App Profile: Brother iPrint&Label

Aldengiacopu

Rating: 5/5

This is about the only printing device I own that is over three years old and still working! These Products are built well, the app has many features that I use for my both my business and Personal life. I use “I print label” just about every day! Everything in my office is labeled and everything in my house is labeled. I have never liked my handwriting so I really love having this printer to label everything from taxes to flour. This labeler has been a life changer!

SVFWF

Rating: 3/5

Oh my sweet Jesus GOOD LUCK trying to ever resize a text window. It takes literally ten tries to grab the stupid corner anchor that lets you RESIZE a text box (or whatever else) instead of dragging the entire box around - which it will do if you’re so much as ten microns off target. Definition of hostile UI. I hope you’re able to use your finger to select the two-freakin-pixel-radius area that activates the RESIZE instead of drag command. I’m not joking that this one thing alone makes using this thing and creating different labels take about four times longer than it should. Its a constant hassle. It’s sufficiently stupid that I would sell my brother label printer in a heartbeat for an alternative that didn’t do this one thing. Alas, brother label printers (and their awful software) are the worst - except for all the others. So I guess grin and bear it. Maybe in another, oh I don’t know, eight hundred friggin years the rest of the developed world will FINALLY click their brain cells together to create UIs for things like this that aren’t complete garbage. If we’re lucky.

I believe in Punk Rock

Rating: 2/5

I would like to see this app improved with a number of things. For one, having the same menu of fonts that are on the D610BT as the ones that are in the app. Another is having alignment tools when creating custom labels, let me enter in multiple text boxes, select them all, and then align them with a command. A third is having templates that aren’t cryptic with how to enter in numbers that repeat into multiple text boxes. I have no idea how to change some of the templates that are provided in this app and I have an extensive background with graphic design software. A third is having more intuitive ways of applying a font style to a whole template rather than one text box at a time for a label. This app is a good start but definitely needs a lot more help to make it amazing. For now it’s just crummy, painful software.