Customer reviews from Brother Europe
Brother - PT-P700 PC-Connectable Label Printer for PC and Mac - Black
Average customer rating
4
(10 Reviews)
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80%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Brother - PT-P700 PC-Connectable Label Printer for PC and Mac - Black
Customer Rating
4
A good printer for fully flexible labels
on August 28, 2015
Posted by: MarkDaniel
Gender:Male
This is a good printer if you want to fully customise your labels with logos, layout and graphics. It's also excellent for printing lots of labels with mail merge.
The software for Mac is a bit clunky, for example if you insert an image it sets it to 0x0 and doesn't maintain the aspect ratio by default. It's generally not as polished as something like Pages but it's serviceable. (Think MS Word 2003). In principle you can print to it from any software as it's just a printer but when I had a quick go I couldn't get the paper size right.
The range of tapes is good and unlike the main competitor you don't have to have an 'industrial' machine for the more industrial tapes.
The printing is clear but a little bit low res, I think it probably has roughly the same number of pixels across as my handheld printer but they're spread over 24mm rather than 9mm making graphics and small text look a bit blocky.
You do lose quite a bit bit of tape (about 10mm is cut off and discarded) each time you print an individual label which is a bit of a waste but if you mail merge it doesn't do that for each one so printing 20 or 30 labels at a time it's not a big problem.
I bought this on a cashback which made it exceptional value for money for a USB printer that will print industrial tapes. I just wish the DPI was a bit higher.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting Brother Europe
Customer Rating
4
Great, but what do I do with my old tapes?
on March 10, 2015
Posted by: Consallforge
All told, a fine little machine. Just what I wanted. Easily operated from my PC, with a small footprint on the desk.
But what do I do with my old supply of tapes? I have a much-loved and long-lived hand-held P-Touch, and I find that none of the tapes I already have will work in the new machine. It would seem that, whilst current tapes will work in my old machine, my new machine takes only much more recent tapes. And, yes, my old tapes are Brother OEM tapes!
Seems I can't throw away my old machine just yet!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting Brother Europe