Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Small Business owners: this is the one. Inexpensive, user friendly, fully customizable thermal printer, with cheap thermal rolls @ around 2 cents per label available in bulk on Amazon. I own a small online business and need to ship a few orders a day, I was previously trying the Brother QL-1100, and before that I was using an ink jet printer on label paper, and I'm so glad I switched to this, for a few reasons: 1. Ink is way too expensive. Like, holy heck man. 2. The shipping label sheets are more as expensive per label all by themselves, not counting ink. 3. I had to manually format a lot of online labels with Adobe acrobat in order to not waste pages. With this printer, I can print from Amazon, PayPal, and Etsy with thier thermal printer format option. (Bonus tip at the end for websites that don't have a 4x6 option) 4. I had to manually cut the labels out if I wanted them to be small rectangles like most labels are. This label printer has been amazing, and like I said, I actually tried the Brother QL-1100 before trying this, and ended up returning it. if you're on the fence, here's why: 1. The brother has much more expensive label rolls, over 12 cents a label, and the generics don't work right -- I tried to use the generic Enko labels at a much better cost (about 3 cents a label) but the size was smaller, and the brother couldn't be configured to print on it correctly. 2. The Arkscan can be configured to print on almost any label size, while the brother software doesn't let you change unless the printer can tell the size loaded inside matches your settings. So frustrating, and actually a big deal for printing correctly. I tried for hours to configure the brother to print correctly on the smaller labels, but everything I did made it worse. -- With the Arkscan, I literally just did the auto size (not perfect, more on that later) and then manually adjusted it to all of the exact measurements in millimeters in the settings, and it's worked perfectly for every label, no over printing, nothing. And the settings actually save! (The brothers settings would randomly reset every so often, to add insult to injury.) --- Now for the flaws - there's always something! OK, so If I had to say one negative thing, it would be the auto label size scan thing, when I tried it, it wasn't very accurate. Like, at all. It thought my labels were like 10 inches long. But, being able to manually measure my generic brand "Buhoo" or whatever Labels, and enter them into the device settings, and save it as a preset, was a complete breath of fresh air after dealing with the extremely limited driver settings of the brother ql-1100. -- So thank you again for actually allowing control with your driver, instead of trying to lock people into buying your proprietary labels like other manufacturers are trying to do. --- Bonus tip if you read this far: For websites that don't offer a 4x6 option (like Amazon's own dang return labels forsome reason..) you can save the label as an image (right click, view image, save as...) and then just open it up with any image viewer and hit print to the Arkscan. It just works! It fits to the 4x6 label, even if the label is facing sideways or something weird like that.