DYMO LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo

I was impressed from when I received it shortly after my purchase on May 6, 2014 and then sitting there between uses it failed to run the next time I needed it a year to the day after the purchase. What timing! It wouldn't print, and it wouldn't advance labels even at the buttons on the machine which will still glowing (staring at me with a "so there"). My PC incidentally (maybe related) also reported an unknown USB device. The last time I had used it, it had worked fine, so no calamity, no jam, no smoke or noise, it just quit. These have a TWO YEAR WARRANTY! I called Dymo service 877-724-8324 and was quickly helped by technical support. All I needed to do was remove both labels, then remove the power and leave it removed until the lamps out front quit glowing (maybe 20-30 seconds). I then reinserted the power and those lights came on and flashed. I was instructed to reinsert the labels first left, then right, and as I did the motors grabbed the labels and finished feeding them until the electric end of label eye detected what it needed. At that point I could now manually feed labels. So I launched the software and printed a label, it worked fine. Technical support actually had one other trick (I didn't find out what it was because I didn't need it). Effectively what I had been walked through was a reset (reboot) of the instructions on the firmware of the Dymo Twin; I'll be able to help myself if this happened again. I don't know for certain, but I think Dymo's next trick would have been a delete-reinstall of the drivers in my PC to refresh that USB device and I had actually done that as a self-help attempt before calling them. If your machine just takes a coffee break like mine did, just do the sequence in the paragraph above; that may be all you need. If that doesn't do it for you then call Dymo before messing around they may save you some time. If that hadn't worked for me they would have given me a way to get the printer back to them and they would have repaired it or sent a replacement. Great service, and I don't mind the reboot, so far it's only needed one reboot in a year so Dymo is way ahead of Microsoft.

This printer is a lifesaver for my small business, just love it.. I keep one roll for shipping labels and another for barcodes, and it prints super fast and clear. No more swapping rolls! Easy to set up and very reliable. Worth every penny.

I own a small business. I have used DYMO printers for well more than a decade. They save a lot of time. I really like these printers. A couple of years ago I upgraded to the Twin Turbo even with my two single machine were still working well. It's an even greater time saver and it ran flawlessly. Then came V8 of the software. I “upgraded” about a year ago, maybe more. Since upgrading the program simply lost ALL of my labels. Just gone. Not even the label types show up. It's happened three times. CS Experience #1: The idiot on the phone basically said nothing can be done. Uninstall. Reinstall. Start over. CS Experience #2: This guy knew the software. There was a Windows 7 patch. He walked me through it. I could not recover my labels, he said, but the improved program worked. All was good until it wasn’t. This support visit took well over an hour. CS Experience #3: ALL of my labels disappeared for a third time. (Please believe that my system was running smoothly every time.) This Tech left the program alone, but she showed me how to find the database that stores my stuff. I can recover my labels one at a time. There is no way to recover multiples. If I hit "save as" the labels are easy to find. If I just hit "save” the program uses its own form of gibberish to name the label. Then finding a label is not worth the time. The printers have become virtually useless on some days. They have cost me more time than I can express. These days are spent fighting bugs myself; waiting 45 minutes or more on a CS telephone support line until a person answers, every time; and finally getting to speak with a tech person. Beware, quality varies a lot. Which brings me to today. The program will not launch. It sits open in my quick launch-bar. The Task Manager shows it as an open app. But the window will not open. I am so disgusted that I cannot call the CS line again. My first several sentences would be inappropriate. I will send them a copy of this review. Maybe this software runs perfectly on W10, but 1/3rd of us still use W7. DYMO forgot that when their crackerjack engineers wrote V10. UPDATE JULY 20, 2019: FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN AS MANY YEARS THIS SOFTWARE HAS DELETED MY ENTIRE STORE OF SAVED LABELS. EACH TIME HUNDREDS OF LABELS WERE DELETED. THERE IS NO WAY TO BACK UP YOUR DATA. LABELS CANNOT BE RESTORED EXCEPT INDIVIDUALLY FROM EXPLORE. SINCE THE SOFTWARE USES CRYPTIC LABEL NAMES, THERE IS NO WAY TO IDENTIFY THOSE EASILY THAT YOU WANT TO RESTORE. THIS HAS GONE ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS. DYMO CLEARLY HAS NO INTENT TO FIX THIS DAMAGING BUG. GREAT PRINTERS. HUGELY DAMAGING SOFTWARE. April 2023 update: I finally trashed my turbo 450 add my 450 jewel Dymo printers. They were in the closet for a very long time because the software didn't work on Windows 7 or Windows 10. In addition, the repetitive deletion of my stored labels with just an acceptable. I upgraded to a windows 11 machine recently and I decided to try my turbo 450. This version screws up the print settings embedded in Windows 11. I've had enough of these things. Both finally hit the trash bin

I am studying alternative/holistic medicine and have been working towards starting my own small business. I was writing on index cards and taping them to bottles and containers with instructions--and my hand writing is difficult even for me to read. This label writer has been wonderful! I am able to make the things I give to people look so much more professional now. I've also been able to do things like put labels on all of my tinctures that include all of the properties of the herb. I've come up with dozens of other things to use it for once I saw what it could do. Be aware--the software does indeed leave a lot to be desired. That's the only down side--but it's not all that difficult to work around. Also--I am a real klutz when it comes to electronic equipment. I usually get really frustrated and end up having to call my significant other in to help me out. Within just a few minutes after I unpacked my machine, I had printed out a label all by myself. Instructions are clear and simple. And the label writer is so fast and quiet! It's like all you have to do is think about printing a label and there it is! It's also very easy to switch from one label to the the other (and allows you to have two different sized labels in the machine at once). I highly recommend this label writer.

Me encantó, fantástica!

Got this for a very good deal, prints great, easy software. No complaints at all.

It’s very good clear print

Great

Muy buen producto, aunque el cable es americano