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RE: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. Benjamin Kessler)
Tue Aug 21 23:16:50 2012
From: "R. Benjamin Kessler" <Ben.Kessler@zenetra.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:16:14 +0000
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We use the Brady IDXPERT label makers to create the self-laminating cable l=
abels and Brother P-Touch to label devices, etc.
The Brady label printers and supplies are a bit more expensive than the Bro=
ther but it's worth it for the cable labels.
The Brother supplies are available at most office supply stores so you don'=
t have issues with running out of label tape in the middle of a project; se=
veral different colors are available, etc.
Both machines run in AA batteries (or AC wall-wort)
There are lots of cartridge options for the Brady printers that we haven't =
explored yet just because we've been using the Brother printers for far lon=
ger. =20
This dual-box approach has been working for us for many years but if I had =
to pick only one, I'd probably go with the Brady.
http://www.bradyid.com/bradyid/pfpv/Printers-and-Label-Makers~Portable-Labe=
l-Printers~IDXPERT%E2%84%A2-Labeling-Printers.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:rs@seastrom.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:11 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?
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 t=
hat).
It seems to me that as cheap as the Brother P-Touch type labelers have gott=
en that there might be some product by (Brady|Dymo|Brother|etc) that everyo=
ne uses and recommends these days which is (a) cheap enough that they can b=
e deployed en masse rather than treated as a scarce resource, (b) hopefully=
runs on standard (such as AAA) battery types, and (c) has reasonably price=
d supplies.
Labeling cables is mostly what I'm interested in. The el-cheapo p-touch se=
ems adequate to putting hostnames on machines.
Thoughts?
-r
