![]() If you never need to print labels as large as roughly 4 by 6 inches, there's obviously no point in spending the money for the Dymo LabelWriter 4XL. I'd rather have it working without problems than have to do without it. The add-in, however, is potentially highly useful. If you run into it on your system, you can simply uninstall the add-in. At this writing, Dymo says it has not been able to replicate the problem and is still looking into it.Īs I've said in other Dymo printer reviews, you can't count this as a serious issue, because if the feature were missing entirely, the printer wouldn't lose any points for its absence. The add-in appears to modify Word's Normal.dot template every time Word loads, so even loading and then exiting Word, without doing any work, puts a message on screen warning that Normal.dot has changed. Not surprisingly, considering the software is the same, I saw the same Word add-in issue with the 4XL that I've seen with other Dymo LabelWriter printers. It was much faster for a 20- label print job, taking a total of 76 seconds, which translates to 3.8 seconds each or 15.8 lpm for shipping labels. With a 4.16-by-6.275-inch shipping label, using an image of a UPS label copied from the UPS website and pasted into the Dymo label program, I timed the printer at an average of 6.3 seconds per label for single labels. That works out to to 50 labels per minute (lpm), just a little shy of the 53 lpm rating. Individual mailing labels took 3.1 seconds each, and a 50-label print job took 60 seconds. PerformanceFor mailing labels, I timed the 4XL at about the same speed as Dymo's LabelWriter 450. However, the Iabol website works with the 4XL to let you print labels for a variety of shippers. Note too that you can't print from UPS, FedEx and other shippers directly. To print postage, you need to sign up for an account on the Endicia website. In addition, add-ins for the Office XP through 2010 versions of Word and Excel will let you create a label from an address in a letter, for example, or from data in a spreadsheet. This is one of the more capable and easier to use labeling programs available, letting you create and store label formats, complete with features like automatic time stamps and bar codes, including Postnet for mailing labels.Īlong with the labeling program, the printer comes with a standard print driver, so you can print from any program. Setup and SoftwareBasic setup is standard for a USB-connected label printer. Street prices range from $8.49 to $54.99 for a single roll. In addition to stamp labels ($20.95 street for a roll of 200, not including postage) and 4-by-6 labels ($36.99 street for a roll of 220), Dymo says there are 50 additional choices, which vary in color, size, and number of rolls per box. The good news is that there are lots of labels to choose from, with Dymo offering far more label types than Brother does for the TD-4000. ![]() Leave each roll mounted on its own spool, and switching will be a lot easier. The fix is to buy additional spools (at $20.00 direct each). However, it could quickly become one if you want to change between printing, say, mailing labels, stamps, and shipping labels several times a day. If you dedicate the printer to using only one kind of label, this won't be an issue. ![]() Instead of being able to simply take one roll out and drop the replacement in, you have remove the first roll from the one spool the printer comes with and mount the replacement on the spool first. One potential issue with Dymo's LabelWriter design is that switching between rolls is harder than it could be. However, even with the 4.16-inch wide shipping labels, the roll tears off cleanly and easily. As with other Dymo LabelWriters, and unlike some of its competition, notably the Brother TD-4000, it lacks an automatic cutter, which you might think would be a problem with wide labels. On the other, it's the only Dymo LabelWriter that can print on 4.16-by-6.275-inch shipping labels, which makes it a great fit for, say, a small company that needs to ship products it sells on eBay.īeing able to print wider labels than most office label printers means the 4XL is necessarily wider than most, but it doesn't take up all that much more desk space, at roughly 5.5 by 7.8 by 7.3 inches (HWD). ![]() One the one hand, it comes with the same software and prints at similar speeds. Depending on your point of view, the Dymo LabelWriter 4XL ($279.99 direct) is either a minor variation on Dymo's other label printers like the Editors' Choice Dymo LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo and Dymo LabelWriter 450, or it's a very different beast.
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