ttj - Tom Jones

Another TZe-541 cartridge was just wasted by a PT-7500, same as the last one.  It went the same way: the feed worked fine, the initial cut worked fine, then as it printed nothing emerged, and it mangled up inside the machine. Faulty machine, or bad batch of label cartridges?  Don't know, but either way this is a triumph for the Label Waste Engineering department at Brother.  Give these psychopaths and MBA. I've just placed an order for two more cartridges at 39 GBP(2024).  Well done, marketing and waste engineering department.  Until I find a better labelling system.

Another 15 GBP or so in revenue for Brother's TZ Tape division, well done. This time, it's 18mm black on blue.

My favourite label printer is the Brother PT-7600.  Newer models seem engineered to waste tape, and to waste time. The PT-7600 is still pretty good at wasting tape.   The TZ tape cartridges are taken by many Brother label printers.  They come in widths from 6mm (or 3.5mm, sort of) to 24mm.  Some machines accept up to 18mm. In 2017, in Japan, I bought a couple of Brother TZ label printers.  They wasted tape in crazy ways, like reverting to annoying defaults of wasting tape at the slightest excuse.  I should have done a detailed look, but they were annoying enough that they had to go in the electronic waste box, and on and away from there.  Every so often I buy a second-hand PT-7600 on ebay. Small offcuts of wastage are produced by the feed thing, which seems to be a limitation of the cartridge format.  You can get your label now by feeding, but then an offcut is produced before the next print.  Or you can minimise label wastage, but you d...