Thursday, April 10, 2008

The label maker cost

In the chapter about getting your supplies and workspace setup, we are told to get a label maker. It is suggested we get a Brother label maker that plugs into the wall. (You don't want to be caught needing to make a label and find that your batteries are dead).

I asked my wife to do a little research to find out what would be most cost effective. The current label maker we are considering is the Brother TL-1280. We are having a hard time finding a local store to purchase one because everyone was out.

We did some research online to see what the cost of the labels will be. For 26' we figure that you get 130 labels or so. (We read that the label maker "wastes" 1" to 2" during each print.) The average cost is $18. We found that you can get them from Costco online for $11 or from EBay 2 for $20. So for full price, you are paying about 14 cents per label. At deal price you are paying about 8 cents per label.

1 comment:

Chris von Schweinitz said...

I have found having the label maker amazingly helpful, especially for the feeling of being organized. Keep away from the children! One day they used an entire cartridge labeling everything in site including each other.