Brother P-touch ~1/2-Inch Standard Laminated Tape, Black on White, 26.2-Feet (2 Pack) (Electronics)

As I'm a labeling freak, I purchased two label makers. One is battery operated and the other is plug in. While there are colors available, I prefer the laminated black on white tape. I have many many garden markers that I use to keep the names of my daylilies and clematis straight. I like to know from one year to the next what beautiful blooms I'm looking at and as I have so many plants and my mind gets more senior with each passing year, I find that the labels are invaluable.Some of these markers have been outside for three years or more and the label is as crisp and fresh as the day it was printed, truly a terrific quality product. Our Ozark summers can be brutal and the winds and rain of the winters bone chilling, but the markers stay in tip top shape. I also like to label my storage boxes in my basement and on shelves around the house and I prefer to use quart Mason jars ( a habit I inherited from my Mother years and years ago) to store rice, pasta, bisquick,...Read more

I used to be a huge fan of my P-Touch 2730 and this tape. I even used it in liquid nitrogen and it has always stayed put.But something has changed with this recent batch. The backing used to be blue; now it is white. And more importantly, the tape is much thinner and cheaper-feeling than it used to be. Worst of all, the plastic laminate starts to peel off the label after printing. This batch has jammed my label maker at least 5 times (I bought four 2-packs because it's such a good deal, and I go through a lot of labels). The black carbon portion stops feeding correctly and you end up throwing out a mostly-unused cartridge.I'm afraid my loyalty to this label maker is over. They seem to have changed the production of the tape and it is not durable anymore.

I bought some of these for my new Brother label printer back in June of this year (2016)...and have been steadily plowing through them as I label my new crafting studio stuff.....and I have a BIG caveat to all who are considering both the P-Touch label maker that uses the TZe-type tape and most definitely the TZe tape. While this version of the printer tape has some tremendously helpful improvements versus previous Brother label types, it also has a terrible issue that negates all of the good things.....it TANGLES (much like cassette audio tapes used to tangle up as they wore out), most often just after it has printed out the first or second label of the cassette. These cassettes are far to expensive to have this happen with such regularity, as the entire cassette is ruined when this happens.I have two much older versions of Brother printers, using the smaller version of the label cassettes, and over many years, none of those cassettes ever tangled. Since this doesn't...Read more