DYMO Label Writer 450 Twin Turbo Direct Thermal Label Printer, 1 Count

I've used DYMO Label Software for years. Then, I made the mistake of cutting over to the new Connect Software. Yes - a BIG mistake. Where the heck did all my labels go?! Over a 100 labels, and this software doesn't even have the decency to import from the old package!!! The old stuff was intuitive and easy to use. This new stuff is so bad that I have no choice but to scrape it off the bottom of my shoe and go back to the old software. The printer itself is great, but the software kills it. It may be time to go with a different brand of label maker. DYMO should be ashamed of this crap.

I have been using this label printer for years on a Win7 PC with NO issues at all. I actually own 3. After many years of straight forward usage I was left beyond dissapointed. First the postage printing vendor changed the rules and left me with $100 of useless postage supplies, but that was ok still because I could still print labels. However, when I was forced to upgrade to Windows 10 and saw the new version of the software the 5-star dropped to a No-Star. It used to integrate with an Outlook plug-in, and allowed for very simple easy to use, on-the-fly adjustments - worked like a charm. Now I have to log-in to O365 every time I want to pull-in a contact record. I cannot quickly batch select from my outlook contacts. Perfect product if you print one label many times, but otherwise I don't understand the decision to make this software useless. I am so annoyed with trying to print 20 labels that I gave up just to come write this review. I may as well go back to buying Avery label sheets...

Since this only comes with USB, I have it set up on a generic print server. I can add the printer just fine in Windows, I can print from Microsoft Word but none of the Dymo Connect software works. It sees the printer (twice!), it claims to print but nothing works. Additionally, in every version of Dymo connect, the "change label size" button does nothing, so you are stuck with the generic tiny address label.

Have had several problems like the address correction suddenly stopped working a while back. Then it started to print three to six blank labels when I printed a single label. Now I just heard the printer turn on by itself (I was in another room) and by the time I got to the printer to check on it it had printed the entire roll of labels with thin horizontal and vertical lines. What has happened to this once fine company?

I had been using a Labelwriter Twin Turbo printer with the Dymo Label Software 8.7.3 and recently purchased a 450 Twin Turbo and installed the new Dymo Connect software (v 1.1). I use lots of software and this is probably one of the worst I have ever encountered. Where to start. Ok, the UI is counter-intuitive and needlessly overcomplicated and convoluted; On the bottom left of the screen is an indication of which side of the printer is in use, which can be changed by clicking on an up-arrow and changing the side. On the bottom right is an indication of a label, which, unfortunately does not change when you change printer sides, so this control is useless (it only indicates which label was last printed); You need to go to the top and click "New" to choose the printer side and the correct label and start the whole label creation process all over; When you type an address on a label, even though Auto Fit is enabled, type will not auto fit on the label. Instead, it is entered into a small text box which prints tiny text on the label. In order to enlarge the text, you need to drag the boundaries of the box to the edges of the label; Most of the time the Address Fixer either does not work or gives crazy results; There is no way to add an Intelligent Mail Barcode to an address. These are but a few examples and I could go on, and on, but IMO, this software feels like an early Beta and I am uninstalling it and going back to Dymo Label Software 8.7.3.