Label printer advice

[gary]

I'm looking for a printer for printing small labels (about 20mm x 5mm), about 100-200 labels at a time. I guess a roll of labels is going to work better than a sheet as we won't be able to specify where to start printing on the sheet. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Dawg]

If you have Office or Word you will be able to print labels from Avery reference guides. The Avery wizard can help.
I find I get a much better quality from my local printer: just design the label according to a template and hand it over: it comes back printed on a new all singin' all dancin' laser printer and looks totally top. And it's not expensive.

 

[gary]

Thanks Dawg, but the labels being printed are all different and vary from day to day so we need to be able to do it ourselves.

 

[estwig]

We do the same Gary
As Dawg said using the Avery software templates and labels

 

[robbie williams]

We use sharpmark labels for wrap around labels for cables and for outlet identifiers - £45 for the software and various different types of sheets to print to. I am sure they will do something that you need

 

[KM-Tiger]

Avery software templates and labels

Crikey, you made of money?

Unbranded labels are a lot cheaper, and usually the same size as the Avery ones so you can use the same templates. Even if they are not, changing the templates is not that difficult.

 

[Dawg]

Ken Manu is right.
Clip labels are ok

 

[confused]

An excellent piece of software for labels is Jollytechs print studio, the snag is it is EXPENSIVE, it is very good though, has every standard size imaginable plus the option for custom sizes, can do barcodes and read from a database. Also the best thing about it is, its accurate, prints spot on everytime unlike others which seem to be hit and miss as to where it prints. I suppose its like anything, for large amounts it is worth it, for the odd one here and there it isnt.

 

[gary]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

 

[TheJollyLabels]

Hi Gary, I am sure there is some software out there which you could purchase and a decent printer which would be able to print all your labels out but I haven't a clue which and you could end up spending a lot of money for no reason. At work we brought a printer and the software hoping it would print out great quality labels however we constantly had paper jams and there were always big smudges on our labels. We actually decided to use a label printing specialist as our labels needed to look professional as they were for business purposes. Hope this is some help to you!