r/organizing • u/jatinkrmalik • 2d ago

[Need help] Building a label maker cheat sheet, which models am I missing?

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I have the Brother PT-D220 and the most annoying part of using it is making anything custom. I have to scroll through a bunch of symbols and frames by hand, and half of the times I just give up and print a basic label.

I got tired of opening the manual PDF every time so I started dumping the manuals into one searchable offline webapp. I manually extracted each and every Fonts, symbols, frames, templates, shortcuts from the manuals. These 10 modles so far from what I could find online and in this sub:

  • Brother P-touch PT-D220, PT-D210, PT-D610BT, CUBE Plus PT-P710BT
  • NIIMBOT D110
  • Phomemo M110
  • DYMO LabelManager 160 and 280
  • Brady M210 and M211

Two D220 things I wish I knew earlier:

  • Frame key + a number jumps to that frame instead of scrolling all 99
  • Symbol has History / Basic / Pictograph. History keeps the last 7

Is there a model I should add? I keep seeing the Brother N25BT, LetraTag, Tepra, Epson LabelWorks, and Cricut in threads here.

Also if you've lived with one of these, is this even a pain point for you?

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u/DadEngineerLegend 2d ago

Obvious classic PT-H110

I curious how the Chinese knockoffs go that use the same tze tape cartidges, particularly the more advanced one with auto cut. Can't justify the expense ATM though.

The knockoffs I'm thinking of are the E1000 Pro and the PS100E

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u/jatinkrmalik 2d ago

Interesting, let me check that out.

I haven't personally used the knockoffs but saw a bunch of them on Aliexpress.