Dymo 11946 LetraTag Electronic Labelmaker (Metallic Blue)

by DYMO

Product Details

Product Manual [94kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005QJEG
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 17, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Remember those handheld plastic label makers we all had as kids? You'd spin the wheel around and then clamp down when you got to the right letter (and you had to clamp hard to make a mark on that heavy-duty plastic strip). After you got your name out or made a message like "This is mine keep your hands off," you'd discover you spelled "keep" as "kep" and had to start over. Plus, the tape would invariably buckle and fall off wherever you stuck it.

Now label makers have joined the information age. The LetraTag 2000 labelmaker is akin to a handheld word processor, and boy, is it fun to use. There are so many cool little features that you really do need to read the instructions to take full advantage of it. To get started, you just flip up the top of the labelmaker and insert the cartridge. This model comes with 13 feet of standard white tape, but you can purchase extra paper, plastic, or metallic labels in seven different colors. The LetraTag requires six AA batteries, which are not included. Once those are in, you can press the red power button and get started.

The LetraTag defaults to normal text and lowercase letters, but with a little inputting you can create capitals, bold, big bold, italic, outlined, shadowed, or vertical text. It also has a box/underline feature that will surround your text with underlines or rounded, shaded, toothed, or pointed boxes, plus our favorite, the crocodile box (the croc grins at you!). If your labeling area is tight, you can use the two-line feature to double up the text so it prints two lines instead of one. It also provides a host of international letters and accent marks in addition to a range of symbols including a telephone, smiley face, heart, and cat.

As you input your label, what you've typed scrolls across the LCD screen (up to 72 characters). To go back and change your message, just use the arrow keys. When you're ready to print, you can press "shift-print preview" to see your label. Once the label is printed, just press the scissors key and the label will pop off. Handily, the last label made will automatically be retained in memory in case you turn the LetraTag off by accident.

Great for the home or office, kids or adults, the LetraTag is handy and easy to use, and comes in a funky translucent lime-green color. --Dana Van Nest

Amazon.com Product Description

Dymo's 91346 Lime Translucent LetraTag label maker features a six- character LCD screen and optional one- or two-line printing. It accepts 0.5- inch-wide paper, plastic, or metal tape. Easy operation is encouraged with a color-coded keyboard. The LetraTag label maker is designed for the countertop or handheld operation. A built-in tape cutter and easy-peel tab are provided for easy backing removal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely easy to use, May 7, 2003

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Vivacious (WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dymo 11946 LetraTag Electronic Labelmaker (Metallic Blue) (Office Product)

The DYMO Letratag is a great product for those who want to simply label and go. The price and ease of use is phenomenal and you can be printing labels straight away.
Another great feature is the portability of the Letratag; it is pretty light and fits well in the hand, being about the size of a large TV remote or average telephone. Labels are printed fast without any smudging, and it's VERY easy to change cartridges!
But there are a few drawbacks which caused me to lower the rating to four stars. One, the "keyboard" is styled in ABCD format, which makes it pretty aggrivating to find letters for those who can practically type with their eyes closed ;) or even just those who use standard QWERTY keyboards.
Two, while the Letratag has a few nice features including 6 text frame designs; 4 type sizes; 5 text styles (normal, outlined text, shadowed text, italic, and vertical); little symbols to decorate the text with; and many foreign characters, the lack of features may be frusterating for those who want to label much more than toy boxes or file folders or use it regularily for business purposes.
Thirdly, the two-line feature is nice but cramps the text to a very small size. It's impossible to make mailing address labels for this reason and another that you can *only* have two lines, cutting off where the name might go or the city/state/zip line.

The bottom line is you're either one of two types of labelling people. The first simply wants to quickly label things and get organized without a lot of fussing and thousands of settings.
The second needs images, other fonts, color, and more than 2 lines of printing for heavy duty labelling such as mailing labels or such things.
I would recommend this one for those in the first group. It's great for it's price and lets you get going right away!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Handy labelmaker but the labels don't stick well at all, August 30, 2006

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Mr Bass Man - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dymo 11946 LetraTag Electronic Labelmaker (Metallic Blue) (Office Product)

This is a really slick, handy-to-use labelmaker that I love to use but the label themselves don't stay stuck very well ... in fact the metal labels curl up after about 10 minutes on most surfaces. The paper is a little better but not much.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adequate for what I use it for, February 9, 2003

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LibertyWarrior (Republic of Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dymo 11946 LetraTag Electronic Labelmaker (Metallic Blue) (Office Product)

This labelmaker is adequate for what I use it for. Making labels is easy and fast, but it has a drawback. The keyboard is in ABCDE format, which takes longer to manipulate.

The cartridge format make it easy to instantly change color or material of labels.