Itari Thermal Label Printer, 4x6 Shipping Label Printer for Shipping Packages & Small Business, Desktop Label Printer

I needed a new shipping label printer to save time and this one caught my eye. First impressions are great! It was super easy to set up on my desk and I was able to get going in minutes. The unit prints many labels quickly and legibly—I was surprised at how quiet it was! Best of all, the refills are inexpensive and available at most office supply stores and online retailers. This printer is definitely a time saver over the traditional printing and taping method I had been using to send out my shipments. I will never go back and would recommend this printer to others.

Ive been on the fence for YEARS regarding buying a thermal label printer. I do a lot of shipping and for years i have been using my laser printer to print, then cut ten tape a label, i had gotten pretty good at it and with a Guillotine Trimmer didnt take long to cut to dimension and then tape it. If youre still on the fence, pull the trigger. I know its a pretty evident conclusion and i sound ignorant just by saying it, but its almost a joy to print, pull the backing and stick it. Voila! The printer itself seems well built, it is quiet and its capable of holding the roll inside the machine which was a selling point for me, as i wasnt too excited about having to find room to hold either a stack or a roll behind the printer and taking more desk room as i am limited on my home office desk. It prints quietly (its a thermal printer, duh!) and the print quality/resolution is very good. It included a small quantity 4x6 label roll which was great for testing it and printing some labels. It included the drivers in an USB drive which was a really nice touch, setup was a breeze with its included USB cable. One thing i am not too happy about is that every time i turn the printer on, the printer wastes a label measuring the type of label it has loaded so it ends up wasting one label, this is remedied by not turning the printer off (i dont think standby uses much electricity) but i am concerned that leaving it on would shorten its life as happened with another printer i owned that ended up having a dead power supply by it. Other than that its been a great little printer, everything points at the fact that i will be using this for years and years to come, and i recommend you this one if youre looking to save desk room, printing quietly, fast and efficient.

If you like wasting shipping labels this is the printer for you. Any time you print a label it prints and then will give an error. Lift the lid and close it error goes away and it will reprint your label just fine. Ive cleaned it thinking it could be a dirty sensor, no luck. Just get a Dymo.

Easy to use, seems good print quality good for small business.

Overall, this printer is solid. One nice feature is that your labels load on the inside of the unit (using rolled labels) so you dont need to consume extra desk space storing flat labels (as you would need to do with something like a Rollo). Although, I do believe there is an option to use flat labels as well with this unit if needed. Physical set up is straightforward. Install power supply & USB cable, power printer on & wait for driver prompt. Printer detected under Windows 10 via USB, but will also need a driver (ships with printer & also available from manufacturer support site). Once installed, the unit is really wanting to use 4x6 labels out of the box. However, you can also use much smaller labels (IE: 1.25 x 2.5) with some tuning & tweaking. This is where A LOT of time was spent. In fact, I contacted support & the agent said that the printer only works with 4x6 labels. I had to let him know that the Amazon offer page has 2 graphics stating the exact opposite! The unit CAN print many different sizes, but again, trial & error is involved. Also, if youre using this printer for Amazon labels with third party software (IE: Accelerlist) it WILL work. However, you will need to mess with the printer settings on the Windows side AND on the Accelerlist side. This is required to get the label to line up properly & fit all required text legibly on label. However, once all of the tedious setup is complete, this printer does print fast & accurately.

This label printer was easy to set up. It comes with a partial roll of labels, the power adapter, USB cord, an adapter from USB for a MAC computer, and a USB thumb drive with the drivers and other stuff. I installed the driver for Windows and the D520 Printer was ready to go. Make sure you see this printer in Windows in Printers & Scanners, or when you go to print a label, look for that printer to print your label to. There’s a sample shipping label you can open in a PDF reading program, and then you can print the label to the D520 printer. The sample label is a typical Postal or UPS type label, and it printed perfectly.

I cant say why exactly, but I just dont love it like I have loved my Dymos in the past. Part of it is the lack of dedicated rich software, and part of it is that is a bit bigger/heavier duty than the Dymo-- and for many people that wouldnt be a bad thing! I dont have anything particularly bad about this printer other than I dont love it. Maybe thats my bad, and not the printer.

I actually have the one that looks exactly the same but from a different brand. So I knew what I was getting exactly. Compared to my other long rectangular shaped thermal shipping label printer, this one is rather cute and more tidy in the open place because it holds the rolled thermal paper inside rather than out in the open. If youve ever tried any of thermal shipping label printer, this one is not hard to set up. If its your first time, just follow the instruction step by step so as not to waste any of your time. I think if you mail out or ship stuff more than handful time a month, having this kind of label printer will save you some money down the road. I dont think I can even think about going back to using the normal printer...oh how much I have waste no the ink alone!!! This one does the decent job again as long as you want to print to your shipping label good enough to be scanned ! This one is actually set up at my sister in laws work space at her home, and she just said she hasnt had any issue whatsoever over the last 6 months!

For the price that they want for this thing it should run like a well oiled machine. Instead its the most problematic piece of crap that Ive ever dealt with. It doesnt detect its OWN labels let alone outside labels. When it finishes printing it doesnt end it with the perforation where you can easily tear the lable off, no, it leaves it in inside the printer which makes you pull it, which then makes the printer think that it is jammed and it errors out. You can temp clear the error by turning it off and on. But as soon as you print again it will error again as you try to get the label out. Going through their process of calibration helps nothing...since it cant seem to detect any label beginning or end. I went through their whole roll of labels trying to make the stupid thing work right. I finally got it to work though I dont know how, it just decided to behave all of a sudden after I pulled it OUT of the garbage can to give it one more try to be really really sure. Oh and on the roll holder I changed the smooth part of the side pieces from facing outward to facing inward...though I dont know why that would help, it was fitting fine the other way and the roll was rolling...shrugs.

***Update #2 - After a year of owning this printer and using it a few times a week, the print is coming out super light - almost unreadable. I have cleaned the printer head, adjusted settings etc. But no joy. For that reason I am changing my rating to 3 stars. ***Update - I figured out how to make a label without making a PDF. It works great. Though, I know this printer accepts a variety of labels, I do wish I knew what brand labels they included with the unit as they work perfectly. Now that I have worked with it awhile, I realize that every time I turn it on it pushes out a blank label. I am not sure why it does that. But I use the blanks to cover addresses etc. old boxes I reuse for shipping.*** Every time I buy replacement ink for my regular printer it seems to get more expensive. So I decided to pick up this thermal printer to use for labels I make for packages I ship. I picked this one from many because I really like how compact it is yet it holds a roll of labels inside - no fussing with a separate label holder. To my surprise, the directions are very good. I was able to set it up with my MAC quickly. My first round I had some trouble printing so I shut everything down and restarted and that fixed it. For USPS labels, I had to download a PDF of the label, then crop it and then run it. Once I got the hang of it - it was pretty easy. I am super pleased with this and feel it will save me a lot of money. It comes with a roll of blank labels so tha was nice too!