I used my Brother P-Touch to slap labels that read “Urinal. M. Rutt” on the hugely expensive new water fountains installed at work.
We had one of those as a child and I remember playing with it. I don’t know if it was ever used for anything other than having fun.
In Japan, they have tepura, (from テープラベル tape raberu, how they write “tape label”) label makers. They will print English letters, hiragama and katakana.
They have a wide variety of tape, including iron-on which was very useful when my kids were at daycare and the dozens of items such as clothes, washclothes and towels that needed to be labeled.
The nice thing was that you only have to input the name once and then print out as many labels as needed.
Better than Awesome if you have one that hooks to your PC.
It’s not like I do not have one. Still, you have to appreciate the awesomeness of old-school labels:
I have the “Flamethrowers” label in my truck.
Interestingly, the Dallas Cowboys still use a vintage Dymo label maker to put the players name on the helmet.
My dad used one of those to create labels for most of my stuff (pencil boxes, etc.) when I was in elementary school. I thought it was neat, and the labels always stayed put.
Many years later (2000 or so), I was taking an elective class in my senior year of high school…I think it was called ‘peer tutoring,’ but most of us were sent over to the elementary school to act as teachers’ aides. I remember being very surprised when the teacher I was assisting handed me a Dymo labeler and the attendance list so I could create labels for the students’ cubbies. It was old tech, but it worked, and the labels were fairly easy to remove at the end of the year.
I still have one somewhere !
I’m surprised you can still get the tape for it.
I must dig it out…
What do you mean? Hell Dymo still sells the classic label maker. It can be yours for $11.59 from Amazon.
Mine’s more like this one (it’s got to be over 40 years old) :-
I thought they would have been made obsolete by the more versatile printers like
the brother P-touch thing by now.
I imagine there may be places where the old-fashioned Dymo works better? I wonder if it can be used to imprint Braille.
Unreal. Watched “Thunderball” YESTERDAY. Indeed, Little Nelly. Just a hilarious yet practical bit of stunt work.
Dad had a few Dymo label makers. I think there is still one hiding in the lap drawer of his ( my old ) desk. He’s been dead for 17 years.
They had a certain ruggedness lacking in Brother PTouch machines.