Dymo S0717930 Omega Home Embossing Label Maker

OMG- seriously this little gasket is freaking awesome. I love, love , love it!First off it needs no batteries no ink no charging and most important it’s non fricking digital!! Yeah!! It’s a sheer delight to operate a small gasket that works so great and is simple to use and does what it says it does- I have used the expensive digital dymos and to be very honest, I much prefer this manual retro one.First off, to find the larger set of caps on the digital dymo was near impossible and took me over an hour to work out( having no instructions)! And found by sheer luck, not easy to replicate in a hurry, plus it requires ink and to be charged up :( admittedly it prints them quick once you have typed up your label but I think this manual dymo is just as quick and what’s more the labels look a trillion times better and look more authentic than the printed type.There are a couple of things to note- the instructions are very basic inside the packaging label and gives no clue as it’s just pictures. But seriously with a bit sense it’s not that difficult, just select letter and punch! I had to work out with a practice run, never having used one before that if you don’t add a space at the end of your text before you snip the label off by using the scissor icon then it will cut the label off right at the end of the last letter. So, I add a space before cutting but that’s my preference ! The space selection are the bits on either side of the scissor icon.That’s it that’s the only downfall I could find. Also just maybe be careful when peeling the backing off as I bent some labels in haste which leaves a white crease mark but really it’s minor and was my fault rather than the device itself. Nothing to do with this gadget. Seriously- ditch the digital in this increasingly digital world and rely on this lovely gadget which will still keep going when all the computers have died and will help you get organised. Honestly, what’s not to love about it? Can’t think why, I never bought one before…Update: make sure when you cut label with scissor icon you press firmly and decisevly. I ensure I press trigger firmly when embossing the letter too. The hardest thing I found using this , is just remember where you are in spelling your word. If you get distracted you could easily forget the next letter you are to select. However it keeps the grey cells working unlike digital dummies we rely on so much now.:)

Construction is a little cheap but it's £8 and as such I'm fine taking a hit in build quality. Can be prone to jamming so I would recommend being somewhat gentle, other than that great for purpose, currently being used to label plugs.

I came very close to returning this item - the fact that I'd have to pay to get it collected (and that I wanted tidy labels) had me look again for explanations.If, like me, you get your shiny new label embosser out of the (sharp, unhelpfully difficult) packaging and find it isn't making any legible letters at all, and then - like me - you struggle for an hour, squeezing the trigger hard enough to hurt your hand because that's what another reviewer had said to do, and then give up and search for the packaging to make a return...STOP RIGHT THERE!There are two wheels - the wheel with the letters and another notched wheel underneath it. To make legible letters, align the scissor icon on the top wheel to the un-notched gap on the bottom wheel. Until this is specifically pointed out to you, the stupid Spot The Difference sticker the company have clumsily shoved onto the packaging won't help you at all (but that's what it's trying to tell you).Similarly, if your machine isn't advancing the tape or cutting it effectively, this is why. Once you've put the scissors over the gap, you'll find you may need to calibrate it by tiny amounts either way to make it really work perfectly, but that's the essential trick that should sort you out.And it's such a shame the company doesn't put any effort into making this little trick clear because - all this aside - it really is a nifty little gadget that makes lovely labels once it's all set up.But the frustration of having to research and just get lucky with right youtube video to get it to work at all - along with the really nasty packaging and stupidly unhel[pful label - really damages my impression of this product, especially as it all could have been such a good experience with something as simple as clearer instructions for aligning the wheels printed on the back of the loading instruction sheet.All that said, hopefully others will not have to spend so much time being frustrated and just get on with having a lovely little label maker for their projects :)

Good old-fashioned label maker!

used this Dymo for printer to print three items of around 8/10 words and it them failed. will no longer inprint and move the tape along or cut . extremely disappointing and totally unreliable and uselessI need to find a similar product that is more reliable. i even bought extra tapes to use and never finished the one that came with the product before it failed. I would NOT recommend this product and only wish I could return and get a refund!!!

The first couple of goes work well, but I found that I've now got bits of the tape stuck inside of the device preventing me from using it. So I've learnt that removing the tape after each use and going through each character and either pressing the trigger or shaking the device helps to remove them. But it's still a pain.I don't know if I'd buy it again, because of this. I don't know what I'm doing wrong to cause these loose bits of tape, as it's quite straight forward. Maybe the design could be changed for this?