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    What type of printer are you using?

    What printers do you use? I'm looking to buy a thermal printer for Black Friday, mainly to print shipping labels.
    Do you guys have any recommendations?

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    Your title is a bit confusing, also this being in chit chat threw me off. I nearly replied to start talking about my own printer. But that's obviously not the point of this thread.

    Perhaps it would help if you were more specific about your intended use? Do you intend to use this printer at home? Do you expect to use it often? Etc.

    Also, welcome to the forum!

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    For home use a Brother printer would be fine.

    For use in a shipping department, you may want to consider a Zebra printer. It depends on how many labels you will be printing per day.

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    I felt this was a serious question, so it needed to get out of Chit-Chat.

    I don't have a functional printer. I do have a printer, but it uses a parallel port still.
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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels View Post
    Your title is a bit confusing, also this being in chit chat threw me off. I nearly replied to start talking about my own printer. But that's obviously not the point of this thread.

    Perhaps it would help if you were more specific about your intended use? Do you intend to use this printer at home? Do you expect to use it often? Etc.

    Also, welcome to the forum!
    Thank you for the welcome. I owned an online store and sold things I made. I think it is troublesome to go to the post office often to print labels, so I want to buy a good shipping label printer. I guess I use it three times a week. And I want to print things at home.

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    OK, so not a shipping warehouse operation.

    I use a Brother label printer at home. I have one that has both the USB and network interfaces, so it can be used from multiple computers. You may or may not need that capability.

    https://www.brother-usa.com/home/lab...sort=relevancy

    https://www.brother-usa.com/products/ql600

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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    I vote for Zebra, but i admit i‘m biased, since we use them in the company i work for

    And, i actually don‘t have any experience with other label-printers except Zebra and Toshiba (and boy, do i dislike the Tosh-ers….)
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    Re: What type of printer are you using?

    @slowdown: you're welcome. I am afraid I don't know much about label printers so I can't be of much help there.

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