Best Buy has the Brother PT-1280SR PTouch Electronic Labeling System for $10 with with free in-store pickup or $4 shipping. Features Easy-view 15-character display, save and print your favorite labels in seconds, laminated tape for labeling CD spines.
While this might seem like a good deal, it's not. Just like the really cheap full-size inkjet or laser printers where the cartridge price is exhorbitant, so, too, does it apply to these Brother P-Touch labelmakers.
Worse, not only are the cartridges expensive (costing more than the labelmaker), they're also wasteful, leaving 1" of blank tape both before and after the printing so you use up the tape much faster and have to buy the expensive cartridges that much sooner.
Just got home from picking it up...I like it! Just got done labeling my 9mm mags as I like to rotate!
While this might seem like a good deal, it's not. Just like the really cheap full-size inkjet or laser printers where the cartridge price is exhorbitant, so, too, does it apply to these Brother P-Touch labelmakers.
Worse, not only are the cartridges expensive (costing more than the labelmaker), they're also wasteful, leaving 1" of blank tape both before and after the printing so you use up the tape much faster and have to buy the expensive cartridges that much sooner.