DYMO LabelWriter Twin Turbo (69115)

I’ve had one of these on my desk for over a decade. I moved my home office and the Dymo stopped working when I reconnected everything. So I ordered a new one. Discovered I had set up the old one with the wrong power supply. Do now I have two and both work perfectly.

I use the Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo with my Mac (latest OS X version of all operating systems). Overall, I recommend this product, but many aspects of the software for the Mac are disappointing and really, the company should be embarrassed for not improving the Mac software.Positives:Once I got the software to work with the Mac, it worked on my machine to print fast and simply.Negatives:Installation was slow and took several tries. Finally, it took a phone call to tech support, and while they didn't seem on the cutting edge of Mac knowledge, they had at least heard of the Mac and could tell me how to get the printer to work with it.I have 2000 names in my Mac Address Book. The Dymo software crawls through them if I want to print from it through the Dymo software. Instead, I copy the mailing label directly from the Mac Address Book and paste it onto the Dymo label. Not a great solution.The Dymo software opens VERY slowly. I feel like I'm working with a pre-beta version of a product. Actually, I feel like I'm working with a cranky Windows 3.1 product. Opening is so slow that I just leave the program minimized on my dock. Yes, I have to leave the program running, the only one to require such a step, because it takes very long to open.Several keyboard shortcuts that work with most products on the Mac don't work with the Dymo, so you need to use the menu for many commands. Example: apple-m to minimize won't work.In short, I would buy the product since there's probably not a better solution out there for the Mac and the printer itself is well designed (well, it could be prettier from an industrial design point of view, more Bauhaus and less Chevrolet, but that's another issue). The Dymo software itself is slow and frustrating. I wrote the company but never heard back.

This is an alright label printer...here are some pro's and con's I've noticed. Granted, I've only had the thing for a few days, but I can already tell what's good and bad about it.THE GOOD:-Prints pretty quickly (regardless of quality of the printjob....see con's for more details)-Dymo stamps seems to be a nice program (although I haven't used it yet)THE BAD:-THE USB CABLE THAT CAME WITH IT DOES NOT WORK! IT'S A DEAD USB CABLE; IT DOESN'T WORK ON ANYTHING! I TRIED USING IT WITH MY LASER PRINTER TO TEST IT AND IT DOESN'T WORK! IT'S RIDICULOUS......-It's HUGE! I had no idea how big this thing is! It takes up A LOT of space on my desk...I mean I--like most people--don't read the product specs to see how big it is. Even if I did, though, I would have never imagined that it would take up this much space!-Jams A LOT! Every second it jams, and then I have to press the feed button and take out a label and re-roll the entire spool. So I have tens of single labels just sitting around....because you have to remove the single label and re-thread the entire thing every time you want to print a label...-The software is A PAIN TO INSTALL! It took ten times for it to finally be installed. Maybe that's because THE USB CABLE THEY GAVE DIDN'T WORK....-The LabelDesigner program doesn't know what PROPORTIONS are! I had to print several labels and they all came out LOPSIDED or CUT OFF! I don't understand at all! They have pre-packaged labels AND pre-determined proportions RIGHT IN THE PROGRAM! You choose which size label you want, and it's SUPPOSED to work.I was expecting more from Dymo. I would NEVER pay $160 for it...luckily I got it a little cheaper.

Being the third or fourth Dymo LabelWriter I've had, this thing is a super time saver in the workplace. I manage the IT function entirely at a manufacturing facility. From labeling DVD's, CD's, to printing asset tag labels or lease labels, address labels, this thing works wonderfully.The software is fairly easy to use, and allows you to save templates for later retrieval and usage.The only draw back I've ever found with the Dymo system is that I often don't keep the boxes the labels come in-- each role/type of labels has a unique number, and that's how you choose the proper label template when printing. So.... I end up guessing. The labels don't have that number written on the center of the roll or anything.I also have a personal Dymo at home for postage printing. Being that the post office is removing all 24 hour vending machines soon, this will come up for even more use.I've never had a mis-feed or jammed label. Always crystal clear printing, no smudging, scraping or any other print quality issues.The unit is easy to load and unload.One draw back is that I have my computer set up in my bedroom. There are blue LED lights on the front on the unit which is the label advance button (rarely used). Those little suckers are so bright I sometimes turn the unit around to keep from waking me up at night!

Works perfectly on a Windows 2000 XP platform. Software is very good and easy to use but a few minor improvements would be welcome. For example an easier way to reorganize the address templetes to separate US and Overseas addresses....in Europe the last name is put first and the zip is before the city...this would have saved me a lot of time. A filter to separate the addresses into Family/Business/Friends/etc. would also be very welcome. A word of warning if you're planning to use this for stamp-printing. It works GREAT and it will save me a lot of time but you're going to pay a premium of about 7 cents per stamp which is just fine with me but may not be worthwhile to a lot of people. The quality and ease of printing is excellent. The downloadable, up-to-date postage rates is wonderful (it'll save me a lot of overpostage). Overall, an excellent product whose software is very good but in need of a few minor "twicks"