Brother P-Touch PT1290DT Labelmaker Desktop

Our Review

Desktop label printers are very popular among the small business owners. In fact most of them cannot do without it for marketing purposes. Especially during the last decade the device has become extremely popular. With more and smaller business owners carrying out their business from home, desktop labeling machines have become the choice sparing them the trouble of obtaining custom made envelops through outsourcing. Entrepreneurs looking for custom as well as affordable way of distributing printed communications to customers are well aware of the benefits of the desktop label printers. It is an accepted device for huge savings on business communications and catering to such requirements of small business owners manufacturers are coming up with qualitative products. An example is the product of well known brand, the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop that has been manufactured aiming the target group of small and medium entrepreneurs.

Product Overview
With the features that are user friendly and a price that is affordable, the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop can produce durable and laminated labels in just seconds. It also offers great deal of versatility for the user with three print sizes and nine print styles and the best part of it is the ease of use of the machine that makes it favorite of many.

Technical Features
Main technical features of the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop are as follows.

• It is one of the most stylish desktop label maker devices around;
• It is also one of the desk-tidy organizers;
• It prints hard wearing labels and the sizes can go up to 12mm in width;
• User gets storage locations for three favorite labels;
• The keyboard is convenient using as it is of the standard QWERTY style; and
• It has as many as nine printing styles supporting innovativeness in the user.

Other Details
Some other details of the product are as follows.

• Weight of the item is 485 grams;
• When the product is boxed, the weight goes up to 907 grams but that is obviously due to the packaging;
• The manufacturers and providers give free delivery at some specific locations that can be seen in the terms and conditions as well as there help page where delivery destinations are specified;
• Rates for the delivery to destinations other than specified sites are also available on the website of the provider;

General Features
One of the good things about the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop is that it is designed to accommodate all the requirements of the users so far as labeling is concerned. The label maker is simple to use and since it is a desktop device it does not require much portability except in case of change of locations. However, the device is still lightweight at approximately a pound or 485 grams and can be handled pretty easily. Moreover, the labels created by the machine are crystal clear and excellent in quality and generated without much fuss. The design is such that the desk organizer can be put on the desk quite comfortably and it is also space economic so that the user’s desk doe not get cluttered and remains as tidy and clutter free as it was before installation of the desktop labeling machine.

Downside
Despite all its user friendly features, the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop has not been able to generate favorable response from the users like many other “Brother” brand products. Overall rating by users given to the product comes only to 40% satisfaction in comparison to other products having much better ranking in the user assessments. Some of the major complaints of the users have been as follows.

• The label maker wastes a lot of ribbon as for every label printing some ribbons are wasted, at least on one end;
• In addition; the user has to manually trim that end with scissors;
• There are other products that adjust the length of the labels to the length of the text for printing which the Brother P Touch PT1290DT Label Maker Desktop is not able to do.

Unfortunately, the Brother Support team does not indicate any way out for such problems.