Seiko Smart Label Printer 450 - Label printer - direct thermal - 300 dpi x 300 dpi - Serial, USB

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000G8NNSM
• Item model number: SLP-450 UK
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,464 in Office Products (See Bestsellers in Office Products)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2007

Product Description

Product Description

Stop wasting time trying to hand feed label sheets to your standard printer. Pick up the new Smart Label Printer (SLP) and you'll have everything you need to print labels easily, one at a time. Just like you want them, when you want them. No ink, toner, or complicated software to mess with. Plug the SLP into your Windows PC or Mac, connect to the built-in USB or Serial port and you're ready to print.With three great models to choose from, you're sure to find the Smart Label Printer that's just right for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent label printer, December 1, 2007

By	H. Lam (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My workplace uses Seiko 420 and 450 label printers to print address labels and Code 39 barcodes. As with other reviewers, we have found that these printers have difficulty keeping output alignment straight when using labels less than the maximum height supported by the printer (i.e., the 1.13 x 3.5 inch small address labels), even when the label guides are fitted to the label roll. When the printer is upright, output tends to either slant towards one side of the label and can print outside the physical margins of the label. Our solution to this problem is to turn the printer on its side. This usually helps to keep output alignment straight. The SLP 450 seems to keep a tighter grip on the labels than the 420; so the 450 is a little tougher to fix when labels mis-feed.

We've had no problems using the bundled SmartLabel software for printing single labels, though we typically use Microsoft Word or Excel to print multiple labels at a time. I've noticed that our printer technicians sometimes have difficulty setting up the label printers, but the trick is to ensure that paper size, margins, orientation (portrait versus landscape) are set properly.

Overall, the SLP 420 and 450 printers are decent products, though maybe a bit tricky for mainstream users to set up or troubleshoot. The SLP 420 is slow when printing in Fine mode (203 dpi), so choose an SLP 450 over the SLP 420 if you intend to print many labels daily, because the SLP 450 is much faster. Perhaps Seiko could move the label guides closer to the traction feed in a future product revision to help keep output consistently straight. Seiko's newest label printers are a good fit if your shop already uses Seiko or compatible label printers. Their ownership costs become competitive with Brother label printers when the Seiko printers are paired with high-capacity rolls (some of which require an external label tray).