Product ReviewsBrother PT-1230PC Label Thermal Printer

Small, light wieght, battery operated label printer with no frills.

This printer was purchased to be used in areas with limited or no power available. Its compact size and regular shape makes it easily portable. This printer a little slower than other thermal printers by this manufacturer, but the print quality is comparable. The printer has built-in memory for a lite version of the label design software, making it truely "plug and play" without leaving software on the computer. It can also be used with an easily downloadable full version with more features. Both the lite and full versions of the software are very user frindly, what you see is what you get. This is, without a doubt, a "no frills" printer. It has limited tape sizes available, a manual cutter, and does not come with a power adapter. Dispite its limitations, it is still an excellent value.Read full review...

Not what I thought.

There is a lot of waste when printing. The more you have to print on the label the smaller the print is. It takes six batteries. There is no AC adapter that comes with it. It works good it's a good product but it's just not what I thought it was and the labels are small.Read full review...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: vickievolk

So cute, stylish, excellent print quality, work from LINUX, must have item!

I use it for technical and electronic labeling. I'm not have Windows OS, so i'm print from Linus OS using free `BLABEL` software. The unique feature is the labels easy resist to washing with alcohol and even acetone! It is important in hardware design, but only original Brother TZ laminated tapes has this feature. The disadvantage is non-standard external power jack, which has not only rare voltage 7..9V, but also reversed polarity! Power supply do not comes with unit, it powered from AAA batteries out-of-box. It is the reason why my "features" rating not excellent. Be careful when buy AC power supply for it.
One more problem is storing spare tapes, you will have many, when you need to print in different colours. Tapes are dust sensitive. I hope Brother will develop a separate stylish box for 5 to 10 tapes, or even tape kits may be sold already in box.
Overall: MUST HAVE item for engineers, scientists, developers and hardware testers.
Thank you!Read full review...

Easy to use. Lightweight.

I have several label printers, including brother's handheld
laminated label printers. (Handheld one's problem is always
a typing error using a built-in keyboard.) Thus, using a PC to
type is much easier especially what you see is what you can print
feature via P-Touch Editor.

CONNECTIVITY:
64BIT WINDOWS 7(ULTIMATE) USB connection
Battery/Power Supply
6xAAA batteries needed unless you use
an AC adapter.
AC adapter ( I am using the old AC brick used for other brother
labeler.)
Software:
P-touch Editor
Tape:
TZ laminated tapes
Due to the machine's design, there is a waste of tapes every time you print
something. The tape cartridge is expensive (especially considering the
wastage) However, it is a thermal printing, thus, no ink cartridge is needed.Read full review...

Awesome Printer - Wasteful of Label Tape

Let me start by saying I really like this label printer. The reason for the 3/5 starts is that the program tends to lock-up when doing larger runs (say 8 labels in a row) and I lose my information having to start over. However, the biggest con is that it doesn't print very close to the edge. I have to cut off about 3/4" of the blank label on both ends before I can use them; this is extremely wasteful and makes it much more expensive to operate.Read full review...

PERFECT PRODUCT

PERFECT FOR PRINTING LABELS FOR CLIENT FOLDERS!!! EASY SETUP EASY USING SELF EXPLAINING!!! HAS MANY FONTS TO CHOOSE FROM AND GIVES YOU THE FREEDOM OF NOT HAVING SOFTWARE ON COMPUTER TAKEN UP SPACE ON HARD DRIVE. I LOVE THIS LITTLE LABEL PRINTER AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE NEEDING TO LABEL BUSINESS THINGS OR CHILDRENS NOTEBOOKS, FOLDERS, AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES. WOULD ALSO HELP ORGANIZE CONTAINERS IN STORAGE AND MANY MANY MANY OTHER THINGS!!!Read full review...

Excellent!

This is great, and even better if you go ahead and buy the power converter so you don't have to run it on batteries. The power converter is listed separately and is worth the money.

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: best_buy

Great product, easy to use

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: zachareave_0

Label maker for folders

It was as advertised. The person was easy to work with. No problems.

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: zen.trader

Good Label Maker

Works great. Easy to setup.

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: momenwow