Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The Rhino 4200 is great. I reload rifle rounds and wanted a 1/2" label with at least 3 lines. I bought the 1/2" D1 label cartridge and it prints perfectly. The user interface is very simple and easy to navigate. Saving labels in memory is easy and it remembers the size, justification, and rotation. There is a user manual online that is pretty good, just Google "Rhino 4200 Manual". If you want to change the text size, rotation, or justification it can be done with the touch of a button. It also indicates on the display the current text size, rotation, justification, total number of lines, current line number, and battery level. You add lines by simply pressing enter on the keypad. Then there is a scroll bar to the right of the text line. Based on the size and position of this scroll bar you can easily tell the number of lines and the position of the line displayed on the screen. It only shows one line at a time, but the user interface is so slick that it doesn't matter. Here are some tips for this label maker: 1) When printing 1/2" labels it will allow you to print in 32pt point, but there is not enough room to allow lowercase letters to print properly (the tails of j, p , q, and y get cut off) so it prints in uppercase only, even if you have typed lowercase letters. If you print in 22pt it does lowercase and is plenty large for a 1/2" label. I think 18pt is the sweet spot for short readable labels. The sizes it lets you choose are 50 (19mm/0.75" width only), 32, 22, 18, 12, 8 and 6 pt letters. You can choose a "narrow type", but it is much harder to read and is not significantly shorter. I think a smaller font is easier to read. 2) When the label cartridge is inserted it asks what size it is. I am using metric units so I put 12mm (1/2"). When I went to print 3 lines it would only allow me to print 6pt characters. They were legible, but were quite small and left a margin on the top an bottom. I went into the settings and changed the label width to 19mm, then it allowed me to change the font size to 8pt (and 12, but 12 gets cut off top and bottom). The 8pt font size is perfect for 3 lines on 1/2" labels. If you want to print 4 lines on a 1/2 label, just set the label width to 19mm and the font size to 6pt and you can squeeze in 4 lines without a problem. (I have uploaded a picture of a few labels.) 3) I wanted cheap removable labels for my ammo boxes so I bought the 1/2" D1 label cartridges and they print perfectly. The Rhino labels are bit more expensive and more industrial than I need. The guys at Dymo probably could have made a few tweaks to make the unit better, like allowing three 8pt lines or four 6pt lines on a 1/2" label, but once you trick it into thinking it has a wider label everything works fine. Considering that this is by far the best label maker in this price range, and it can do more lines on a 1/2" label than the user manual claims, I'm giving it 5 stars. The features, user interface, and ease of use are enough to make up for some of it's minor shortcomings.