After turning on the printer, the screen of the printer keeps flashing, and you cant use it at all!

Works well and alot of features. Just waste alot of the paper in each cut. I tried messing with the features and nothing stops that extra blank space of no print. But it works.

This label maker has so many great features its hard to list them all. Some that were important to me: 1): Its rechargeable. Thermal label printers typically take a lot of battery power. With rechargeable batteries you wont be going through batteries every couple months. You can also just plug it in if need be. 2): It uses readily available Brother P-Touch cartridges. 3): It can print flag and winding labels. These are great for cables. I use flag labels on the many cables I have in my desk drawer so I dont have to pick them up and put on my reading glasses to see what kind of end they have (Mico-USB, USB-C, Proprietary, etc.). I also have an electronics panel in my house where my tv cable and network cable hubs are located. Winding labels are a must have for the 35+ cables in there. There are also lots of printing options which I like. They screen is backlit however the keys are not. You cant adjust the screen brightness but you can adjust the contrast. There is room for improvement however. You cant adjust the spacing of the letters on the display. If you look at the first picture I posted, youll see the screen of the label maker and the label I printed right below it. The label was printed with out of the box defaults. Normal font, normal spacing. You can only see 6 letters on the screen. I would prefer there was less space between the letters on the screen. You cant adjust it as far as I know. The second thing I would have loved to see is a case! This is a great label printer and it deserves a case to match its quality. I dont like having to put everything back in the box when Im done. I could leave it out of the box of course but then it is prone to scratching or other damage, and Id still need a place to keep the charger, manual and extra cartridges. The manual (a big fold-out) isnt bad but it doesnt explain everything. For example, it has a setting for density but it doesnt explain what that is or what it does. The second picture I attached shows various labels. In the order they appear from top to bottom: 1): Default print. Normal font (large) and spacing. 2): Same as above except Bold Font was selected. 3): Bold font and narrow kerning (letter width spacing). There are 3 choices of kerning - Normal, narrow and wide. Normal is a little too wide for me and in narrow mode, sometimes the letters are touching. I wish it had more graduations like a 1 to 5 scale instead of just the 3 options. 4): Each time you print, a piece of label 7/8 is cut before the label is printed. Not sure why it has to do that. Its a little wasteful. You cant really see it in the picture, but the labels dont cut at a perfect 90 degrees. If you really look at it, you can see the top left of the label sticks out a little more than the bottom left. Likewise, the bottom right of the label sticks out a little more than the top right of the label. Not a big deal to me but if you tend to lean towards OCD it could bug you.

I was impressed with the amount of features and settings, icons, font sizes, fonts, spacing, etc… this wound up being much more useful than I had thought it would be. I got it for labeling the cases on my CNC bits and the settings are allowing me to put more details than I had thought I’d be able to. The functionality is similar to that which you’d get in Microsoft Word. Good stuff!

To its credit this label maker is very well built and has an abundance of features. If youve got lots of time to explore the features without guidance from the owners manual then you may eventually find yourself very happy with this products capabilities in the end. I like exploring; I spent my whole professional career doing research. But when I buy a product I expect an owners manual that guides me through quickly, and comprehensively, so that I can spend my valuable time on other more important things. If you acquire this label maker do the world a favor and post an on-line video that walks people through: creation, naming and management of: files, paragraphs, pages, frames and labels. Theyre all mentioned in the way too short owners manual, and none of them is given adequate treatment. For instance: What does this label maker mean by paragraph? How is a page different from a paragraph? Can pages have multiple paragraphs? A file can contain up to 200 labels. How many paragraphs can one contain? Pages? What exactly is a frame? Can a frame contain pages? Can a page contain frames? I have been unable to answer any of these questions, despite reading the poorly written manual three times and searching the Web. I come at this label maker from over ten years of owning a Brother P-Touch. Nothing from that experience helps me answer the kinds of questions Ive posed above. Ive searched the Web for help with this label maker. The number of hits for Pristar is woefully small. No videos. No manufacturer Web page. Nothing to help. Its not a Qwerty keyboard, as others have noted. Im not dinging it for that. There are more serious issues here. Finally I would say beware of reviews that are essentially: Oooooo, cool new toy. with no additional helpful details. If you acquire this label maker youre in for a significant learning curve (and may not get all of your questions answered despite that effort), unless you find you dont really want much beyond simple one-off label printing, in which case there are cheaper options available.

The unit is very portable, it has a rechargeable battery and option to put in regular batteries, also charges and works with a power adapter. Prints very nice with optional fonts and images. Able to store some labels into memory. All very nice with a comprehensive manual. This unit is as the vendor describes.

It is a good label maker although it is quite large and heavy so depending on your application, this may be an issue. Primarily I use it for labeling my electronic devices as my handwriting is utter garbage otherwise. I have not messed with many of the settings for this, but thankfully the included manual does a pretty good job of helping you figure things out. My only minor gripe is that before it cuts a new label, it feeds out and cuts ~3/8 of tape to make sure everything works and to zero things out. A little annoying/wasteful if you make a lot of individual labels. If you do a string of labels, say 3 of the same kind, it only does it at the start. Overall it is a good label maker and I have no major complaints with it. For what I am doing it gets the job done.

So far I’m loving it. I like the lit screen and the fact that it comes with a charger and tape. It also winds the tape so you don’t have to. I would recommend

Description for this label maker clearly states that it has a qwerty keyboard, but unfortunately thats not the case. The keyboard has the alphabet in chronological order (A B C D... Etc) which sucks but its not a fatal flaw. This label maker would have been perfect if it had a qwerty keyboard. I really like the auto cutting feature, which automatically trims the extra label length you get anytime you start a new label. Its the only label maker I have with this feature. It also comes with a lithium ion battery! So you dont need extra batteries to use it, although it does have space to use 6x AAA batteries just in case(?). Charger is included. Another nice thing about this label maker is the bright and easy to read screen. Great for those with poor eyesight . Also, the menu is much easier to navigate than most label makers at this price. For example, its really easy to figure out how to print multiple copies of the same label, or how to print several different labels at a time. Thats because each time you press print youre prompted with a screen that asks if you want to print multiples or just a a single lable. Easy! It uses regular brother tze label tape which is easy to find and super affordable. You dont have to tighten the tape before installing it since the printer does it for you, which is another nice feature. Overall, great label maker despite the false advertising. A qwerty keyboard would have made it perfect!

This thing seems to do it all for labels. It’s pretty big and bulky but with having a rechargeable battery, space for regular batteries & the tape, I can see why. We’re fixing to have a garage sale so this will save a lot of time being able to print a lot of labels. It has a lot of options for frames, multi lines per label, fonts, pictures, etc. just wish I could figure out why it cuts off a little bit before each label is printed(wasted Material especially, about half an inch or so).