We have had good luck with the Rhino series of labelers by Dymo. There are a lot of different label types and the cost of the labels is pretty reasonable. We bought ours through Grainger supply. There are a lot of Grainger stores around here and we can usually pick them up out of stock or we can buy them from CDW as well. We also have the Brady and personally I like the Dymo better. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Steve Meuse [mailto:smeuse@mara.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:22 PM To: Mike Lyon Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler? The BMP21 has kinda sucky cable labels, IMO. -Steve On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
I bought the Brady BMP21 handheld labeler from Frys about a month ago. It takes 6x AA batteries i believe. You can buy the power cable and case for it if you want. I love it so far.
-mike
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On Aug 21, 2012, at 18:29, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
On 8/21/12 6:10 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
Hey everyone,
Many moons ago I worked in a place where we had a Brady LS2000 wire
labeler. So long as the supplies were fresh it was great.
In the storage unit I have a Brady TLS2200. Supplies are expensive, but it works reasonably well. Unfortunately the battery
is shot (gotta replace that).
It seems to me that as cheap as the Brother P-Touch type labelers have gotten that there might be some product by (Brady|Dymo|Brother|etc) that everyone uses and recommends these days which is (a) cheap enough that they can be deployed en masse rather than treated as a scarce resource, (b) hopefully runs on standard (such as AAA) battery types, and (c) has reasonably priced supplies.
Labeling cables is mostly what I'm interested in. The el-cheapo p-touch seems adequate to putting hostnames on machines.
Thoughts?
P-Touch with TZe tapes for me. I have stuff on the roof labeled with
TZe tape and they still look new after about a year of exposure Disclaimer: I'm in the high desert.
~Seth