[155699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Tue Aug 21 21:47:37 2012
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <503435EE.6030105@rollernet.us>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:46:46 -0700
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I bought the Brady BMP21 handheld labeler from Frys about a month ago.
It takes 6x AA batteries i believe. You can buy the power cable and
case for it if you want. I love it so far.
-mike
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 21, 2012, at 18:29, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> 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
>
