Dam it, its dead again!

Pierre

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• Feb 17, 2005

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I've killed an ID Pro wire marking system and now our latest IDPal is dead!

Its 18 month old and have gone through about 20 label tape cassettes.

Is there a better product for the price?

 

rsdoran

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It aint cheap
http://www.dcgraves.com/Label Printer K2500.htm

That wasnt the link I meant to post:
http://www.kroy.com/industrial/5100spec.asp

 

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Voltimus

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Pierre,

We're always having problems with the Brady products. We recently went with Kroy, they're pretty reliable and the tape cartridges are alot easier to handle (alot like a Dymo).
I'm sorry I don't have a link, but they should be easy to find...just google 'em.

 

Pierre

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Voltimus said:

We're always having problems with the Brady products...

Click to expand...

That's it with me. I fugure I spent in less than 2 years about 4 time the price of the printer in cartridges.

Whent to another local supplyer and he had a new Thomas&Bett XL-Printer thing in stock.

ID-PAl was $230 / can. and the new T&B I can get for $215 ... I'll give it a try.

The cartridge are also about $10 less.

We'll see banghead

 

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I don't know how mobile you need to be, but we still use a dot-matrix printer and label-mark software. A little less convenient, but very reliable.


Just to make you feel better:

Brady Corp.'s profits double

 

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dash

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Many times Kroy will run specials where you buy 25 cartridges you will get a free printer. Good deal.

 

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• Feb 17, 2005

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Check this out (Thomas & Betts EZL-100)

http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/453193

CB

 

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I like the Kroy because you can print about 20 tags on one "heat shrink type" ribbon and cut them off at your leisure, you don't waste every other tag to the damn Brady trying to line up to print.

 

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• Feb 18, 2005

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Funny, my IDPal is working fine. For wire marking, I use Brady Labelmark, small labels and sleeves and a thermal transfer printer. Take it with me and hook it up to the laptop. Works fine.