Features:

  • Smart Compact Design With Large Keyboard and Convenient Top Loading Tape Design
  • Full Color, High Resolution Display With Backlight
  • Create Labels Using The Wide Easy Type Keyboard or Connect To A PC or Mac For Additional Functionality
  • Includes AC Adapter or Purchase Batteries For On The Go Use
  • 2 Year Limited Warranty and Free Phone Support For The Life Of Your Product
Love it!

Don't have any problems with my PTD600 so far. Battery is NOT included. I just took a picture so you may see it runs on 6 AA batteries. USB cable, adapter, and one 24mm tape is included.

Great label maker. I love it for labeling my essential oil bottles.

I love my new label maker. This is my first one and it works great. It came with a 24 mm tape and I used all of it in one night labeling my homemade essential oil blends. I reordered more tapes. The keyboard is large and easy to type. It has label and print display. I saved my labels in a file for easy retrieval later on. I'm very happy to own this product. The 24 mm tape has up to 7 lines of text. The 18 mm tape has up to 5 lines of text. I love the font, symbol, and frame settings. It has a minimum of 6 point font size to 48 point. See attached photos.

Works great, just as expected

Works great, just as expected. Initially had problems using the software I downloaded from Brother. Called them for better clarification and they were able to help.Also purchased extra tapes from Amazon who had the best price - very reasonable. I am happy and pleased so far with this product. If you need to label your personal home or work equipment this is the way to go. The only con is to get used to using the software so that your description fits on the label when it prints. This gets a little getting used to, but once you get past this it will become a valuable tool for you.

Great Label Maker To Get You Organized (I only regret not getting the carrying case)

Personal Experience: This is the second of this exact label maker I have purchased. The first was for work and I was extremely impressed with the features, speed, versatility and ease of use that I wanted to purchase one for my house. Some may say that this label maker is "overkill" for home use but if you want to print a 24mm wide tape then you might as well get this label maker. The first thing about this label maker that makes it a best buy is the ability to print either plugged into the wall or with batteries. Having the flexibility to print anywhere really makes this product shine because there are times when I want to be at my desk and organize while other times I am organizing in my garage without the power cord. The next feature that I really appreciate is the easy to use interface, creating and printing labels are straight forward and only takes a few seconds. The last thing that I really appreciate about the label maker is its ability to change tape sizes quickly. When I print labels for large bins I tend to use the 24mm tape and when I print labels out for my toolbench screw drawers I stick with the 12mm tape. Like I said at the beginning of my review, this is the second time I have purchased this exact label maker and I really like it, the only regret is that I did not splurge for the carrying case when I bought one for my house. I still gave the product 5 stars because the label maker works just as well with or without the carrying case. Recommend: Yes (get the carrying case if you see it on sale or want to keep your tape and printer together) Pros: Can be powered with a cord or batteries Software is easy to use and lets you print out labels in seconds Multiple sized and colored tapes can be used Color screen is large and very easy to read Computer connection lets you print out more complex designs on labels Keyboard is easy to read and feels like a quality product Cons: Computer software is not as easy to use as printer on-board software Without the case you have to store your tape somewhere

Great PC compatible device...needs to offer Linux support!!!!

I bought the Brother PTD600 PC Connectible Label maker for being able to import graphics into the labels. I was most impressed with a friend's Brother label printer (that did not import external graphics) and decided to "go big". Being able to import personal (created ) graphics makes it worth the extra cost. Just my humble opinion. The Brother software works flawlessly (so far) on my 64bit Windows 7 computer. * As primarily a Linux user I (and other Linux users) can only wish for full Linux support for such great devices!!! Brother, are you listening? Please!

Avoid any wasted tape with these slmple solutions.

Received this yesterday evening and made about 30 labels last night and love love love it!! I didn’t even look at the directions as it was that simple to figure out. For those talking about wasted tape, I saw what you meant on the first label printed. To easily resolved this problem: 1. Click function button, scroll to “CUT OPTION” and click “chain” (my favorite). If making multiple labels, click “small margin” if you’re only printing one or 2. On “TAB LENGTH”, scroll down until it reaches “0.0” if you don’t want any excess on the side. And last but not least, after you have made your desired label go to “LENGTH” and keep reducing it until it pops up and says “letters to big, long, etc”, and then click it one up until is accepted, doing it this way assures me that I have it as compacted as possible to avoid any waste whatsoever. Unless I have a specific length that I want and I design my letter size, shape (font), frames etc to fit within the boundaries. Once you have the settings how you like it, click the “FN” button, scroll to the bottom and click on “SAVE” and store the settings on the number you choose because otherwise you have to repeat the same process each time you create a new label. I haven’t had any waste whatsoever since I made these adjustments. My only complaint is that the Automatic Settings go to the highest margin, tabs and length setting, which undoubtedly is to sell more product. Hope this easy solution helps resolve the problems you’ve been encountering.

Sturdy, Works Well, Lots of tape options

I’ve had earlier brother P – touch machines, but this new one I like the best. So far it has been easy to use, there is a good instruction book with it to help. As some have mentioned, the way labelers work, a large margin of blank tape is spooled out every label. The fix for that, is for every new label you create, go to settings, change to Narrow Margins. For multiple labels, choose Chain. Chain also has narrow margins, but doesn’t do the extra feed between labels. There are lots of tape options, and the offbrand/cheaper tapes so far have worked well. I bought an aftermarket case, as the plastic molded case that brother makes, seems to have a lot of wasted space.

Totally Useless For Macintosh Users

Unless you happen to be on OS8 or OS9. Duh! Decades old software? You've got to be kidding! There is a Brother PT-D600.app, but it's useless, too. They're pretty up to date for PCs and have lots of PC additions for design add-ons. It seems the person at Brother in charge of this product line doesn't give a S#it. Great Label maker, but without any Mac software, is limited to what you can do. Totally and completely disappointed with Brother.

WARNING: So good that using it is addictive

You might want to consider if you should buy a label maker or not. It's not quality, this thing is just fantastic. It's a little tank and keeps on printing. it's so good you'll find yourself prowling around the house looking for things to slap a label on. It gets a bit addicting. Worse well with the power supply or batteries. I'm getting comic book collection organized (>20,000 comics) , and slapping a label on a divider just makes everything look that much extra awesome. BTW, I bought some 3rd party JARBO labels. A 4 pack of White and a 5 pack with multiple colors. The colors are reflected on the screen just like the official label tapes are. I was constantly swapping between three labels: Thick white labels that came with the printer, thin white ones, and a color. The only problems I had is the red label tape got jammed up, but it was over half used up by that time. I've used 3 white ones and half the yellow w/o any problems. Considering how inexpensive the JARBO labels are, I recommend that you look into them. They are the perfect complement to the printer. The only downside is you have LOTS of label tape, so you'll go around looking for MORE THINGS to label. I spent an afternoon hunting up every power supply/adapter in the house and slapping a label on them. When you slap a "labelmaker" label on the label maker's power supply, you know you've got a problem. Don't say I didn't warn you!

PTD600 Great Label Maker... but don’t forget to remove second lcd protective film covering

This label maker/printer just flat out rocks! It works great and is so much fun to use. The only issue I had was unpacking it, really, unpacking it. Look, I am no dummy but I missed an important step that caused a lot of angst. When I first got it, l took it out of the box and bag, removed the plastic film on the lcd and tape windows, put 6 AA batteries in, I powered it up and got this weird rainbow diagonal line pattern. What the heck, no one else had complained about this, no complaints about about how crappy the display looked. Searched Amazon and Brother sites and FAQs, no help. I even bought a second unit at a local office supply store ... exact same problem, fuzzy rainbow pattern. Brother to the rescue... sent Brother an email and they shared with me there was a second transparent film covering the lcd display. This film is impossible to see, there is no “remove me” note or a pull tab like on a cell phone. You have to use a finger nail to scrape a corner of the lcd and get the film to roll up. Peeled off the film and viola, all was right with the world. Super crisp bright color display. Thank you Brother Customer Service, but oh Brother couldn’t you give us a clue that there are two layers of protective film on the lcd display. I cannot be your first complaint. Now I am doing my Happy Dance but it took a while to get here.

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