DYMO LabelWriter 450 Turbo High-Speed Postage and Label Printer for PC and Mac (1752265)

Pros: Great label printer. Fast, precise, and easy to use software to create labels. I use it to make barcodes, and it's really easy. Just type your text and it converts it to the barcode. Very pleased, would recommend!

Cons: None that I have seen.

Pros: The label maker itself works as its supposed to. When it is working it is fast, quiet, efficient, etc....

Cons: The software constantly has to be reloaded for some reason. I have this labelmaker hooked up to a little network in my office for the 5/6 users to print labels to it and every other week the standard size adress lables just disappear off of the program until we remove it and reload it again.

Other Thoughts: I don't have the knowledge to figure out what the problem is exactly but it is quite annoying. Numerous conversations with them over the phone and they always act like they know how to fix it but then it just happens all over again.

Pros: We currently have 6 of these label printers in use throughout our offices. Every 5 to 10 minutes (12 hour days) 4 individual labels are printed. There are very few jams and the graphics and bar codes always print clear. The estimated life of these printers (3 years/460,000 prints) is pretty accurate. So far only 2 printers needed to be replaced because they wouldn't print anymore.

Cons: For our uses (printing labels only) there are no cons. As was mentioned in another review, the wiring can be a little cumbersome, but it's really not that big of a deal. I cannot comment about the software that comes with the printer as we don't use it.

Other Thoughts: We have lost quite a few printers over the years due to user error. While I'm not quite sure what exactly went wrong, as users generally don't admit anything and claim it "just happened", but I suspect they force printing or feeding when a label is jammed. This causes the label to peel off the backing and get stuck around the roller in the front. At that point it can require completely dissembling the printer to fix the jam. Its been so bad at times that we've just had to replace the printer.

Pros: Prints pretty fast. Easy to setup and install. I WAS fairly excited to get this and stay out of the Post office every couple of days.

Cons: The printer comes with a software CD that only contains a label printing application, then leads you to a download page to get the software to print stamps. That's two seperate applications to get the desired results. Once the DYMO Stamps software is downloaded and installed (doesn't take long at all, few seconds) you realize that not only can you not create postage for any package in First Class mail under 13oz (yes the post office allows any weight in first class parcel) but you can ONLY chose from Flat Rate postage in Priority Mail. I save an easy $2-$3 per package by using my own boxes (I have TONS of packaging from Newegg that work great for shipping to customers on auction sites). This makes this little printer useless to me, and I'll return it because of that. I do not want to print PayPal and other labels from the internet, but I guess I'll have to if i want to avoid trips to the post office.

Other Thoughts: Why the software is limited to Flat Rate postage is beyond me. I could have maybe lived with it if the First-Class postage would allow for over 13oz weight. Also, there is no place to key in a custom weight value... it's all prefilled or you must use a USB scale ($75 more!) to get a custom value. Again, I might have chosen to purchase this scale if priority mail wasn't stuck at flat rate. Maybe DYMO and Endicia.com don't want to do the extra work to get us what we want... that's probably why these printers (in any other of the LabelWriter line) has only 3-4 reviews each. It's going back. Sorry DYMO. That's a big oversight on your part, and you should probably get this a little more CUSTOMIZABLE because custom postage is what we want. I can buy a roll of stamps if i want a $.44 stamp. When postage increases, I just use a couple of smaller stamps to compensate. I didn't buy this to avoid USPS postage increases... I bought this to print postage outside of the post office amd save on ink.

Pros: Prints faster than the older models.

Cons: Software is now a heavier install, new interface sucks when trying to select labels by number and not description.

Pros: Fast, Cheap, and backwards compatible

Cons: Bulky power supply and the fact the plug in underneath the printer, so the cabling can be a bit awkward.

Other Thoughts: This does what it's supposed to and the software is pretty intuitive. We upgraded to this model from one we had for 5 years. This is much faster and the best part is we were able to transfer all our templates to the new software! Dymo is a great name when it comes to printing labels. That and this model is better then most and yet newegg has it much cheaper then most. You figure it out.

Pros: Very fast and no ink neede.

Cons: Need to update driver from Dymo website for Windows 7. Driver disk only work for XP and Vista only.

Other Thoughts: This label printer is really fast. It's great for personal and small business used.