# I love my label maker! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627 "2007-04-25T18:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/21 "2007-04-26T10:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=Mirror Image egamI rorriM] And how would a tiny little label help in that situation? [/QUOTE] You’d have to use a very brightly colored one. And maybe even a big one. Like the one in \*\*Auntie Pam’s \*\* shipping department. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/22 "2007-04-26T10:26:41Z")
What you need now is another label maker that prints smaller labels, then you can label the label on the label maker ‘label on the label maker’ and label the smaller label maker (using the larger label maker) ‘label maker for labelling the label on the label maker’, then label that label ‘label on the label maker for labelling the labels on the label makers’. No need to thank me. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/23 "2007-04-26T11:14:48Z")
Labels are vital when your office has rack-mount servers. (And even if you don’t, really). Slap the static IP address on the network printer, label all the ports on the KVMs, put your name on your USB key so it doesn’t get ‘borrowed’ permanently, etc. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/24 "2007-04-26T11:21:36Z")
Make labels and attach them to random bits of equipment in the office, other people’s offices, in restaurants, etc. Suggestions: ‘Do not remove this label’ ‘Please disregard this label’ ‘Label may explode if removed’ ‘Property of CIA surveillance unit’ ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/25 "2007-04-26T12:59:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Make labels and attach them to random bits of equipment in the office, other people’s offices, in restaurants, etc. Suggestions: ‘Do not remove this label’ ‘Please disregard this label’ ‘Label may explode if removed’ ‘Property of CIA surveillance unit’ [/QUOTE] :: ponders for a moment:: Well, I do need a bigger purse… I should look for ones that will accommodate my planner, book, wallet, keys, cell phone _and_ my labelmaker! ::evil grin:: This is almost as good as buying a roll of “for vaginal use only” stickers from an online medical supplier and attaching them to every phallic object on campus. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/26 "2007-04-26T13:46:10Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] Hi. My name is TimeWinder, and I…am not so fond of my label maker. I’d use it a lot more, except that it’s one of those little keyboard + print ones, and the tape that comes out of the back of it is IMPOSSIBLE to peel the backing off of. I’ve spent ten minutes at it sometimes, poking away with a fingernail, trying to get it started. Often, I ruin the label and need to try again. And it’s not just the one cartridge – I’m on my third or fourth one. [/QUOTE] Is it possible that your label maker tape is, like mine, the kind that’s split in the middle to help you get the tape off? And that you haven’t noticed this? Forgive me if you have, but it took me a second or two. It’s split horizontally, if it’s anything like mine. You can actually take off the top half, position it exactly the way you want it, and bend the bottom half off for neat labels that sit square. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/27 "2007-04-26T13:59:10Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] This is almost as good as buying a roll of “for vaginal use only” stickers from an online medical supplier and attaching them to every phallic object on campus. 😃 [/QUOTE] That’s pure genius. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/28 "2007-04-26T14:05:21Z")
If you have an SO, you must label him or her, as well. I have no label maker of my own, but we have one at the office. I dream of getting of it and labeling the water cooler, the fish tank, the printers (“printer that works”, “printer that doesn’t work”), and anything else I can get my hands on. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/29 "2007-04-26T16:47:42Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] If you have an SO, you must label him or her, as well. I have no label maker of my own, but we have one at the office. I dream of getting of it and labeling the water cooler, the fish tank, the printers (“printer that works”, “printer that doesn’t work”), and anything else I can get my hands on. [/QUOTE] I did! He just IMed me right now to say “I’ve been walking around with “Aaron” on my hat all day and nobody even told me. You need to seek professional help.” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/30 "2007-04-26T17:09:27Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I did! He just IMed me right now to say “I’ve been walking around with “Aaron” on my hat all day and nobody even told me. You need to seek professional help.” [/QUOTE] :sniffle: I’m so proud. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/31 "2007-04-26T17:44:27Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] That’s pure genius. [/QUOTE] It is. The problem, however, is that there are SO MANY prominent phallic objects on my old college campus; a good portion of the school now has the “don’t drive in here, you idjit!” pylons all over campus in an effort to convert it to an almost completely pedestrian friendly campus. Most of them are painted black and have a “cap” on top, so they’re even more phallic looking. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/32 "2007-04-26T18:21:17Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] It is. The problem, however, is that there are SO MANY prominent phallic objects on my old college campus; a good portion of the school now has the “don’t drive in here, you idjit!” pylons all over campus in an effort to convert it to an almost completely pedestrian friendly campus. Most of them are painted black and have a “cap” on top, so they’re even more phallic looking. [/QUOTE] You need to learn to delegate. This is clearly a job you can give to some inferior who reports to you. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627/33 "2007-04-26T18:24:34Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] You need to learn to delegate. This is clearly a job you can give to some inferior who reports to you. [/QUOTE] Oh, if my five friends and I had gotten the $3 + shipping together at a time when the supplier had NOT been sold out of these things, we totally could’ve blanketed the campus in 20 minutes. 😛 Maybe some other time if I end up getting a second master’s degree somewhere in person. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-label-maker/401627.md?page=1)