Press a small button on the front of the printer and a powered tray slides out, reinforcing the cyborg policeman analogy.
Paper labels feed out through a horizontal slot at the top of the front fascia, while tape feeds out vertically, lower down.Īt the back you’ll find a USB port for connection to your PC and a socket for power, which comes from a separate, kick-around-under-the-desk, black block supply.
There’s a large, blue, power light on the front and a smoked plastic dome on top, so you can see the status of your label roll. Looking like something out of RoboCop, the LabelWriter Duo sits quite high off the desk for a label printer and its two-tone metallic case is nearly all curves. The key feature of this printer, which differentiates it from most other label printers, is that it has two print heads – one for paper address-type labels and the other for more robust, plastic labelling tape.
It’s a while since we’ve looked at label printers, but the release of Dymo’s LabelWriter Duo is enough of an event in the label printing world to warrant a review.
