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Epson TM-C3500 Color Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Epson TM-C3500 Color Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Epson TM-C3500 (ColorWorks C3500) color label printer: part numbers, specs, inkjet vs thermal and when color on demand pays off.
Sep 18, 2026
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SATO CG412DT Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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SATO CG412DT Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Most desktop label printers in this price bracket print at 203 dpi. That is the default across the entire entry-level category, and for s...
Sep 18, 2026
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Honeywell PD45S Compact Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Honeywell PD45S Compact Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Industrial label printers are usually sold on duty cycle and bought on floor space. A 40 lb machine is the right engineering answer for a...
Sep 18, 2026
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Datamax H-Class Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Datamax H-Class Industrial Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Buying a Datamax H-Class today is rarely a greenfield decision. It is almost always one of two situations: a printer on a production line...
Sep 18, 2026
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Citizen CL-S521II Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Citizen CL-S521II Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
There is a gap in label printing that catches out a lot of growing operations. A light desktop printer starts failing every twelve months...
Sep 18, 2026
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Wasp WPL305 Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Wasp WPL305 Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Small businesses usually arrive at barcode printing sideways. Someone buys inventory or asset tracking software, discovers it needs label...
Sep 18, 2026
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Toshiba B-FV4D Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Toshiba B-FV4D Desktop Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
The single most common ordering mistake on this printer is one letter. The Toshiba B-FV4 series splits into a D and a T, and they are not...
Sep 18, 2026
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Brady S3100 Sign and Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Brady S3100 Sign and Label Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
If you are comparing this printer against a general-purpose desktop label printer on price, you are comparing two different categories. A...
Sep 18, 2026
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Honeywell Hyperion 1300g 1D Barcode Scanner: Specs and Buying Guide
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Honeywell Hyperion 1300g 1D Barcode Scanner: Specs and Buying Guide
There is exactly one question that decides whether this scanner is right for you, and it is not price, ruggedness or speed. It is whether...
Sep 18, 2026
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Citizen CMP-20 Mobile POS Receipt Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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Citizen CMP-20 Mobile POS Receipt Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Mobile receipt printers get bought for one of two reasons, and they lead to very different specifications. Either the queue is too long a...
Sep 18, 2026
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Lexmark MB2236i Monochrome Laser MFP: Specs and Buying Guide
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Lexmark MB2236i Monochrome Laser MFP: Specs and Buying Guide
A mono laser multifunction printer is the least glamorous purchase an office makes and one of the few that is genuinely hard to get wrong...
Sep 18, 2026
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NCR RealPOS 7199 Thermal POS Receipt Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
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NCR RealPOS 7199 Thermal POS Receipt Printer: Specs and Buying Guide
Most POS receipt printers are bought once and then bought again for fifteen years, because the second purchase is never really a purchase...
Sep 18, 2026
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