Dymo LabelWriter 400 Turbo: Product Review

Dymo Label Writer 400 Turbo is a label printer for a PC computer or a Mac. The 400 Turbo is a small compact printer that hooks up to a computer via a USB port to print all kinds of labels. I purchased the Dymo Label Writer 400 Turbo with the intent of printing postage labels.

One of my hobbies is selling collectibles on eBay. I do have a full time 9 to 5 job so it is difficult to run to the post office during normal operating hours to ship off my sold items. In order to save time and money by not having to make trips to the post office on my lunch hour, I have made full use of Paypal's postage printing feature. The tool is very easy, especially if the buyer pays through Paypal. If you aren't familiar with the Paypal shipping tool, it is just another way to print postage through the internet. Since I have a standard laser printer, I have been printing the postage labels on an 8 X 10 sheet of white paper, cutting out the label, and then taping the label onto the package. Pretty easy but not very cost effective. Ink cartridges are very expensive and I was averaging about sixty dollars a month on ink. Besides the expensive ink, cutting and taping the labels was very time consuming, especially on busy nights when had over 30 packages to mail so I decided to find a better way to print labels.

After a little research on the internet I decided to purchase the Dymo LabelWriter 400 Turbo from Labelcity.com. The 400 Turbo cost $109.96. A package of 100 labels is $12.30. I thought that sounded very reasonable and I was willing to give the product a try, especially since the Dymo LabelWriter 400 Turbo does not use ink or toner. The printer is a direct thermal printer that does not use ink or toner. Instead, the printer uses heat from the thermal print head to print on special thermal labels.

Labelcity.com shipped the product out very quickly with a very reasonable shipping charge. The installation took less then 30 minutes with a CD installation disk with easy walk through instructions. The only difficult step was changing my settings at paypal.com. I had to download a free java application in order for Paypal to recognize my new label printer.