DYMO Label Printer, Label Writer 450 Twin Turbo, Direct Thermal Printer - Fast Printing, Home & Office Organization, Great for Labeling, Filing, Shipping, Mailing, Barcodes, and More

I just received my Twin Turbo yesterday, spent about an hour getting it working, as my Mac didn't want to acknowledge the driver. However, the tech support person I chatted with online sent me a link to a driver upgrade (which I had not found on their website, for some reason), I downloaded it, and then all was well. I was so tired of getting up, going to the printer, feeding an envelope by hand. I anticipate that this label writer will save much time and frustration. I did order full size boxes of the two label sizes I anticipated using a lot. The standard address label is a bit too long to use as a return address label, so I'll probably add a third size to the standard address lanel, and the shipping label. Having struggled to use Avery, and not needing to print a whole sheet of labels, or getting it to line up properly with the printer, it was beautiful to see this print, and see the label, as you are typing, automatically sizing the letters, and allowing incredible formatting with fonts and sizes. It couldn't have been easier to load the labels and be ready to print. Had the driver not been a problem, I could have been printing within 5 minutes, easy! 5/28/2012: I'm still in love! Just wish they made one that held three label sizes! That way I could print my return, address, and shipping labels without having to switch labels. I'm going to try the multifunction label and see if it will serve adequately as both return (the address is too long for it to look good) and address label. I don't have a negative thing to say about this product. It does what it is supposed to do, and does it well.

I run a TCG Business selling Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Lorcana cards. For the past 5 years, I had been using a Dymo 4XL and swapping label rolls everytime I needed to print return or to address labels instead of 4x6 labels. While it worked, it was inefficient. By adding this 450 Twin Turbo, I was able to have 2 printers side by side that had 3 different label sizes at the same time. This has increased my efficiency in processing orders and has been a game changer.I run return address labels in the left spool and to address labels in the right spool. The turbo speed on the To Address labels results in a quick print and has streamlined my process. This new setup has been a welcomed addition and I haven't had any issues.The one drawback I would say is that you can't label the left and right spool within the Dymo Connect software. It would be nice to know which labels I have in each for those times I forget I have the wrong spool selected, but that is feature lacking in the software and not the hardware. Other than that it's been perfect and one of the best purchases I have made.

I Just received an email from DYMO, that effective June 11, 2013, I will need to enter an activation code present on each roll of DYMO brand labels to continue using their online postage program for free. If I choose to use a third party label manufacturer, it will cost me $9.95 per month to use my printer. Way to go and ruin a great product by only making it compatible with your own seriously overpriced labels. My new advice on this product is... If you are going to use this as a printer, fine. But do NOT buy this if you are going to use it for internet postage.MY PREVIOUS REVIEW:I was quite skeptical when purchasing this product. Usually hardware that says it's PC & Mac compatible falls short on one of those platforms. Not so here... this little printer works like a charm on my iMac. It's a breeze to install, paper is easy to load, and the software is both graphically pleasing and incredibly easy to use. You can copy and paste addresses right into the program and it will check to see if it is a valid address, add the +4 to your zip codes automatically, and even print the USPS barcode on the label for faster sorting. It even integrates with Mac OS X and allows you to print labels by selecting anyone in your Mac's address book. Also, printing your own postage is a huge convenience. There is no extra cost for buying postage online, just the cost of the label, which if bought in bulk or manufactured by a third party, is really quite cheap. For the convenience of not having to go to the post office to buy stamps, the cost of the labels is a fair trade-off. It makes addressing packages and envelopes a total pleasure instead of a hassle. You can also use a USB scale to automatically calculate postage based on weight. This will calculate shipping for first class, as well as priority and express mail service. All around an excellent product and well worth the price.Two Important Tips: 1) When installing a new roll of labels, there will be some sticky residue left from the glue put there to keep the spool from unraveling. Peel off the label with the sticky stuff on it before feeding it through your printer to prevent the residue getting on the paper feed roller. If the glue gets on the roller, it is likely to cause paper jams. 2) This printer uses thermal paper, not ink. The labels are best used for shipping, or things that require temporary labeling (less than six months). These labels WILL fade after time, and will fade very quickly if left in direct sunlight or in an overly hot environment. This is not a shortcoming of this printer, but of thermal paper technology in general. If you are looking to use this for long term labeling, I would recommend using a different labeler like a Brother P-Touch.UPDATE: This first one of these worked so well at work, I have purchased a second one for home and added a USB scale to each. Very Very happy with this purchase. Highly recommended!

I was impressed from when I received it shortly after my purchase on May 6, 2014 and then sitting there between uses it failed to run the next time I needed it a year to the day after the purchase. What timing! It wouldn't print, and it wouldn't advance labels even at the buttons on the machine which will still glowing (staring at me with a "so there"). My PC incidentally (maybe related) also reported an unknown USB device. The last time I had used it, it had worked fine, so no calamity, no jam, no smoke or noise, it just quit. These have a TWO YEAR WARRANTY!I called Dymo service 877-724-8324 and was quickly helped by technical support. All I needed to do was remove both labels, then remove the power and leave it removed until the lamps out front quit glowing (maybe 20-30 seconds). I then reinserted the power and those lights came on and flashed. I was instructed to reinsert the labels first left, then right, and as I did the motors grabbed the labels and finished feeding them until the electric end of label eye detected what it needed. At that point I could now manually feed labels. So I launched the software and printed a label, it worked fine. Technical support actually had one other trick (I didn't find out what it was because I didn't need it). Effectively what I had been walked through was a reset (reboot) of the instructions on the firmware of the Dymo Twin; I'll be able to help myself if this happened again.I don't know for certain, but I think Dymo's next trick would have been a delete-reinstall of the drivers in my PC to refresh that USB device and I had actually done that as a self-help attempt before calling them. If your machine just takes a coffee break like mine did, just do the sequence in the paragraph above; that may be all you need. If that doesn't do it for you then call Dymo before messing around they may save you some time.If that hadn't worked for me they would have given me a way to get the printer back to them and they would have repaired it or sent a replacement. Great service, and I don't mind the reboot, so far it's only needed one reboot in a year so Dymo is way ahead of Microsoft.

I work at a library and my co-workers wanted to get a double label writer because we do so many different books that we had to keep changing out label. I looked at the website we use for our library supplies, Demco, it was $374.99 we couldn't justify the price, so it was placed on hold for months. I happen to search DYMO in the Amazon search bar and I saw it for $129.99. I was able to purchase all three of us one. I'm just now going on the DYMO site and it's $199.99. It's a lot cheaper then our library supplier but it was $70 higher then getting from Amazon. I saved $210 by getting it here.And of course it works well because it is the original product. Being able to just print on the label needed, and not have to take the time to change out different labels is a big time saver. I am so happy with this product. It was like Christmas for my co-workers we not longer have to spend unneeded time changing out the labels when we used the single label writer.

Excellent printer, works well and is fast, but if you want to share it on a network, it’s going to take some additional hardware and software configuration. I have Dymo (and Brother) label printers that are still going strong after years of frequent use in an office environment. You may need to clean the rollers every few years depending on use. Some of the complaints I see in the reviews may have to do with networking this and not setting the print server to have a fixed IP address. (See details on that below.) Also, there are a lot of mistaken claims that you can’t print on much-less expensive generic non-OEM labels. Not true, see details below.CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE YOU BUY A LABEL PRINTERI have managed several networked/USB thermal label printers of various brands on corporate and home networks (Mac, PC, and Linux) for about 30 years, so here’s a bit of advice on how to get the most for your money with these things. If you do not need compatibility with postage software or network ability, any good USB Brother or Dymo label printer will do, check reviews on Amazon. If you have a home or business network and would like to share a label printer with several computers, Brother has good Mac and PC compatible label printers with networking built in, but generally the hardware will cost more than buying an inexpensive USB-only label printer and connecting it to your network with a USB print server. (The IOGear GPSU21 Print Server, for example, works well on Macs and PCs but documentation is a bit poor so configuring it can be a bit tricky for non-techies; tips on that for the Dymo LabelWriters to follow below.) I’ve found the Brother network label printers are more turnkey and just work without any fussy setup.YOU DON’T NEED THIS PRINTER TO PRINT ADDRESS LABELS AND STAMPS AT THE SAME TIMEThe ads for this printer make it look like a great way to print an address label and a stamp at the same time, and it is. But you can print an address label, return address label, and stamp all at the same time with any label printer that can use the Dymo 30383 label (or better yet, the MUCH cheaper compatible from House Labels). So you can either use a much cheaper printer to do that (and only that), or use those labels with this printer and have another type of label in the other slot. House Labels Dymo 30915 (700 Endicia stamps per roll) brings he cost of the stamp label to about 0.6 cents per stamp, as opposed to 10 cents each for Avery or Dymo laser labels. That adds 21% to the cost of a 47 cent stamp!CAVEATS WHEN PRINTING POSTAGEBefore buying any label printer or labels, if you’re using or going to use postage software like Stamps.com or Endicia, check their compatibility not only with this printer, but also with the labels you’d like to use. For example, both Stamps.com (PC only) and Endicia (Mac and PC) both only print to certain labels, so check those services label compatibility for this printer.SAVE HUGE, USE COMPATIBLE LABELS, NOT OEM, BUT WATCH FOR A FEW CAVEATSYou can also save a ton of money on labels by using generic compatible labels from manufacturers like House Labels. For example, their Endicia and Stamps.com stamps thermal roll labels are 1/10 the price of the Dymo or Avery laser labels (per label), and are generally significantly less and more convenient than even generic laser labels. So compare thermal and laser labels for your needs and buy generic compatible labels, they work just as well as name brand for a fraction of the cost. Also note, you can buy “removable” and “non-removable” labels. The removable will tend to peel off over time, so if you’re labeling, for example, parts bins, you’d probably want to use the non-removable labels. I’ve seen some people think that the labels were defective because they were the removable type and not appropriate for the application.In late 2012, DYMO/Endicia implemented a new security feature to force customers to buy their relatively expensive 30915 labels. They started printing activation codes on their 30915 labels. People using the FREE DYMO/Endicia stamp printing service will be prompted to enter an activation code every 200 labels. If you are using Endicia’s FREE service, you cannot use non-OEM DYMO 30915 compatible labels. All customers with DYMO/Endicia paid subscriptions are NOT IMPACTED by these security features.POSTAGE PRINTING TIPS FOR MAC AND PCThese days it’s ridiculous to stand in line at the post office to ship stuff, even if you rarely ship things. You can print your postage or shipping labels to plain paper or labels (free from UPS and Fedex), so it’s beyond me why people would bother to stand in line. If your package(s) already have printed postage on them, you can drop off the packages at the post office counter without going through the line. For those who rarely ship, USPS.com is free, and for those who ship via USPS regularly, postage software makes the process much faster and easier. Printing postage from a web browser interface is generally significantly slower than using a desktop app, and issues with printer compatibility and formatting tend to be greater with a browser interface. So if you ship much via USPS, Stamps.com (PC only compatible), Endicia (Mac and PC compatible) are the most affordable way to go. (A little tip, Fedex and UPS free half-sheet laser labels also work with USPS shipping.) Pitney Bowes PB Smart Postage is clunky, generally more proprietary and expensive, but if you’re a high volume shipper, their hardware/software makes more sense. For higher volume shippers, ReadyCloud ReadyShipper (Mac and PC compatible) allows you to ship via USPS, Fedex, and UPS through one interface and get better pricing per shipment since they aggregate shipping.TIPS FOR CONFIGURING WITH A PRINT SERVER (Mac and PC)You do not need to buy the expensive Dymo print server to network this printer on Macs and PCs. I use the IOGear GPSU21 print server and it works fine, but the documentation is poor, so if you’re not a techie, here are some tips to get it working. Note for the instructions below, the print server should be connected to your network and powered on.The user manual doesn’t go into enough detail on how to properly configure. The print server uses DHCP (from your router or cable modem) to assign it a network IP address. The problem with this is, that address is not fixed and can change, and then your printing stops working. So you need to configure the server to have a static (fixed) IP address. To determine what address to set it to, once you have the print server connected to your network and powered on, your router or cable modem will assign it a random IP address. You can then check your router or modem configuration to find the assigned address; somewhere in the config settings you’ll find the IP address. (If this is too technical for you, get a techie to do this.) You can change the print server config to make that IP address fixed.On a PC this is fairly easy, you just follow the instructions for setting a fixed IP address during installation, an enter the device’s current IP address.On Macs, there is no IOGEar installer, so you must first configure the static IP address of the device in a browser by entering the device’s current IP address that you got from the router or modem config into a browser. That will bring up the print server’s config page. Click on the “TCP/IP” link and change the TCP/IP setting from “Automatic” to “Manual:” then you can then enter the fixed IP address. The subnet mask and gateway address should already be there, but if not, you can get it from your router or Mac OS network control panel (Apple Menu>System Preferences>Network). Click the Save button at the bottom of the screen to save the settings.Once you have the print server IP address set to fixed, you can then add the device as you would any printer via the Mac OS Printers & Scanners control panel. Go to Apple Menu>System Preferences>Printers & Scanners. Follow the instructions in the IOGear install instructions and enter the server’s fixed IP address in the “Address:” field as directed in the IOGear instructions.If you have a router or VPN modem, you may need to set port forwarding (port 631 and 9100 for this printer) to allow the printer’s data packets to travel across your network. If you have a router and don’t know what this means, get a techie to do so IF your printer doesn’t work after all other setup has been done.

We have used the printers prior to this and have been very happy with them.

The GOOD: FAST printing. Very good quality. One bay for thin (stamps) and one bay for labels is convenient and saves more time than you might believe.The BAD: On Windows machines, at random times, it will not communicate with the PC. (I have two of these, and it's not the unit. It's not related to an OS update, and I've spent a significant amount of time with DYMO. The solution is never the same each time this happens. Things that have worked in the past. Change the USB Port, power down the PC, then power it back on. Sometimes it's the order in which devices are powered (Printer or PC); sometimes it's uninstalling and reinstalling drivers. Sometimes, it's unplugging the machine for an hour. As I said, it's difficult to pin it down. Also, the printer will work perfectly for months. You'll convince yourself that you're being too critical, and then it will refuse to work. I've owned these for years and have three different DYMOs (two 450 Twin Turbos and one single-bay). And they've all done this with Windows 10 and Win 11. Now that newer machines require Dymo labels to print (chip inside roll), I don't know if I would recommend buying one of these.

Me encantó, fantástica!

It’s very good clear print

Excellent product at a great price.

Got this for a very good deal, prints great, easy software. No complaints at all.

Muy buen producto, aunque el cable es americano