And why don't you buy such DIN-A4 sheets with sticking labels? Can be used with a laser printer.
https://www.pokornys.de/DIN-A4-Universaletiketten
I'd do first print them on an ordinary DIN-A4 sheet and check, if the printings hits correctly all the labels.
But then it is a cheap and nice thing to label the drawers with them.
I will use that technique to print the labels for all the resistor bags/envelopes, but for labeling the drawers I prefer a label printer... because it's gonna b ea lot of "on offs". I find it more practical and quicker to be at the bench with the printer and make labels as I go, on the fly : fill a drawer with rubber feet, say, print immediately a label for that. A minute later fill a drawer with X-tals.. print another label for that, next, next...
Printing a full A4 on the laser printer for just a one-off is not practical and too time consuming, plus the sheet can not be passed through the printer too many times....
so I find an A4 laser printed suited when I want to do a full page of labels, like when labeling the resistor bags. Use the entire page, print once, use it all.
But for the small drawers it's gonna be a random mix of misc stuff... i want to be able to print each label as one-off, on the fly, at the same time as I am filling the drawers with random stuff... more practical and quicker this way I find ?!
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Now, OK.. I could fill all the drawers, then take note of all the labels that I need to do, go to the computer, create all the labels and print the A4 page yeah.... I guess.
But then I would have to cut the labels by hand with a sharp blade, to make them perfect rectangles of the appropriate height, 10mm... not 9 or 11. I doubt there are A4 label sheets with spot on the correct dimensions ? So I would need to print on a huge A4 sticker (the sticker being the entire size of the page...this one
https://www.pokornys.de/Universal-Etiketten-2100-x-2970-mm ) then cut it up, so more work
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Plus, these labels are paper based... if if I later want to remove that label to use the drawer for something else, it will be a pain to remove... whereas the portable label printer uses a plastic ribbon, so if I want/need to remove it later, I can just peel it off easily, no residue, and put a new one in its place ?
But... I also want this portable printers to label cables, and so a paper label will not do in this case, not resistant enough.
So to sum it up : I would like one of these label printers around for all kinds or purpose, not just for labeling my small drawers... the drawers just so happen to be the first opportunity that pops up, to use such a printer, that's all.
So I will tell you what... I will get a printer anyway then, and try BOTH methods to labels the drawers, and see which method I prefer !
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