DYMO LetraTag Personal Label Maker 11944 Silver

by DYMO

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Product Manual [94kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 4 x 3.1 inches ; 11.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005QJED
• Item model number: 11944
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,083 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2007

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

Product Description

LetraTag is just the right tool for labeling and organizing everything in your home or home office: storage boxes, photo albums, toys, CDs, shelves, light switches, circuit breakers, files, folders, garden supplies, food containers, tool box compartments, and even your kids' clothing. Designed to work comfortably in the palm of your hand, LetraTag features a simple ABC keyboard that's adult- and child-friendly. It prints on 1/2 in. (12mm) wide paper, plastic, and magnetic label tape - and on DYMO's new iron-on fabric tape for labeling your child's clothes, towels and more. Features: Wide range of symbols and edit features2-line printingLarge LCD display for easy editing and previewBuilt-in memory saves last labelDirect-thermal print technology saves you money - no ribbons, ink or toner cartridges neededEach LetraTag comes with a free Paper Tape Cassette (13 ft. long x 1/2 in. wide). Replacement Tape Cassettes are also available. Batteries are NOT included. The LetraTag requires six AA batteries.

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Customer Reviews

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114 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What fun!, December 4, 2002

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Nic Rosenau (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DYMO LetraTag Personal Label Maker 11944 Silver (Office Product)

If you're as obsessive about organization as I am, you'll love this little gadget. I use it to label everything from file folders to jars of spices or homemade jelly. The labels stay stuck and remain readable (although a trip through the dishwasher will fade the ink and may dissolve the glue). It's borrowed more often than my circular saw.

I do find that when you use the fancy font styles (such as italic or shadow) the text is less readable. The 2-line function works well, and the optional pictures are cute (but what prints doesn't match what displays in the slightest and they are distorted along with the text if you apply a font style). Text tends to print on the lower portion of the label ribbon rather than being centered horizontally.

If you've just punched in a long label, DO NOT suddenly decide to switch to or from the Big Caps size -- it will delete your entry.

If it starts behaving strangely, the batteries are low (which happens seldom. I've had the labeler for 5 years and changed the batteries once).

110 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this labeler, May 22, 2004

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L. Tesler (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DYMO LetraTag Personal Label Maker 11944 Silver (Office Product)

I like the paper labels to label paper and cardboard items and the plastic labels to label hard-surfaced items. They stay on well. Yet they are easy to peel off, especially the plastic ones.

The tape is self-threading. To change tapes, just open the hinged cover, pull out one cartridge, and pop in another. I keep a spare cartridge of each type handy.

The device leaves an automatic margin on each end of the text. If it is more margin than you want, it is easy to shorten the ends with scissors.

It is very easy to peel the backing off the tape because it is precut lengthwise. Peel off one half from the center and then peel off the other half.

The labels, even the metallic ones, cannot survive a hot flame. (Don't even ask.)

The manual is short, and definitely worth reading.

The product is much more than I bargained for. I highly recommend it.

50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inexpensive and great for most home/small office uses, February 26, 2007

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Janet Murphy (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DYMO LetraTag Personal Label Maker 11944 Silver (Office Product)

I have used this label maker for all kinds of projects around the house and our homeschool classroom, and I really love it, for the following reasons:

1. The label maker itself is inexpensive.
2. It is simple & intuitive to use.
3. The replacement cartridges are much less expensive than other brands' refills, and very easy to replace.
4. The labels are pre-split for easy peeling (which is no small thing when you consider how long it can take to peel a label made with many competing products).
5. The labels can be immediately repositioned if necessary, without losing their 'stick'.
6. There is not a lot of wasted label stock from excessive margins, like with other labelers.

There are label makers out there with lots of fancy features and font styles, etc., but this suits my needs more-than-adequately, and at an excellent price. I love it for general indoor-only household/office use, such as labeling file folders, drawers and shelves, containers, spices, books, boxes, etc.

A note: These labels will not stand up to direct sunlight/high-heat applications because they are printed on thermally-sensitive paper. In my opinion they aren't a good choice for outdoors, very sunny areas indoors, or the garage in a hot climate, unless your label is intended to be very temporary.

Interestingly, I have seen fabric iron-on labels available for this label maker, allowing you to label clothing, etc. I haven't tried this feature myself, but I thought it was interesting to mention. My kids hate scratchy flap-type labels in their clothes, especially at the neck, but without them I lose track of valuable size/care information. This would also be great for labeling coats/hats/gloves, etc., which get left behind at parties, parks, etc.

This is not product-specific information, but a thought on labeling in general: I never appreciated how much labeling could improve the flow and function of our lives until I got started. One example: I decided to label the pantry shelves to encourage the kids to put things back in a place that makes sense, knowing this would save everyone time when looking for something. I didn't realize it would completely change grocery shopping, too. Now I can go into the pantry, look at the empty spots on the shelves, and 'voila!', my shopping list is nearly done and more comprehensively than before. Less time to create the list and fewer forgotten items. Besides, it stays much neater-looking in there! I am not an obsessively organized person, but I do appreciate a little order in my life. Labeling is an easy way to achieve a little of that, and it's actually kind of fun. $20-ish bucks for a little more time and a little less chaos isn't bad.