Customer Reviews

Dymo 11946 LetraTag Electronic Labelmaker (Metallic Blue)

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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!

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.

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.

I have two complaints about an otherwise excellent product.

1- It is not very self explanatory to use all the features of the product. The manual is non existent and so it can get a bit tricky to learn all the different type fonts and label templates.

2- No capability to plug in a power adapter.

Overall I think it is a great product.

First off- and I'm sure this is a fluke- I ordered this yesterday (Dec 22nd) at about 3pm. I used the standard shipping option. Imagine how thrilled I was when it showed up at my office this morning (Dec 23) at 10 am. SO I got to work. Labeled everything. And then some. I'll be using this mostly for labeling files etc. And I think its perfect for that use. I had NO difficulty using it- and that was even before checking out the user manual. Its lightweight- not too big- and does a fine job. Its also a great price. I was at an office supply place after work today picking up more label tape ( It came with a full roll of white paper tape- which I will get alot more use out of. I just wanted something fun...) And I saw it there for the full retail value- somewhere in the 40 buck area.

The batteries were simple to install- so was the tape. I used some of the paper tape that came with it- and then put in a new roll of plastic tape- no problem. One just pops out- and you snap the other in place.

I wish I had gotten it sooner. Really.

I was happy with it while it worked. I bought this a few years ago, ran out of tape, stuck it in a corner of my desk for maybe a month or so, and, when I tried using it again, found that the labels didn't print because the ink had dried up. There doesn't seem to be an option to just replace the ink cartridge, which makes my very useful label maker into a clunky piece of plastic. The warranty only covers it for 1 year. While the labels and keyboard worked just fine for me, I have mixed feelings about buying this product again, especially as the tape cartridges are so expensive and there's no way to fix the ink problem.

My first label maker I have ever purchased. Very easy to use, and made well. The labels stick well. Very happy with the product.

Tape sometimes get stuck trying to come out. Tape won't stick on some plastic surfaces. Other than that, does the job.

This labelmaker is fantastic. It will make you want to start organizing everything in your house. I was amazed at how many different things it could do. I got mine as a gift and am not an electronics fan, but I loved this. The instructions are very easy to understand, not intimidating at all. My five year old loves to label all of his toy bins, it's that easy.

I love this machine. It is easy to use, the labels stick well and believe me, when you get it, you will label everything!