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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 You've Gotta Have One! Sep 28, 2008
By R. Beers
"Ronbo"
If you have a gazillion wires, cables, powerpacks, etc. laying around the house and can't remember what they're for, you MUST get this labeler. It's manufactured by Dymo, and sold as the RhinoPro 1000. Although you can get pricier models with a few additional capabilities that may come in handy if you're an IT installer, this one does the job flawlessly for home and small business applications. In addition to printing horizontally, you can print vertically in either plain text, italics, or all caps on up to two lines. You can also underline or put all the text in a box. It's great for labeling wires because it has a feature that allows you to print wrap-around labels that make two-sided cable labeling a breeze. It even prints clean file folder labels, and has built-in symbols for electrical, safety, and audio/visual applications. Electricians and cable installers must love this labeler.
The device itself is very reasonably priced, but like most printers now on the market, the labels are where Dymo makes the money. But even they are reasonable and come in a wide variety of sizes, types and colors.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Solid Performer Apr 26, 2008
By Tim Naff
"Tim"
This handheld printer comes with one 18 foot label cartridge. Replacement cartridges cost around $15. The cartridges contain the ink as well as the labels. There is a wide variety of cartridges available with different materials and colors. It has a "flag" mode that prints the input text twice with a gap in between so that you can wrap it around a wire and stick it back onto itself with both resulting sides labeled.
The labels have an easy-to-remove backing with a split down the middle. My only problem has been making the flags and lining them up exactly. Hopefully, practice will help.
It will print in three different sizes and offers underlining and a box around the type as choices. I've often used the small size print to conserve tape.
It's a bit bulky to stick in a pocket, so it may be a problem if you're going to be crawling around in attics and the like. The keyboard would be better for me if it were Qwerty-style, and I assume they didn't do that because it would make it too wide.
It prints quickly and with very high quality. I've been through nearly one cartridge, and it has performed flawlessly.
This is the kind of device you may get with one use in mind and then find a lot more. You can use it for virtually anything that needs labels of this size. I highly recommend it.
Tim Naff
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Good product for the price Nov 15, 2008
By Jason A. Guild
The RhinoPRO 1000 is a great device. It is constructed well and fits in your hand nicely. The quality of the labels is excellent and they seem like they'll be durable over time. Very easy to get started with and use.
I'm reserving the fifth star for two reasons.
1. The keys are organized sub-optimally
2. Device does waste some stock at the beginning and end of the label
Print your labels side-by-side at once with an extra space between them to offset problem number 2.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Good product-Hard to find supplies Dec 16, 2008
By Maine AV8R
PRO's: This thing works great. Good features. CON: The keypad is very awkward... nothing ever seems to be where you want it or expect it. It's difficult to find tapes, must order on-line.
However, the labels are great(they actually stick to things!), the split backing is easy to remove, even with big clumsy fingertips, and it has some nice extra features.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Lots of Potential but Several Shortcomings Jun 06, 2011
By Boilermate
I've had a Dymo LetraTag Label Maker for several years. While it felt a bit flimsy it has held up, but had one major fault...the labels, and isn't that the idea behind a label maker? The labels frequently came unstuck from glass bottles. If you tried to make a flag, they frequently don't stick to the object or to themselves.
After reading the reviews for this labeler I thought this would be ideal. Industrial grade and better labels, all for less than ten bucks more than the LetraTag. What's not to like? Well...
At first I was impressed.
- It feels sturdy and well built, industrial grade. The buttons, while a bit small, have a nice solid feel.
- It has a wide selection of tapes available. Amazon has a good selection but Label City dot com has an even better selection for a bit better price than most places. Don't get me wrong, the labels are still expensive, but they are for any label maker.
- The variety of label options: Two-line, vertical, flag, fixed length, etc. The ability to make multiple copies of the same label.
- Separate number pad.
- A/V, Safety, and Electrical symbol hot keys.
The non-QWERTY keyboard is a non-issue for me because the LetraTag has the same layout.
But the more I use it, the more its shortcomings rear their ugly heads.
- It is wide, short, rounded, bulky, and slippery. If you have ham hands like me this is an issue. I had to attach small strips of Non-Slip Tape to the sides so I could hold on to it.
If they went with five letters across instead of six (adding an extra row to the keyboard) it might have added just enough length and narrowed it just enough to counter the above.
- The buttons are too small and too close together.
- It requires two-handed operation. With the LetraTag, you press the "shift" key and it sticks until you press it again. This way you can hold the labeler with the thumb and pinky, and use your index finger to punch the buttons. You can also hold the labeler in one hand and punch buttons with the other.
With this labeler you have to hold the shift key down with one finger and the "shifted key" (i.e. one of the symbols over the numbers) at the same time like a regular keyboard. There is no "shift lock" feature. The shift key is poorly placed, next to the number pad. This makes this labeler clumsy to use, especially if you have short fat fingers. The "@" symbol (shift-3) and the "-" (shift-6) are particularly bad. Switching between one- and two-line mode (shift-enter) is another two-hander. Note: if the shift key was placed on the right side where the orange row of keys is this would make most one-handed operations possible.
- While you can specify label length in .1 inch increments, the smallest size is 1.5 inches.
- A lot of wasted space on either end of each label, and between multiple copies of the same label. The "Flag" mode leaves an inch of space in the middle of the tape. This is too much for flags on thin wiring like computer cables. I printed "Test" labels with an Epson LabelWorks LW-300, a Dymo LetraTag, and the RhinoPRO 1000. The Epson label was 1.2" long, the LetraTag was 1.375 long, and the Dymo label was 1.625". Using the multi-label mode on each I printed two of each label and the resulting label was similarly proportioned.
- If you select "symbol mode" either thru shift-space or one of the symbol hot keys, and change your mind (or accidentally press one of the hot keys) you have to select a symbol and then delete it. There is no other way to exit "symbol mode." While this isn't a big deal, it is one more annoyance with this device.
- It comes with a small "cleaning tool" to clean the print head. While there is a place inside the lid covering the print cartridges to hold the cleaner, the tool doesn't stay in. I'll try not to lose it, but...
- The cartridges are two-layer, the label and an ink ribbon. If you change cartridges before they are empty (i.e. change from nylon to heat shrink and back) it is easy to snag the ink ribbon. When this happens the ink ribbon may come out with the tape, and will be cut with the next label if you don't notice it. If you cut the ink ribbon, the (expensive) cartridge is dead.
With a little more thought, this could have been an awesome little label maker. In its present form it is somewhat less so.
Since the labels seem to stick better than the LetraTag, so far, I will continue to use it, but it is still frustrating to use.
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