Editorial Product Review:

Item Description:
With the PT-80, you can create labels for any application. Select from the many frames, character sizes and styles to design beautiful custom labels. In addition, the variety of tape cartridges available allows you to print labels with different widths and exciting colors.

Amazon.com Item Description:
The Brother PT-80 Personal Labeler is an affordable, handheld personal labeling system that can print a wide variety of tape colors and styles. Everyone can use a little help getting organized, and this compact, easy-to-use device makes it a breeze. It's perfect for homes, home offices, and small offices and particularly helpful for crafts, school projects, financial management, and all sorts of kid activities. You'll come up with hundreds of uses for this label maker. From tidying up your closet to making scrapbooks, the PT-80 can help keep your household -- and your life -- running smoothly.

PT-80 Personal Labeler is an affordable, handheld personal labeling system that can can help keep your household running smoothly. View larger.

Special Features
The PT-80 easily prints labels in six type sizes, nine type styles and one font for all different labeling needs -- all you have to do is type in your text and print. It's that easy! To make things even more precise, at the touch of a button you can also add the time and date to your label. This feature is especially helpful for labeling perishable food, financial records, smoke alarm batteries, and spice racks. With the PT-80, you can print non-laminated labels that are 0.375 and 0.5 inches wide.

Personalize Your Labels
It's fun to personalize your labels. The PT-80 gives you the option of selecting from 71 symbols to creatively display information on the label, and also includes five auto formats and five framing options. In addition, you can take advantage of nine different types of styles, including italic, bold, and vertical. Along with its easy-to-view, 12-character LCD display and easy-to-use typewriter style keyboard, the PT-80 features raised keys for more accurate input. It also prints one to two lines of crisp text, and can add text framing and underlining.

Print Speed, Resolution, and Tape Size
The PT-80 is designed to offer you the very best label-making technology available in a compact, personal-use unit. The print speed is 7.5 mm/second, while the resolution is 230 dpi. You won't have to wait long for your labels to print out and when they do, the eye-catching sharpness of the text will stand out. The tape measures 26.2 feet, which means it won't require constant re-supplying. You can also print up to nine copies at one time.

The PT-80 comes with a one year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
PT-80 label printer, 1/2-inch black on white tape, and user's guide.









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Customer Rating: - Surprisingly difficult to use and expensive
Most significantly, it doesn't save much time when it takes 15-20 seconds just to peel the backing off every single label! I thought date-stamping some food would be a good idea, but I just grab a pen now.

I couldn't get it to print, at first, and read the manual completely trying to figure out the problem. It turns out the back of the printer has to in place before it will print. Clever, but it would have been nice to include that in the trouble-shooting section!

I had to read the manual to figure out how to get it to feed labels--it just shouldn't be that difficult to use.

I've used it to print maybe a dozen labels in 3 weeks and the batteries are already shot! That just seems ridiculous to me.

In reality, it seems this printer will be a lot more expensive to use than I ever expected.

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Customer Rating: - Quick and easy
It's not the world's best labelmaker, but at it's price point I'm satisfied with it. I bought this for my small business so that I could label cables, computer parts, power adaptors, spindles of cds, etc. Works fine.

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Customer Rating: - Can be fixed to use batteries correctly
I bought this item several months ago and promptly packed it away when I found out that you could only print 1 or 2 labels before replacing the batteries. I figured I had just received a bad one.

Recently we used one that we found unopened at work. I printed one very short label using brand new batteries and the battery died. I figured I'd need to forget about this one too. Fortunately, the man who repairs our transports came in and noticed the label maker. He inquired about it and I explained what had happened. He went and got a pencil (he used the eraser) and did something to the batteries and the label maker. The batteries work again and haven't died since. I wish I knew exactly what he did.

I originally would have rated this item a 1 but now give it a 5. Hence I averaged the total and gave it a 3 here.

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Customer Rating: - no battery problems here
I have owned this labeler for a couple of years and use it at school to label my student's instrument lockers. I rarely have had to change the batteries, although I think having to use 3 batteries in a machine like this is a bit much. It has been a terrific little labeler! the tapes are way too expensive, but they do offer nice color combinations.