Colin,

I don't know if there's a right or wrong answer.

I do know that if I'm updating another company's particularly hideous perpetual award, I don't want my label anywhere near it.

In fact, I've seen some work so bad that even the person who made it won't attach their own label to it. :-)

David - that's my view! We have one company in town that didn't used to use labels and I am always repairing or re-engraving their work to fix errors. I would not want my label on their work - it is not a reflection of my quality. They are using labels now and the fixes still come to us.

If the label is from somewhere out of my area, and they are bringing it in to have the engraving done (say a national company made the award and the client bought the item on-line or through their club), I will put my label on it so the next person who gets the engraving done knows where to go locally. I don't take the other label off, but put my label in a little more visible position on the back.

Cindy M

Chuck,

It's a label maker.

www.brother-usa.com/ptouch/whatsapt/pt_whatsapt.html

See Stunt's answer first.

The labels are laminated with the printing inside the lamination. They take Windex and never fade. The DPI on the older unit I have is lousy, but you usually cannot notice it unless you try to print a graphic.

It is used for all of my price/description labels in my store.

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

Does it or can it produce the lables that one would put on the bottom of a trophy or the back of a plaque? ( HEY! That rhymes..I'm a poet and didn't know caust my feet are LONGFELLOWS) { insert corny joke laugh here}

Will it do foil lables?

They have many different tapes available. I generally use gold letters on black. I used to use black letters on clear for the glass because they less obtrusive. They were so unobtrusive that customers were constantly asking how much it cost, into the bucket with that idea.

I have not seen foils as an option. It is too expensive for bottom labels. They are cheap in a few hundred quantities.

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

Don't even think along those lines Chuck. The Brother unit is great for small runs, but if you are planning on getting labels for your products, there are more cost effective places by far.
Cindy

I have been known to NOT put my labels on trophies that the customers design, but I don't like (I always try and talk them out of bad designs first). I agree with the others, depends on the amount of work I put into it and if it is quality work.

Cathy