[155698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue Aug 21 21:29:52 2012
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:29:18 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1T3zTB-000Gol-6P@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/21/12 6:10 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Many moons ago I worked in a place where we had a Brady LS2000 wire
> labeler. So long as the supplies were fresh it was great.
>
> In the storage unit I have a Brady TLS2200. Supplies are expensive,
> but it works reasonably well. Unfortunately the battery is shot
> (gotta replace that).
>
> It seems to me that as cheap as the Brother P-Touch type labelers have
> gotten that there might be some product by (Brady|Dymo|Brother|etc)
> that everyone uses and recommends these days which is (a) cheap enough
> that they can be deployed en masse rather than treated as a scarce
> resource, (b) hopefully runs on standard (such as AAA) battery types,
> and (c) has reasonably priced supplies.
>
> Labeling cables is mostly what I'm interested in. The el-cheapo
> p-touch seems adequate to putting hostnames on machines.
>
> Thoughts?
>
P-Touch with TZe tapes for me. I have stuff on the roof labeled with TZe
tape and they still look new after about a year of exposure Disclaimer:
I'm in the high desert.
~Seth
