DYMO LabelWriter for Mac

User Reviews

• Want a FREE LabelWriter 450?

  imouttagivea8/17/2011

  Pros

  It's free for any owner of a 300 series LabelWriter

  Cons

  You need to call and ask for it, and they may make you wrestle a bit.

  Summary

  If you have any 300 series LabelWriter, call DYMO tech support (1-877-724-8324) and tell them you have upgraded to Lion and it doesn't work. The company policy (though not publicized) is that they will let you send it in and exchange it for a new LabelWriter 450. If they want to troubleshoot, just tell them it isn't showing in your Printers & Faxes and isn't listed when you try to add it manually. They WILL exchange it for a 450 if you are persistent.

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• Want a FREE LabelWriter 450

  imouttagivea8/17/2011

  Pros

  It's free, for owners of any 300 series LabelWriter

  Cons

  You have to wrestle with them a bit for it.

  Summary

  If you have any 300 series LabelWriter, call DYMO tech support (1-877-724-8324) and tell them you have upgraded to Lion and it doesn't work. The company policy (though not publicized) is that they will let you send it in and exchange it for a new LabelWriter 450. If they want to troubleshoot, just tell them it isn't showing in your Printers & Faxes and isn't listed when you try to add it manually. They WILL exchange it for a 450 if you are persistent.

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• Does not work with new Mac Operating System (Lion)

  ssj2128/16/2011

  Pros

  Great machine when it worked

  Cons

  The link to the fix is a dead link.

  Summary

  Makes the machine only useful as a paperweight--what a waste!!

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• A few days late and a hundred-or-so dollars short

  Steveg_VA8/3/2011

  Pros

  Can't tell yet, as it does not support my perfectly operational Turbo LabelWriter 330!

  Cons

  Does not support LabelWriters with model numbers below 400.

  Summary

  After complaining to tech in an on-line chat, and threatening to post lack of support to on-line Mac lists, he came back with a "for you only..." RMA to return my LabelWriter Turbo 330 for replacement with a Turbo 450. I just received notice that my Turbo 330 had arrived at the repair facility, and that a Turbo 450 was being sent to me. We shall see...<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Aug 3, 2011<p/>By the way, this review applies to Lion, as my LabelWriter Turbo 330 was working just fine without the software update on Snow Leopard. But, the older software does not work with Lion. And, the new software does not work with Lion because there are no drivers for the Turbo 330 for Lion.

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• Good hardware, crappy software.

  skaderly4/26/2011

  Pros

  Hardware is good.

  Cons

  Cannot import old address book, except via first run wizard which does not work.

  Summary

  I don't have time to type in all of my v7 addresses. How hard is it to write software to convert database entries from one format to another? Don't like v8, not going to use it. Dymo has never had decent software. Probably time to invest in the competition.

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• must have update for LabelWriter printer owners

  westhendon_dotmac1/29/2011

  Pros

  I use the software a couple of times a week - it remembers regular labels, and allows easy lookup to my Address Book

  Cons

  If anything, more options and facilities than i will ever use

  Summary

  If you have the DYMO Labelwriter, then this fully featured software update is a must have

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• Works for me

  sbinfo17/11/2010

  Pros

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have used a LabelWriter 330 for many years. The interface of previous versions (6 onward) worked but was not efficient. Setting these up originally was a nightmare, even with technical support. However, 8.2.21172 works beautifully and is blazingly fast. It required one contact with tech support to help set it up, because there was one thing that had to be selected but no visible instruction to do this. I don't use the LabelWriter for anything except printing address labels. They print in 2 seconds. I note that many others consider previous versions of this software abysmal. They point out that it doesn't do various things that I don't try to do, so I don't know whether this version has improved what they are complaining about. All I can say is that for simply printing labels, it now works perfectly for me.

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• Simple. Easy to use. Sophisticated features.

  laundryczar7/9/2010

  Pros

  The software is easy to use and can use either multiple address books within itself or use the Mac OS Address Book application as a source. It is easy to manipulate and the wide range of preloaded labels is helpful, although custom labels are easy.

  Cons

  The documentation is iffy. When importing addresses it wasn't reliable and I found it faster to just type them in freshly. I type quickly, so maybe that is why.

  Summary

  The bottom line is that it is useful and since flexible. Since it comes with the printers, you can't beat it with a stick.

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• Utterly hopeless

  willnrob1/18/2010

  Pros

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have a label design with graphics that I regularly use for my wife's jam making and have not been able to load it into version 8.2, but I find I can still use 6.1 in Snow Leopard so am using that. 8.2 might have a slicker interface but when you get to use it it is dreadful!!

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• OS X Address Book Groups gone

  adammasri11/25/2009

  Pros

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Hello Dymo, In v7 we could see MacOS X Address Book Groups as well as names. Now, we only see names from the built-in Address Book. The groups were very important. I have a client that prints well over a hundred labels for letters to her extended family, and she likes to click her Family group from OS X Address Book in the Dymo software, and print labels to all of them at once. Now she can't do that. She's frustrated, which will likely lead to less label printing, which of course is bad. I registered on your Website, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to send you an RFE. So I'm doing it here. - Adam

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