Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK, I bought this as part of a general house organization, and it is absolutely great: much better than the keyboard units I have used before, and well worth the money once you understand how to turn off its major misfeature: wasting tape! GREAT features: has internal rechargeable battery, and can be easily controlled from phone, allowing you to wander house/office with it and label everything in sight with minimal hassle (you do have to adapt to rather clunky phone interface, but this isn't too hard once you get used to it, and much better than keyboard units IMO even before then). I have exclusively used it through Brother's (android) phone software: and there are two I've tried: * PT-Design & Print: easy to use, but enrages you by constantly wasting 1" of tape for every label * iPrint&Label: slightly harder to use (still easy once you understand limitations), but can avoid wasting if you pay attention. The only bad feature for me so far is that they set the printer up so it autocuts inside machine, and if you print individual labels it wastes something like an inch of tape for every label you print. This would be maddening even if you were rich! If you use iPrint, however, it has the feature that can be used to turn off this terrible misfeature. When you go to print label, notice you get a "Print Options" screen (unlike with PT-Design), one of which is "Auto Cut, Chain print". If you use this option, it will print the label, and not advance and cut it until you print the next label. As long as you keep this print setting, printing a new label will advance & cut the old, and one will be hidden, and so you can continue to label as many different items as you like w/o wasting tape, as long as you are willing to have two in progress all the time. When you reach the last one, you can remove chain printing, and waste only tape there (BTW: I believe if you print multiple of same label, you never waste except at end, but I'm always doing different labels so this never helps).