Labelprinter

Dear friends.
I have a short question.
What is a good and affordable label printer?
Labels must also remain readable in the Sun.
Many have professional labels at their plants, I would like also like to.
Have an nice day,
Joseph

Hi Joseph,

I'm not sure if you are looking for a hand held printer or a computer driven one, but this is what I use, and have used for some 4 years now, and the labels are still fine, legible, not faded and not discoloured.

I use a Brother PT-2430PC, which is an old model now, but they are still available, as is the simpler PT-1230PC They print onto plastic label strip (TZ type), which I have found to be near indestructible, and it will cut each label as you print. You then have to peel off the backing tape and stick this onto a more rigid plastic label. The current model seems to be the PT-P750W which although listed at £168 on the Brother website, you can buy for around £60, and it uses TZe tapes, which I gather are very similar to TZ, but not sure if they are interchangeable.

This printer does has to be driven by a PC, which I do from an Excel file. You design your own layout, and link each field to the field in the Excel file you want. This is done through a free Brother program. You then see the file and the label in windows in the program, and select which rows you want to print. It can be a bit tricky to get it all right, but trial and error worked Ok for me.

Its a bit out of focus, but in the photo below, you can see the layout that this can produce. I print my collection number across the top, and then three lines, the first being the genus and species, the second the subspecies/variety if any) and the field number, and on the last line the location information. If the plant has no field number, then I used a slightly different two line format.

Oh, and if you do go this way, look on the internet (**Bay etc) for compatible tapes, as Brother's own are very expensive.

Goodmorning Chris,
Thanks for the lot of info you give me.
Im looking for an hand held printer. But could you tel me,how many centimeters is your label for the 3 lines ?
I see many sizes on internet..
Joseph

12mm.

Thank you Chris !

Just like Chris, I have the Brother P-touch 2430PC. Works very well, but as Chris said, the Brother tapes are rather expensive. A few years ago, Henk Ruinaard wrote an article about label printers in the Dutch journal Succulenta.

Wolter ten Hoeve.

Goodevening Wolter,(goedeavond)
On Marktplaats i see a nice printer, Brother P-touch 2430PC.
I did a bid,so we will wait.
Thanks also for your info,
Joseph

Wolter,
You have a private mail,
Greetings
Joseph