Dymo LabelWriter 400 Label Printer (69100)

by DYMO

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5 x 5.2 inches ; 3.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009KRY6Y
• Item model number: 69100
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,626 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #87 in Office Products > Office Electronics > Other Office Equipment > Label Makers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 7, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Dymo 69100 LabelWriter 400 is the perfect companion for any professional who prints labels frequently. It is ideal for creating labels for envelopes, packages, files, barcodes, and more, including postage stamps. It has a sleek, compact design (measuring just 5 inches by 7 inches) and is easy to fit on a desk. Connecting to your computer via USB, the LabelWriter prints directly from most office-oriented programs, such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, WordPerfect, ACT! and more. It is incredibly fast, as well, able to print up to 40 labels at 300 dpi per minute. It also uses no ink or toner, making it a low-maintenance solution for all your label-printing needs. What's in the Box
LabelWriter 400 printer, power supply, USB cable, Windows and Macintosh software and user's guide on CD-ROM, quick start guide, and one roll of address labels.

Product Description

Prints over 40 styles and sizes of paper labels in seconds flat from your PC or Mac via USB Connection. Choose labels for envelopes, packages, files and folders, even Internet postage. Included label software integrates easily with most software applications. Up to 40 labels/minute.

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Customer Reviews

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, no problems!, April 4, 2006

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Travis Dockweiler "tdockweiler" (kalamazoo, mi USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dymo LabelWriter 400 Label Printer (69100) (Office Product)

Works great. I never used the included software though. I got sick of waiting in line at the post office so I bought this to print out postage. I use a software from my postage provider and can print out postage for any type of package. I just wish that Dymo offered a label for printing just the postage and not the postage with an address. I've figured that each postage and address label costs me 10 cents total (for both). Not bad really.

Another great thing about this is that it doesn't require ribbons or ink! It's not super fast at printing, but printing out a dozen labels doesn't take much time at all. Not fast, but certainly not slow.

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good, basic label printer., July 24, 2006

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Steven A. Godun "sgodun" (North Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews
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I bought the printer for one reason: to create shipping labels for my eBay items. I'd previously been using Avery inkjet labels with my inkjet printer, which worked but it was an annoyance to have to print only one or two labels at a time. THE GOOD: Absolutely no problems with the printer, getting it to work, etc. It has a very small footprint which I like, and it's very quiet when printing. It even comes with a roll of address labels. THE BAD: None significant, although the address labels are useless to me since I'll be doing nothing but shipping labels with it. The included software on the CD was old (updates available on the Dymo web site) but that holds true for pretty much everything in the computer industry. The software has some good features (mailing lists, and the ability to use the OS X Address Book database), but otherwise it's pretty minimal and limited, particularly in its design capabilities. This would have gotten five stars if it wasn't for the software, which feels like a hurried afterthought rather than a finished OS X application. (PS: Dymo has an OS X Intel-native version of the LabelWriter software that is available for download, but is NOT on the CD.)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad Software but Excellent Hardware, July 5, 2007

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Robert R. Birge (Coventry CT) - See all my reviews
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The software for the labelwriter is truly awful and some of it damages other applications. If you use Microsoft Word with other applications that share startup manipulation of the Tools menu, you will find that the DYMO startup file, DYMOWordAddin.dot, will destroy all the other starup commands of applications such as Adobe pdfwriter, Endnote, and others. These applications will no longer appear in the menu, but the DYMO application will. This is doubly insulting because the DYMO addon is itself dysfunctional. The only safe way to create labels is to use the DYMO label application, which works reasonably well, although it too is unable to position graphics and writing with the necessary flexibility.

If you run into problems after installation, find the word startup folder and remove any addins with DYMO in them. This is a cross platform problem that involves Win XP and Mac OSX. Once the DYMO files are removed, Word returns to proper function.

The software is terrible, but the hardware is excellent. Although the labels are rather expensive, the printing is clear and crisp and one has access to all of the fonts on your computer. If is hoped that DYMO will put a greater effort into the software in the future so that their total product is as good as the hardware they sell.