QL810W Electronic Labelling Sy

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I received this product for free from Brother in exchange for my honest opinion/review of the product. I have never used a wireless printer until now. Wow, it makes a huge difference. The label printer is amazing. I love being able to print labels while I am eating my lunch. It prints very quickly. I take a bathroom break and when I come back, the labels are already printed. I loved the size of the printer. It fits very conveniently on my already cluttered desk. The LCD display is nicely backlit and easy to read. The colors are very vivid. The printer creates very professional looking labels. And the automatic cutter is a nice touch.

Early days yet (<1 week of use) however the printer has operated flawlessly so far. The setup was straight forward using the USB cable and a laptop - following the instructions it was up and running over wireless in no time. I'm using it with an iPad 2 with a Visitor app that output the badge to the printer within seconds of a Visitor signing in. The adhesive of the label is great - not too sticky to leave a residue, but sticky enough to adhere to clothes / high vis vest etc. Very happy!

The second Brother Label Printer I have purchased in the past month (other one a P Touch) both are great. This one is versatile and can produce a multitude of size and shaped labels, making it a good all rounder. The fact that it is wireless too means it can be positioned anywhere and you can also purchase a battery pack if you so wish. The problem comes when you run out of things to label and start looking for things. Haven't quite got my head around the editor software and I'm sure it does much more than I actually need, but certainly managed to find enough on line videos to get me started.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I received this product for free from Brother in exchange for my honest opinion/review of the product. After the set up, which was extremely difficult to do on my smart phone. Which I was never ever to connect WiFi to. I used my apple desk top. Once I was able to print the brothers was very easy to use and quite enjoyable. I was labeling my butt off. It is really good to label items that we have put up for later use. Also being a recording a recording studio the labels came in handy labeling cables. On the lighter side I did use the labeled to so label letters on the business and friends side. So all in all I give the brothers QW-810W a 0 for setting up on an apple smartphone. And for use and printing and labeling I give it a 9.5

The software is impossible to use and make sense of. Do not believe their claims of it being easy to use. All I want is to simply print address labels and this has 8,000 types of templates, none of them make sense. I have the continuous roll and it forces you to only be able to print one direction so its incredibly disorienting to use. Its constantly falling off the network, even with static IP, if its not off the network it claims it is in "error status" but provides ZERO information on how to resolve. Overall this totally sucks.