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sjfcontrol wrote:

Pawpaw wrote:The best label printers are Brother P-touch.

The labels will never fade and will stay put. They are laminated when they come out of the printer and will stay where you put them. I worked in telecommunications for 20 years and they were the only label most companies would allow.

If you get one of the printers that have a USB interface and use the widest label tape, you can use your PC to format your labels any way you wish.

Good point! I have one of those, too —but have never tried to hook it to a computer. I’ll have to see if I can find the cable. Unfortunately I think it’s old enough it is probably a serial i/f.

Excellent idea, Pawpaw. With a 1" label, you can squeeze in a quite a bit of info. And supposedly the Brother software will allow you to print barcodes too, including PDF417 (what I use). If I didn't need my label printer for other things like printing shipping labels, I think I would have gone for the P-touch bigger instead. I have a smaller one (half inch) for labeling around the house, and they are top notch. Shoulda sprung for the bigger one. Oh well.

sjfcontrol wrote:Got a link to that?

These aren't exactly cheap new, apparently. https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-dow ... c420t.html. You'll still need ribbon and labels on top of that. There is a cheaper version that is a direct thermal printer (no ribbon), but those use the same method to print as those receipt machines at a retail store, so they will easily fade over time. The thermal transfer is what you're looking for.

I got mine from a business that was getting rid of them for a very reasonable price. It came with half a roll of 4 inch ribbon and 4x3 labels. I decided rather than buying new labels, I just use the ones that came with it, then cut them in quarters. Basically 4 labels per sheet. I used a free program from the Zebra website to design the labels. Although you can use any program you want, really. Even MS Word. But to create the barcodes it's best to use a program specifically for label printers.

EDIT: Amazon sells the printer for $300 new. Link to it doesn't work, though.

Nothing like making good use of a new-to-me label printer. This is the same sort of label used for shipping, so it's very fade, chemical, and heat resistant. Best part is that I don't need to worry about my poor penmanship. All I need to do is scan the barcode on my phone, and I have all the load data I need for that particular box of ammo. I just relabeled all of the boxes of loaded ammo I have. So much cleaner.

flechero wrote:Brother, if you send a thousand or 3, pieces of 45acp brass, I will decap it, clean it, reload it shoot it and repeat as often as you see fit... just to keep it limber for you!! I am a giver.

Thanks for the offer, but I think I can handle it on my own.

I cleaned, resized, flared, and primed another 300 .45 ACP (apparently that was it of my backlog), went through and did the same for my 1000 pieces of 10mm brass, and finally finished loading my backlog of rifle brass with the exception of the 6.8 SPC (going to shoot up what's left of my terrible old load formula before loading my new one).

I'm going to order up some .40 cal 180 grain bullets, some more 230 grain 45 ACP, and restock on my .308 MK bullets. Hopefully I can have more pistol caliber ammo ready to go in the next couple weeks. Until then, I'm going to relabel my ammo boxes and cans. I recently got a hold of a Zebra label printer, and I'm excited to put it to some good use.

Just took receipt of 1000 rounds of 10mm Starline brass. I'm prepping/priming them over the next few days before loading them with 180 grain RNFP bullets. I'm going to verify a tweaked version of the 10mm today at the range. Afterwards, I'll mass produce a bunch more. Also working through my backlog of rifle brass and .45 ACP.

I'm also considering getting a progressive press as I'm starting to feel the pain with the giant box of brass. But all that will do is make me want to shoot more, which will incur even more pain to my wallet.