The Epson LabelWorks LW-PX900PCD is the company’s largestprinter—and arguably as large as just a handheld printer can get. It’s a step up first from Epson LabelWorks LW-PX700 and is best in moderate to heavy-duty commercial labeling.
The capacity to handle wider tape, up to 36mm, is the primary difference between them, and the cause you might want to bump up your budget from $299 for the LW-PX900 or alone $379 for the LW-PX900PCD Deluxe Kit described here (1.42 inches). The LW-PX900 is also somewhat faster, has higher resolution, it supports die-cut tapes, making it a more capable labeler than the LW-PX700 and pushing it beyond the Brady BMP41 for an industrial label printer.
The Epson LabelWorks LW-PX900PCD, like its smaller brother, has a handle solely on a single end to make carrying the 2.78-pound printer simpler. It has a similar general design to the LW-PX700 and is similar in size to a Brady BMP41 and BMP21-Plus, which means its size fluctuates based on where you measure it.
At its longest, the Epson’s depth (or length) was around 11.6 inches. The handle is roughly 5.4 inches in diameter at its widest point, towards the top from across the 3.2-inch LCD, and 3.75 inches in width at its narrowest point. When seated on a flat surface, the top panel slides down and makes the screen easier to understand and the QWERTY keyboard simpler to type on. Its height and thickness are around 3.5 inches at the screen as well as an inch less at the end of the handle. Although the printer can be held both in hands for thumb typing, you will feel it to be too hefty to handle comfortably for lengthy periods.
The printer is primarily black with red accents, with white for several function keys & lime green again for the Print key as well as the label slot. Change settings, define labels for patch panels & flag labels (with a small signal sticking out from the wire), and save and load up to 100 label entries to/from onboard memory are among the special functions.
The following is a typical physical setup: Simply insert the tape cartridge and then either 6 AA batteries or even the lithium battery (available separately for $79 or as part of Deluxe Kit) into the machine. The Kit version, which we tried, also comes with an AC adaptor for charging the lithium-ion battery, which Epson claims would last for about 4 30-foot cartridges full of labels per charge. You can carry an extra battery or AA batteries as a backup or use AC power. The cord on the power adapter is just over 12 feet long.
The printer comes with just an AC adaptor but one tape cartridge when purchased separately. A hard-shell carrying case ($59.99 separately) and a minimum of 2 industrial magnets ($21) that plug into the printer’s bottom so it can attach to any handy ferromagnetic surface are included in the whole package for the price of an optional battery plus a dollar.
Epson currently supplies 150 tape cartridges for such Epson LabelWorks LW-PX900PCD, bringing the total number of varieties and widths offered for the LW-PX700 to roughly 30. Approximately half of them are 30-foot conventional plastic (polyester) tapes in various print and background color combinations with widths ranging from 4mm through 36mm (0.16 inches – 1.42 inches). Prices for 12mm and smaller width cartridges are $20.85, $24.85 for 18mm & 24mm (0.71 through 0.94 inch) widths, as well as $34.50 with 36mm widths. Because they’re all continuous rolls, your pricing per label may vary depending on the label size.
Silver matte; magnetic tapes; tapes with strong adhesive; vinyl, heat-shrink tube tapes for cables; fluorescent, and reflective tapes; self-laminating overwrap tapes for wires with a clear, unprintable region to intersect the printed text; & rolls with circular, oval, & rectangular die-cut labels make up the other half of your label options. The length, price, and a number of options for every type of specialized tape differ.
The Epson LabelWorks LW-PX900PCD, like the LW-PX700, allows Windows laptop and desktop users to download and print using Epson’s Label Editor program (version 2.04), which also includes a driver that allows you to print from those other Windows apps. Label Editor. macOS, on the other hand, does not support printing.
Except for the possibility to utilize bigger cassettes and tapes having die-cut labels, printing without the need for a linked PC is identical to printing from the LW-PX700. Up to 100 label definitions can be saved and retrieved, as well as the ability to print bar codes and QR codes, print in a horizontal and vertical orientation, print labels in mirror image, using any of 859 industrial & professional symbols. The Drop Halt option is a very pleasant touch: turn it on, and when you print numerous labels with such a single command, the printer will stop after each label is cut and wait for you all to remove this from the outlet slot before printing the next one.
The device’s print speed with AC power is 35mm and 1.38 inches per second, according to Epson (IPS). That’s over three times quicker than the Brady BMP21-Plus’s 0.4ips rating, and just marginally quicker than that of the LW-PX700 (1.18ips) & Brady BMP41 (1.3ips).
The speed is reduced to 0.89ips when you configure it for half cuts between labels, so allows you to pull single labels off from continuous strips of backing material after printing (including the final cut at the end). When testing with battery or AC power, the times were the same.
Note that the unit’s 360dpi resolution is twice as high as most printers in this class and somewhat higher than the BMP41’s 300dpi. The increased resolution won’t matter on most labels. But it did deliver clean, readable 5-point writing when you print five pages of text on a tape that was just less than half an inch wide.
The LabelWorks LW-PX900 has the benefit of a lifetime warranty, which includes accidental breakage. The MIL-STD-810 four-foot drop test was also passed by the Epson LabelWorks LW-PX900PCD. Although both Epsons have nearly identical Windows printing programs and built-in features. The LW-PX900 seems to be the only printer in this group that can print to tape wider than 1 inch.
The LW-PX900 is less costly & remains our best option. It is indeed the printer for you.
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