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Don't waste your money
Date of Review: Sep 4, 2007
The Bottom Line: Don't waste your money. Amateurish, primitive, expensive.
Whatever junior-high class designed the user interface should flunk. This almost seems to be designed as "User Unfriendly." Setting fonts, sizes and styles is very primitive and confusing. Example - when setting fonts it asks "All, Line, Block?," etc. Then it asks for "Start" and "End." Regardless, it appears to set the same font for all characters on the line. The fonts remind me of the early adaptation of dot matrix fonts. The tape feature looks circa 1980 and the disk printing feature, while adequate, is very simplistic. If this is version 1.0, I'd wait for design version 5.0. Stick to Brother label makers and Lightscribe disc printers.
When was the last time you saw an electronic device with two separate buttons for "On" and "Off"? Similarly, unlike a keyboard where you depress the SHIFT key while typing for capital letters, this one requires a SHIFT toggle. (Push and release before typing the letter.) Perhaps they programmed this to operate on about 8k of RAM memory. Regardless, it has the look, feel and performance of an early 1980's electronic device (albeit printing on disks).
The media (ink and tapes) are pricey. I have not found any options other than black ink on a white tape. I had hoped to use this at home instead of dragging my Brother label printer back-and-forth from the office (or making a list of labels to be printed). I wish I had spent the money on another Brother printer, instead. Yes - this eliminates the need for stick labels on disks, but I'm simply writing on disks with disk pens instead of using this bulky machine.
