[149911] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Thu Feb 16 19:18:44 2012
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:17:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201202170006.q1H06tFK046467@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I hate all the newer Brother labelmakers I've seen - pretty much for
> this
> very reason. I've never found a good method for quickly and reliably
> removing the backings for them.
The one thing I absolutely cannot stand about all the low-end brothers is t=
he amount of waste they generate. When printing single labels, they spit o=
ut a useless 3/4 inch tab that you have to hit the 'cut' lever for. This t=
ab is the tape that was wasted pushing out the last label. I would estimat=
e this consumes about 20% of the tape on these printers - perhaps less if y=
ou chain print or have longer labels. The PT-1830 and PT-1880 are good exa=
mples of this insanity.
