Printers
Label printers for the lab
What each printer is genuinely good at, and where it will let you down.
Every label printer gets the size wrong in its own way and none of them warn you: a roll printer scales to whatever media its driver believes is loaded, a sheet printer shrinks the whole grid to fit its imageable area. These pages cover what each one is good at, where it will let you down in a lab, and how to get a true-size label out of it.
- Brother P-touch for lab labelsA P-touch prints on a continuous laminated tape. That gives it the best solvent resistance of any cheap label printer and the worst fit to a fixed label size.
- Dymo LabelWriter for lab labelsA LabelWriter is the fastest way to get a label onto a bottle, and the wrong way to get one onto anything that will be frozen or wiped.
- Brady labels for laboratory useBrady sells into industries where a label failure is a safety incident. That is why the materials cost what they do, and why some laboratory uses genuinely need them.