Customer Reviews for Brother - PT-P700 PC-Connectable Label Printer for PC and Mac - Black
Customer Rating
2
Rather difficult to install on a Mac
on May 18, 2014
Posted by: Leopold1500
from Dallas, Texas
For the most part I'm fairly happy with the unit think I would've rather had an older model that was not connected to my computer. The software was not intuitive it was pretty difficult to get the software installed on my Mac. Instructions were poorly written.
In woodworking (as is the case with many other endeavors) it is imperative to stay organized… labels are a critical key to success. The P-touch labeler can be connected to a computer allowing precise composition of labels. For example, I needed to make labels for some hardware storage bins… the labels had to be precise in length in order to fit. With the PT-P700 I was able to set the length (in decimal fractions of inches) precisely and get a perfect fit.
This product does not work well with OSX 10.9. The desktop application does not install properly and the P-Touch Lite software is awful and does not compare with the PC version i.e. totally deficient. Keeps losing contact with printer. Do not recommend for Macintosh.
I like this printer. Once I learned how to use the label editor I liked it even more.
BUT ...
It seems to have a problem with Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) that causes it to munge the label at the 73mm mark or so. Every time. Once that it fixed I'll give it five stars.
Once I attached it to an older computer running 10.7 (Lion) it works very well.
The editor did take some getting used to. But I have found that it's actually pretty powerful.
One suggestion I might make to Brother would be to have a really cheap tape available to use while learning the software. It's pretty expensive to use up 1" tape while learning the software.
I have no complaints with the hardware but unable to hook up to the USB on the router and use on the home network. I believe the software needs updating for both network and compatabilty with Windows 8.1 & Office 2013.