Brother P-Touch QL-500 Label Thermal Printer

I am a new small business starter. After approaching a fair few printers for labels for my products, the costs were unaffordable. After reading up on home label machines, the Brother QL-500 stood out from the Dymo and other machines on the market. It prints any size, was fuss-free to install on my MAC (or PC), the software that came with it was old but it took me no time to install the latest version for free from the net. I got printing in just minutes after opening the box. The top reason I went for this printer was the fact that I will never have to buy ink for my label printing again! It uses no ink as the labels do all the work! The labels are a little more expensive than simple inkjet or laserjet Avery for instance, but what you save in ink you can more than make up in labels! This little printer is the perfect size for any desks. It allows printing of any size labels, with options of oval or circle borders or lovely frames. The font options are almost limitless! It also comes with its onboard little guillotine cutter for single labels. The label rolls are easy to replace with just a lift and slot action. As well as the regular white label rolls, Brother do a clear, yellow and salmon colour label rolls. I hope Brother bring out lots of other colours to create brighter labels as this lovely printer prints only in black so brighter rolls would be welcomed for more colourful projects.

Lovely printer - if only all things in life could be as simple as the Brother QL-500.

Plug it into a USB socket on your computer, install the software, drop in the labels and away you go. It is the perfect product for producing self adhesive labels quickly and efficiently, and is tremendous value for money. I managed to cut & paste my address files into the Brother software, saving time & effort. Tremendous piece of kit.

I wanted a nice simple printer that would do "what it said on the tin" and this was perfect. Firstly its very easy to set up two leads to connect and the roll of paper just drops in and feeds through one slot. Once connected the software auto loads and you can have up and running within a few minutes.

For me there are many more plus points firstly its size you can plug it into the lap top use and then put away, no messing about with line ups and having to complete a sheet of A4 for just one label at a time then press the cutter and your done.

This maybe not aimed at a business printing thousand of repeat labels but for the home user its ideal, as for running costs only time will tell but with no expensive toners to replace that has to be a bonus, for me the Brother QL-500 is the perfect Label Printer

This printer was a very quick to install and set up.
So simple to work and use and the finished article is professional.
This is a must have for anyone who sends items on the eBay. The small Labels are a god-sent for re-labelling items with a box. Plus you can bar code the item in the address; to let you know what this is in the packet,after packing by using a bar code reader, this has been the best investment I have made as an eBay user.

Awesome product. Super saving way of printing label addresses. Easy to use, no need any profession or knowledge. No need for ink refill or any other thing, it works for unlimited printing.