BROTHER PT E500 Portable Label Printer, P-Touch EDGE Series, Single Color

P-touch EDGE^® PT-E500 labeler
with PC connectivity and auto cutter

Designed by industry pros for industry pros.

The full-featured labeler with PC connectivity to handle bigger projects

When industry professionals design the labeler they really want …

The P-touch EDGE® PT-E500 is the result.

It has the powerful features they want to handle bigger, more complex projects. It can even connect to a PC and download and store data for use at the job site. But it’s also remarkably easy to use by practically anyone, by design.

Clearly and accurately marking your work is the sign of a professional. In today’s increasingly complex data centers it’s also a necessity.

Specs on many projects now require extended ANSI/EIA/TIA 606x identifiers. As such, there’s a lot more detailed information to manage, and a lot more to accommodate on each label.

The PT-E500 produces durable, laminated labels up to 24mm wide. It combines powerful technology with advanced features and intuitive operation that help make the labeling job faster, simpler and more efficient for your entire crew – without the need to read a manual.

A new standard for jobsite accuracy and efficiency

The PT-E500 raises the bar for jobsite accuracy and efficiency with its smart technology, PC connectivity and high performance features that minimize keystrokes and dramatically increase labeling speed and productivity in the field.

With the PT-E500 practically anyone can create and print the labels they need in seconds, simply by using its clearly marked buttons, built-in preformatted templates, and by following its onscreen prompts. They can populate those labels with data from downloaded databases to minimize keystrokes, or enter the data manually using the comfortable QWERTY keyboard.

So even generating serialized labels that address ANSI/EIA/TIA- 606x standards can become easier. Producing properly spaced auto-incremented patch panel labels in a single strip can go faster. So can marking wires with heat-shrink tube. Or printing cable wrap labels with rotated text. Even making barcode labels is simple with the PT-E500.

Practically every routine labeling task your crews now face – and the more challenging ones emerging – can be handled faster and more efficiently with the PT-E500.

Smart label application keys save time

Smart label application keys offer preformatted templates for the types of labels electrical and datacom contractors, and A/V and security system installers, use frequently.

These can help almost anyone make the right label every time, quickly and easily.

Change supplies fast with drop-in tape cassettes

The PT-E500 uses interchangeable, drop-in HGe and TZe tape cassettes that already contain all the materials required to produce durable laminated labels in the color, size or adhesive type you want. Changing label colors, sizes or adhesive types takes seconds. Just pop in the cassette you need and you’re good to go.

When you make a label with the PT-E500, your text, symbols and barcodes are printed on the underside of a clear protective laminate and then bonded to the adhesive and other substrates as the label is printed. So the label that emerges is already laminated, includes an easy-peel backer, and is ready to cut, peel and apply.

The laminated labels you can produce with the PT-E500 have been engineered to stand up to harsh environments, indoors and outdoors. They can withstand temperatures from -30 degrees (C) to 100 degrees (C), moisture, harsh UV, abrasion, grease and industrial solvents like acetone, and remain affixed and clearly readable for years.

Easy to use. Powerful features.

The PT-E500 was clearly designed to help make projects go faster and more efficiently – from start to finish. Drop in an HGe or TZe tape cassette for the tape color, size and adhesive type you need. Choose the application you want. Enter the text into a preformatted template or one you’ve created and stored on the PT-E500 already. Add industrial symbols from the hundreds builtin, and create and add industry-standard barcodes using the 9 built-in symbologies.

Then print and cut your label. Peel and apply.
That’s how it’s done.

Tapes for practically every application

HGe and TZe tape cassettes are available in a wide range of colors, sizes and adhesive types to match your labeling application.

Flexible ID Tape:
For wrapping and flagging wires and cables.

Extra-Strength Adhesive Tape:
For rough, textured and powder-coated surfaces.

Standard Adhesive Tape:
For flat, smooth surfaces.

And now, for the PT-E500, there’s Heat Shrink Tube.

All of these tapes are available on easy-swap, drop-in cassettes. So it only takes seconds to go from using Flexible ID Tape to wrap and flag cables and wires, to Extra-Strength Adhesive Tape to mark load centers and electrical panels, to Standard Adhesive Tape to mark outlet covers and faceplates.