I recently bought a NEW Dymo labeler (for continuity's sake amongst my comic collection boxes) and was horrified to discover that the new "guns" and "fonts" create labels that have letter-spacing 2/3 again the size of the machines from the sixties and seventies. You wouldn't happen to have an older model you'd like to trade for a brand new one, would you?
I just found a family heirloom that was labeled by a Dymo tapewriter, and a wave of nostalgia came over me - for those wonderful 'old days' when we still had time to quietly sit and press out our labels one letter at a time. That is still my favourite type of label. I have a drawer full of 'modern' labels of different shapes, sizes, textures and coloures, but none of them hold a candle to those good-to-the-touch embossed ones. I hope they will not disappear completely. I think I will purchase one - for old times' sake. I may also try it out as a strategy to teach kids spelling - it is a multi-modal strategy that may well be very helpful. It's worth investigating. If it works, I will recommend it to teachers and parents of spelling-challenged children.
Marleane
I recently bought a NEW Dymo
I recently bought a NEW Dymo labeler (for continuity's sake amongst my comic collection boxes) and was horrified to discover that the new "guns" and "fonts" create labels that have letter-spacing 2/3 again the size of the machines from the sixties and seventies. You wouldn't happen to have an older model you'd like to trade for a brand new one, would you?
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Nostalgia
I just found a family heirloom that was labeled by a Dymo tapewriter, and a wave of nostalgia came over me - for those wonderful 'old days' when we still had time to quietly sit and press out our labels one letter at a time. That is still my favourite type of label. I have a drawer full of 'modern' labels of different shapes, sizes, textures and coloures, but none of them hold a candle to those good-to-the-touch embossed ones. I hope they will not disappear completely. I think I will purchase one - for old times' sake. I may also try it out as a strategy to teach kids spelling - it is a multi-modal strategy that may well be very helpful. It's worth investigating. If it works, I will recommend it to teachers and parents of spelling-challenged children.
Marleane