When it comes to in high spirits - timber recording label printing and ease of use , Dymo printer are big winners , and now three models — the LabelWriter 400 Turbo , LabelWriter Duo , and the one I tested , the LabelWriter Twin Turbo — add up with the attractive benefit of free postage print . I tried out a pay service that allow for you to print stamp with the Dymo LabelWriter 330 Turbo ( ) a while back , and I was intrigued to find out what the Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo with Dymo Stamps software had to offer Mac users .
The Twin Turbo printing machine lets you put two recording label rolls in the side - by - side spools , and it ’s easy to switch label type . You use the Dymo Label computer software to publish and design labels , and version 7.5.0.6 worked reasonably well for me , except for some queerness I encountered when modify text initialize and signal in the primary windowpane ’s cliff - down menu which spool I want to print from ( I had to do that by drilling down in the Print dialog box ) . The label - print amphetamine is telling , at about one recording label per second , or 55 labels per minute , and the photographic print calibre stay high even when printing numerous labels . The quality of the impress labels is lower than that of a optical maser printing machine , but it ’s good enough for print shipping labels and other office labels .
The Dymo Stamps covering , which get you print stamps for a few common postage classes , is a stripped - down version of Endicia ’s $ 16 - per - calendar month postage service of process . As you might imagine , the earnings serving offer many more features than this free service .
The only items in the printing machine that need to be supercede are new recording label , at an norm of $ 13 per roll for common label type , or about six centime per recording label . replenishment legal tender label cost about eight cents per cast label , so the premium on postage is fairly gamy . But I ’d take the convenience of this sturdy , nifty label pressman any day .
A Dymo Stamps Dashboard appliance is also available , which provides you with three stamp option . The pressman spit out out legal tender faster than it took me to even contemplate a trip to the post office , and I saved money by weighing my letters and print only the postage I need . Depending on your own habits , this may make up for the premium on the revenue stamp labels .
Macworld’s buying advice
The Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo with Dymo Stamps software is the only postage - and - recording label - printer combining for the Mac , and it ’s a gamey - quality one at that . If you need to print labels on demand as well as postage stamp , it will pay for itself promptly . Another plus is that the pressman uses a thermal printing process that does n’t use ink or toner .
[ Jennifer Berger is a formerMacworldeditor , now an editor and writer in San Francisco , who has a very organized and clearly labeled set of single file console . ]
