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Hi, I’m looking for recommendations on colour label printers If anyone has one? It’s for various small colour labels for back of frames, and a number of other products so only needS to do small labels.

Thanks

You could just use any colour printer and get some A4 sheets with self adhesive stickers already in it & various sizes are available (if that sentence makes sense). Most will have a template that you can use in Word etc

Avery Labels has a stand alone (free) software package.

https://www.avery.com/software/design-and-print/

Would you consider the possibilty of printing the label and the customer invoice by using the same piece of paper for both. Printing all of the labels from a single sheet full of labels is supposed to be problematic, as repeatedly feeding the same sheet of labels through is not usually a particularly successful thing to do.

" repeatedly feeding the same sheet of labels through is not usually a particularly successful thing to do."

I've never had a problem doing that & it's a fairly regular thing I would do - but I'm not sure if I'm following you correctly though. I only put the sheet of labels through once, the entire sheet is printed in the one pass

I used to do that, just print a fulle sheet of labels with my details on, but found if you put a full colour background on, like say blue, then I was replacing the ink cartdriges often , now mine are white bacground with just the letters coloured plus my logo

Printing the entire sheet in one pass is not a problem at all. I've got a rool of labels printed by a lable printing company, which works o.k., but if you don't use them up in a reasonable time the self adhesive starts to lose it's stickiness. There have been times when Iprint my own labels using a black and white laser printer and back the labels with 2 inch wide double sided tape, which works and does not look to bad.

As time goes of it seems to make more sense to print you own labels, 1 sheet full at a time. This has been what I had been doing prior to my stroke, but I think that the adhesive on these labels has lost it's effectiveness, during the last couple of years. I expect that I will need to buy some new labels, before I am able to re-open my shop.

I only print 1 sheet at a time, with 21 labels per sheet, so will use them up within the week

Indeed - I've learnt my lesson with using coloured stickers

However, for my 'back of frame' stickers I get someone else to do them now - works out far cheaper! There's a guy across that the road from me that does signage - he can do an entire roll on self adhesive material (something like 6ft wide & whatever deep - but I only get a few feet at a time) filled for only a few ££.

It's not what you know

Your work can also be done by a simple printer named as thermal shipping label printer which is more simple and easy to use. You should also try this.

For many years I've used a Brother QL-560 label printer. It only prints in Black but is great for what I need. You can get different size rolls of paper.

Use a multifunctional printer and then make sure it has excellent after-sales service. For example, the printer I bought has a MUNBYN warranty service of eighteen months, and during those eighteen months, you can simply ask them to fix whatever technical problems or whatever parts are damaged.