Brother PT-H200 Label Maker, P-Touch Craft Label Printer, Handheld, QWERTY Keyboard, Up to 12mm Labels, Includes 12mm Gold on White Tape Cassette

This is great if you really like labelling things and making present ribbons and name tapes for your childrens clothes. I do think you need to be a serious crafter or have a lot of children to make name tapes for to make this worthwhile. This is because to print the tapes you need to but cassettes (and yes they look very like the tape recorder cassettes of yore) that contain ribbon and ink for printing. The tapes seem to range in price from £6 to about £30 (for a 2 or 3 coloured tape pack). You can buy ribbon tape in a wide range of colours, transparent tape and iron on tape from the Brother website (and also from some other websites) so its not that cheap to produce your tapes but it does produce a wide range of results. It comes with one ribbon cassette to get you started. It takes 6AAA batteries (not supplied) but you can buy a plug in adapter for about £15 if you use the printer a lot. It is easy to use - you take the back off, slot in the cassette. replace the cover, select the font you want to use and off you go and you cut the ribbon when you have sufficient length. Its kind of fun but a bit too pricey (£39.99 atm) if you think you might only use it for clothing tapes and /or the odd personalised gift ribbon. It would be a good thing for a craft group or group of parents to have or someone who crafts and gifts a lot. It seems very retro in this day and age to have a handheld labeller. It is fun though except I found the qwerty keyboard a bit trying to use with my stubby fingers

Spent a while trying to decide which brand and system of label printer I should get. Opted for the brother and dont regret it - has a wide range of backgrounds and fonts, plentiful and reasonably priced cartridges available at a range of stockists, and is comfy to hold, has PC layout keyboard and prints much faster than some other popular systems. Kids have enjoyed making labels galore - you may need to keep it under lock and key! Should add that the brother branded cartridges are excellent and the backing peels away easily and the label sticks through thick and thin. Have also tried a rival brand of machine (not brother) with a compatible paper cartridge (not the laminated plastic ones) and those labels printed fine but getting the backing off was almost impossible.

I love how easyit is use the Brother PT H-200! I was in two minds about purchasing this as I thought Id be disappointed. I was comparing all different models and brands and Im so glad I stuck with this! I will be using it to jazz up my gifts, and to add a personal touch to gifts, wrapping and hampers. I love it and whats even better is my 15 year old is also fascinated by it. Shes labelled all the spices and has plans to organise a lot more!

Great item. Purchased to sort my paperwork, so the ribbon that came with it wasn’t what I needed, although plan to add to personal Christmas messages to cards and Christmas table. Really simple to use and change cartridges Lots of arty options too - not just your average label printer

Great you can label anything.

Theres things to dislike about this ribbon printer, but the results are so good I cant help but love it. For a start, the keyboard is horrible: Cramped and fiddly with an unpleasant (though positive) keypress action. With only the 3 AAA batteries needed, the unit itself still feels oddly heavy when compared to other label printers, but thats not a major issue unless you need to hand-hold it during use. Its much easier to use it on a desk. Theres a reasonable variety of special characters, some basic emoji, a few music characters and some clothing-related characters. There are also some appealing pattern characters too. There are also over 60 bookend patterns that can preceed and succeed the printed text. Fortunately, scrolling through the options is fast and easy, which makes up a little for the poor keyboard. Theres a 9v DC socket if you need mains power (not included) and a corner cut-out for a wrist loop (if youre feeling strong). Where this Brother shines is in the output. Its lovely! The shiny gold text on white ribbon mine came with is delightful. (See attached pics). I wanted to knock off a star on account of its fairly high price, but the quality of the output and the sheer heft of the unit makes me suspect its sturdy enough for a small business to rely on. I have to admit, the output quality of this Brother PT-H200 exceeded my expectations.

Great item, purchased for my daughter. Although it came with ribbon it would be better to come with tape

This is an electronic label printer, similar to the Dymo range of LabelMaker devices, but aimed at the craft market. This means that it can print on a wide range of different materials - the included cassette is a white fabric ribbon on which the printer prints in gold, but it can also print on a variety of plain and patterned tapes, iron-on labels and the like. (Although that said, it is not obvious where you buy all of these from - Brothers online shop lists some, but not, for example, any more of the ribbon that is supplied with the printer. I should also add that it is not compatible with tapes for a Dymo labeller.) It is easy to use, with a full QWERTY keyboard and a reasonably intuitive menu system. There are a lot of options - 6 fonts, with various bold and italic options for each; accented characters, decorative frames, patterns and even emoji. It will print horizontally, vertically and upside down. A couple of niggles. First, the built-in tape cutter leaves far too much tape at the start of each label - there is around half an inch of surplus tape at the start of each print when then needs to be cut manually with scissors. Dymo printers manage not to do this - I assume it is a feature of Brothers cartridge design, but it is not ideal. Further, the styling on the printer itself seems to me to be clearly aimed at a female market; its all soft pastel purple with decorative curlicues around the edges. This seems unnecessary to me - it would be perfectly possible to have had a neutral design rather than something reminiscent of a womans electric shaver! Those niggles aside, its a nice printer; if you need to print on a variety of materials, its more flexible than the Dymo equivalent.

Perfect for what I need

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