Dymo LabelWriter 4XL

Superb! I purchased this as part of the Amazon Warehouse deals. I was a little nervous as it stated that packaging or the product could have cosmetic damage. The item arrived (albeit much quicker than the estimate) and was in perfect condition, and I struggled to find the cosmetic damage detailed. One of the booklets was scribbled over, by a child in felt tip, but to be fair it was the warranty booklet, so nothing that impacts the item and will probably be thrown in a drawer, anyway.I quickly plugged it all in and thankfully as I have upgraded from the Dymo LabelWriter 400, it was as easy as plugging it in and getting started. I already had the Dymo V8 software installed, although this is easy enough to download from the website, if I hadn't.I bought the 4XL printer as I wanted to be able to print postage labels through the Hermes website. I feel I am spending a lot on ink cartridges, paper and document wallets, so this seemed like the obvious choice. My 'old' Dymo gets minimal use, purchased in my ebay heyday for printing postage. Now I have moved to using Hermes with fully tracked service, I don't have much use for the Dymo, given that I print my labels using my trusty inkjet. Having recently spotted Hermes thermal label options, it set the old brain ticking as to what options were available and research lead me to the Dymo 4XL.I have yet to receive my full size labels, but I have already tried existing labels in the printer and found they work fine, so that is enough of a test for me. I love Dymo label printers, having owned my LabelWriter 400 for the past few years. They pay for themselves in the long run and I will save on ink cartridges, paper and 'document enclosed' wallets, so it will pay for itself over time.Dymo software is great and easily accessible from their website. Compatible labels are also readily available and pretty cost-effective. All round a great product!Highly recommended!

Firstly, if you're still printing labels using your A4 printer, and then folding them down to size and inserting them into sticky document wallets, or worse cellotaping them to your parcels, then do yourself a favour, get a 4x6" thermal label printer. Make sure it's a "thermal" printer, as these use high heat to print onto your label paper. There's no ink, no toner, and no ribbons to worry about. My first one was a cheap unbranded Chinese job. It was good, very solid and well built, and it did the job, but not very well. The print quality was poor, so I would usually have to print my label twice or three times and pick the best one. I did this for about a year and got tired of the waste, so I decided to upgrade. It was a choice between a Zebra GK420d, or a Dymo 4XL. I picked the Dymo just on price, getting a great bargain from the Amazon Warehouse. It's brilliant. It's lighter and slightly smaller than my unbranded printer, but it looks smart and the print quality is magnificent, really genuinely excellent. No more double or triple printing!One thing to note. The Dymo 4XL will accept unbranded (cheap!) labels, for around a fiver a roll if you shop round. The Dymo 5XL is the same printer, and it costs maybe £30 less. But it will only accept branded Dymo labels at about £22 a roll. Do the maths - it's just not worth it. The print quality is no better using branded labels, especially if you're only printing parcel shipping labels. Buy the 4XL.

I bought this for printing Postage Labels for Royal Mail and Courier Labels for shipping. I read on a Forum that you could use this for Royal Mail postage as they only allow you to print in A4 or A6 on A4 Paper. This was a real pain and very time consuming. When I got it, I was very dismayed as it would not.I then figured out you have to use the screen grab on Dymo Software to capture a picture of the PDF that Royal Mail gives you of the postage and place it on the label template. You need to use the Advanced options by double clicking on the image and picking the Advanced Tab and alter the picture size to A6. It works brilliantly and saves a ton of time and paper.With myHermes, it just prints straight to the label amazing so much easier to ship no more document pouches printing A4 folding and inserting a real time saverIt is easy to install and if you have another Dymo Label like I have you can just change printer and choose a different Dymo label printer to print from the drop-down.If you are shipping a lot and using Royal Mail for postage this will save you a ton of time and speed up the whole process.. Expensive but really worth itA word to the wiser do not use the screen grab for Bar Codes on a shipment with a Courier as the bar codes won't Scan found this out when I took it to the drop shop and they scanned it. Has to print directly from the couriers software if the bar code stretches at all it won't​ scan..