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Organise your home with electronic labellers from Brother
Brother launches two electronic labellers with “What-you-see-is-what-you-get” (WYSIWYG) functionality and one with a special edition Hello Kitty theme
Looking to get your home organised? It can be difficult to find both time and energy to take care of the home, given all the many other priorities in a day. This starts to become a problem when days pass and the home becomes overwhelmingly messy.
The home is our special place and somewhere we look to retreat to, at the end of a long day or to spend a good weekend. It definitely helps to keep the space well-organised.
Start with a little time each day and small steps and watch the impact grow on the organisation and orderliness at home. And as with all big home projects, it is easier to deal with small tasks such as keeping items in the right places.
Here are three areas where labellers can help with organising items at home:
Around the house: Pack up those books, collections and memorabilia into storage boxes and label them. Labels are also good for marking individual items with nuggets of information for example, electrical wires, switches, remote controllers and other home appliances.
Depending on how you organise your days (or evenings), labels can help you structure your time. Last day of the month? Take out the tray labelled bills. Wondering where you left the house keys? Look for the container or basket marked “keys”.
Kitchen: Labels are great for identifying and keeping track of food items in the fridge or freezer. They are good for tracking foods that have a long shelf life or containers holding multiple items.
This is not a well known fact but labels are generally able to withstand high and low temperatures, do not get affected by water and fade-resistant. These properties can come in handy when freezing food items. You might be making a large pot of soup to save into single portion servings before freezing. Using a label to note the date or week it was first frozen might be helpful.
Garden or balcony: Growing some herbs to complement your cooking? Labels can help with the pots and racks to help separate between your rosemary and thyme.
Labels can also be used to designate areas for storing items such as bicycles and mobile scooters. It can even be used to mark out areas for the younger children to play or leave their toys at. At the very least, the kids get used to reading and identifying words from the start.
WYSIWYG labellers help prevent wasted labels
The PT-D600 comes with a full-colour LCD display and provides WYSIWYG functionality. This means you can see a “true” image of the label and make edits in real time, before printing the label. The electronic labeller automatically detects and displays the colour of the labelling tape for added convenience.
The P-touch Editor Label Design software comes bundled along with the PT-D600. Using the software and a connected PC or Mac, users can create high resolution labels, select from an extensive library of label templates and even create custom labels.
Some key features of the PT-D600 include:
- Works with over 60 TZe laminated tape cartridges in a variety of colours and sizes
- Print customised labels up to 24mm wide and up to 7 lines of text
- Includes a library of ready to print business labels, as well as customisable pre-formatted templates
- Pre-programmed with fonts, styles, frames and symbols
- Stores commonly used labels in internal memory for easy reprinting
- Super fast print speeds of up to 30mm per second with an automatic tape cutter
The PT-D600 is available at authorised resellers and superstores and at a recommended retail price (RRP) of SGD238.
Another model – the PT-D450 – is also available at a RRP of SGD158. The PT-D450 offers the same functions as the PT-D600 but comes only with a monochrome backlit display and prints labels up to 18mm only.
Hello Kitty labeller to appeal to some young-at-heart fans
Brother also launched a special edition Hello Kitty electronic labeller – the PT-D200KT – specially designed for hobbyists and fans of the popular character.
With the PT-D200KT, users can use an extensive range of built-in Hello Kitty frame designs and symbols to print labels as well as design their labels on Brother TZe laminated tape with a Hello Kitty watermark background. .
Some key features of the PT-D200KT include:
- Print speed of 20mm per second
- Prints up to 12mm wide TZe laminated tapes
- Prints up to 2 lines
- Built in with 97 frames (22 Hello Kitty frames) and 651 symbols (34 Hello Kitty symbols)
The PT-D200KT and the TZe-HW31 tape cartridge are available at authorised resellers and superstores at a RRP of SGD88 and SGD27.50 respectively.
