of tape cartridges available allows you to print labels with different widths and exciting colors.

Brother PT-80 P-touch Electronic Labeling System The Brother PT-80 Personal Labeler is an affordable, handheld personal labeling system that can print a wide variety of tape colors and styles. Everyone can use a little help getting organized, and this compact, easy-to-use device makes it a breeze. It’s perfect for homes, home offices, and small offices and particularly helpful for crafts, school projects, financial management, and all sorts of kid activities. You’ll come up with hundreds of uses for this label maker. From tidying up your closet to making scrapbooks, the PT-80 can help keep your household — and your life — running smoothly.

Special Features
The PT-80 easily prints labels in six type sizes, nine type styles and one font for all different labeling needs — all you have to do is type in your text and print. It’s that easy! To make things even more precise, at the touch of a button you can also add the time and date to your label. This feature is especially helpful for labeling perishable food, financial records, smoke alarm batteries, and spice racks. With the PT-80, you can print non-laminated labels that are 0.375 and 0.5 inches wide.

Personalize Your Labels
It’s fun to personalize your labels. The PT-80 gives you the option of selecting from 71 symbols to creatively display information on the label, and also includes five auto formats and five framing options. In addition, you can take advantage of nine different types of styles, including italic, bold, and vertical. Along with its easy-to-view, 12-character LCD display and easy-to-use typewriter style keyboard, the PT-80 features raised keys for more accurate input. It also prints one to two lines of crisp text, and can add text framing and underlining.

Print Speed, Resolution, and Tape Size
The PT-80 is designed to offer you the very best label-making technology available in a compact, personal-use unit. The print speed is 7.5 mm/second, while the resolution is 230 dpi. You won’t have to wait long for your labels to print out and when they do, the eye-catching sharpness of the text will stand out. The tape measures 26.2 feet, which means it won’t require constant re-supplying. You can also print up to nine copies at one time.

The PT-80 comes with a one year limited warranty.

Brother PT-80 P-touch Electronic Labeling System Reviews

I just picked this label printer up (at Office Depot, since it was on special at nearly half the current amazon price) and am very pleased with the purchase.

The device is very light weight, using just 4 AAA batteries (not included).

I felt that the standard QWERTY keyboard was a plus over the ABC keyboards that the Dymo label printers use (this is personal preference — some people may be more comfortable with the latter).

The device has several built in preset label sizes, to accomodate the spines of VHS/DVD, MiniDV, File tabs and Dividers (though this does ‘waste’ the label tape, causing the user to have to restock sooner).

The device comes with a single spool of Black on White — the instructions indicate 26.2″, though the product description here on Amazon states this means 26′ of tape.

There is just 1 font, however labels can be printer either horizontally (the default for most people) or vertically. IN addition, you can ‘stretch’ it to 2x width or 1/2x width. A handful of symbols help you visually identify information (such as a small phone to indicate a phone number, or envelope to indicate email address).

Overall, the value is great, especially if you can get it for a low price!

I’ve been going through a phase lately where I’m trying to organize the clutter around my house… I’m just tired of the mess. One of the main reasons why I wanted a label maker was because of the tangle of cords associated with my home theater system. With power cords for two game consoles, cable box, TV, DVD player, a Roku SoundBridge and a wireless bridge all plugged into the same power strip it was nearly impossible to figure out what I was unplugging at any given time. Same went for the A/V cables connecting everything. I made double-copy labels and folded one in half around every cable to make an easy-to-read tag, so now I know what every one is for without having to trace a wire from one end to the other through the rat’s nest of wires behind the entertainment center.

I also used it to label all the boxes and Rubbermaid bins full of stuff in the attic storage space, and labeled some more plastic storage bins in a few closets.

The PT-80 features a full QWERTY-style keyboard that is easy to use, which is nicer than some other models that arrange the buttons in alphabetical order… I can two-thumb-type out any label in a matter of seconds. I’ve read some complaints about wasted tape, but I’ve organized three rooms with dozens of labels (many of them double-ended cable tags as I described for my entertainment center) and still haven’t used up the first 26′ cartridge. The little slot in the back of the device that helps peel the label end is nice, but doesn’t work on the first time, every time… usually I have to put the end in and strip it back a few times before I can peel the label from the backing. I don’t know if that experience is any different with other styles of tape, as I’ve only used the standard black-on-white tape.

An added bonus was that this device and the tape cartridges are significantly cheaper from Amazon than at the local office supply chain stores, especially with free 2-day shipping with Amazon Prime.