Brady M210 Portable Label Printer with Rubber Bumpers, Multi-Line Print, 6 to 40 Point Font (Replaces BMP21-PLUS Printer)

Cord labeler used at home. Aesthetically beautiful results. Many options. Recommended!
I bought this to label cords at home. I’d tried other types of labels intended for home use but I didn’t like them. This device gives you many options. I was most excited to try the heat shrink ones because they so clean. They work great on cords but you either need a small plug or have the plug not yet attached. I found I use the auto laminating ones the most and they look just as great. The label quality is high end. Batteries last a long time. Lights up. If you appreciate aesthetic I highly recommend this! The labels are a little on the pricey side but I think they’re worth it. Their website will allow you to get various sizes of the shrink labels to see what size you need. I filled out the form to receive them with a description of what I wanted but they didn’t send and just had a sales guy calling me constantly. So i took my chances and figured it out on my own. I’m not a business. Would have been a waste of time for both of us. But thought the option was neat enough to mention for those that don’t mind talking to a sales person. I’m not sure why they couldn’t send it and have a sales person follow up after I receive them. They gather all information needed on their online forms.

High quality label machine
High quality label printer, that allows tons of flexibility! Brady labels are very durable as well.

A little expensive but it’s a pretty good labeler
So on a 45 foot sailboat there is a LOT of wiring all zip tied into big harnesses, and when you track one down, you don’t want to have to track it down again. I resolved some time ago to ALWAYS label ANY wire that I disconnect or install, I tried several methods for this, and a simple sticky back laser printed label usually works okay-ish especially if coated with epoxy or similar after being wrapped onto the wire, or encased within clear heat shrink tubing.I ran across this while looking for a better label tape for my Brother label maker. I liked the looks of it and the reviews were pretty good so I pulled the trigger on it. The tape is a little expensive, yeah. Hopefully third parties will come out with cheaper alternatives but the two I have, 3/4″ cloth tape and the wire label tape, are well engineered and the cartridges just work, and are easy to change out.Instructions? We don’ need no steenking eenstructions! Actually, yeah they would be nice. The little pictoglyphs don’t really tell the user much. It falls upon him to experiment and see what does what. For instance the first few labels I tried to print tried to print crossways across the tape instead of longways and I couldn’t figure out how to make it happen the way I wanted it to happen. The menu isn’t very informative. You just have to try stuff and waste expensive tape. Once you get it puzzled out, pretty simple. And it just works, as they say.I was surprised that it does not come with a wall wart power supply and that it comes with an empty battery compartment that you have to fill with a half dozen AA alkalines or the bespoke lithium battery pack that costs extra and you have to order… somehow. They also say that they have a wall wart you can get for it. It should, in this modern era, come already equipped with one or the other, though I do like that you CAN power it in an emergency with AA cells. So now I have to get a 9v power supply and get the right tip and solder them together and not get the polarity wrong. Hopefully there is at least an idiot diode in there to prevent reverse polarity damage.Also looking forward to yet again tracking down the breakers in my house, and labeling them. The 3/4″ tape should be perfect for that. I might even label the wires going to the breakers for good measure.So I really like the machine, just not the failure to include good instructificationalisms and the price of the consumables that currently cannot be outsourced or improvised with any level of practicality. Overall I give it a thumb up and half of another one and I do not regret the purchase.

AA Alkaline batteries only, WONT WORK off of LITHIUM
So far so good i just got it and really like it- tested a few prints for wires and it works well and was just what i needed.id knock off half a star technically if I could though PSA IT DOESN’T, OR ATLEAST MINE DID NOT, WORK WITH AA LITHIUM BATTERIES. ALKALINE ONLY. YES, I TESTED AND VERIFIED ADEQUATE VOLTAGE OF EACH OF THOSE BATTERIES.Kind of a bummer for me since i have a bunch of the AA lithium batteries already on hand and that they are better longer lasting. ohwell. So for other if you get this and put lithium AA batteries in there and it seemingly wont turn on, you need to try a different AA battery chemistry( Alkaline).

Belle machine,Mais pas de batterie encore moins de chargeur…Il faut remplir la bête de piles 6 AA…oui bon cela peut être des rechargeables…Mais bon vous pouvez acheter la batterie rechargeable…mini 75€ mais il faudra le chargeur9v cc…en plus.0Bref 1 étoile car pas d’information lor de l’achat…

For the price this labeller ticks all the boxes. There’s plenty of variations of fonts/sizes/lines etc as well as special characters & international signage such as those for electrical and data nomenclature. It’s also easy to learn how to obtain and print the various characters. There’s a great range of labels available albeit Amazon only sell a few types namely those which are the most popular. This is a shame because coloured labels are particularly helpful. But these can be got through the more specialised resellers. As for build quality and reliability the M210 is top notch. Their website is very comprehensive. There are more comprehensive labellers available by Brady and other brands dependent on the required options. Of course you can buy cheaper labellers but as I’ve discovered this M210 has plenty of options and it takes a bit of abuse all for less than £100 (incl a £40 starter cartridge) and people choose to buy them second hand (no doubt due to their robustness and longevity). 10/10 in my book.