DYMO Label Printer LabelWriter 450 Direct Thermal Label Printer, Great for Labeling, Filing, Shipping, Mailing, Barcodes and More

This is a good little label writer. I am pleased with its performance. Just be aware that it will not work with computers using ARM-based processors. I did not discover this until after I had purchased a new ThinkPad :(

We use this little printer, the Dymo LabelWriter 450 Turbo, to print ingredient and name labels for various products, all of which are used in a freezer and go through freeze/thaw cycles. The print quality is great and the off-brand labels I used (Enko) work great on our containers in the freezer.We've printed over 42,000 labels in just six months and it has work perfectly the vast majority of the time. Every so often it jams and it can be a bit of a pain to get fixed, but it only takes a few minutes to get it working again. Also, if you put the labels in the wrong direction then it will 100% jam every time because there isn't a sensor to tell it that they are in incorrectly, so just pay attention as you are installing it. They go in with the sticker facing down, so it is a bit odd initially.We use three different sizes of labels and it takes literally SECONDS to change the label type. It also has a system in place which automatically prevents the labels from printing in the wrong spot. What that means is you will never have to slowly adjust the location of the labels on the spool to get it to print in the correct spot. It prints perfectly center every time.The print quality is great - we can print extremely small font and it is still legible. It is very quick. The small labels we use can print about 2 per second and the largest can take about 1.5 seconds per label due to it having an image (our logo), but prints faster if only text is displayed.The program that comes with it is adequate for printing simple labels and text. It is fairly simple to use and only has a couple of annoying aspects that can be overcome with some patience. For example, if you are typing or copy/pasting in a text box you will have to manually press enter for each line break, otherwise it will continuously write the text on the same line way off the screen.Overall it is a great product. I will probably buy a couple more in case this one breaks, but at the sub $100 price point it is totally worth it, especially considering the volume of labels that have gone through it. Definitely recommended.

Unlike what many people claimed, it actually does work with ebay & paypal shipping. You just have to make sure your printer is set to any of the Dymo Labelwriter printers (I experimented and tried them all, and they all seemed to work fine with this printer). The one thing you need to buy separately to print shipping labels with ebay/paypal is a roll of 2-5/6x7-1/2" labels (DYMO 99019). This makes shipping things so much easier- no more cutting out labels, fussing with the inkjet printer or having to tape the label on. It also never needs ink refills, so it will eventually pay itself off (compared to the cost of refilling ink for an inkjet over time). I highly recommend this to anyone who ships a lot.EDIT 6/1/2014:Since I updated to Windows 8.1, I have been having a few issues with the software and drivers for the printer. First, when printing a shipping label on paypal or ebay's website, a bunch of annoying java popups come up and I have to repeatedly click allow, ok, accept, run, etc. It used to be more streamlined. This is likely due to the security issues with java, but it's still annoying and adds a lot of steps to printing a shipping label.The other problem I have been having is with the actual Dymo software/driver itself. When I am using Dymo's app to design and print labels, for some reason it prints an extra label each time (meaning that if I printed 10 of 1 label design, it would print 11, or if I told it to print 1, it would print 2). This is a waste of labels and gets annoying. I could always tell it to print one less than I need, but that isn't an option when I only want 1 label.I have found myself switching between label rolls a lot. I print fragile stickers, shipping labels, packing slip (receipts) and sometimes mailing addresses. When I sell something on ebay, I print both a packing slip and a shipping label, so I have to print one and switch the roll and print the other. This isn't a design flaw with the actual product. I am just suggesting that if you sell online or think you'll print lots of different types of labels, maybe consider the 450 twin turbo.If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask in the comments below. I'll do my best to answer them :)

I loved this product ! It was really simple to use and added the blank labels In there connected it to my laptop and the printer functioned perfectly ! It’s small but the quality of the print is perfect !