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 have a DYMO-MITE it is still in the box with orginal tape, instructions, and the Certicficate of Warranty it's a beauty. One of my patient's gave it to me a couple of years ago to put labels on my garden. I love it so much that I don't want to use it. I will just hang on to it and share my story with my Children.
My mother was a librarian, until she retired in the middle 1980s due to back trouble. She used vast amounts of Dymo tape to label the cupboards, and everything else. She had that exact "gun-type" labeller you illustrate near the bottom of the article. I used to "borrow" it and pretend it was a ray-gun.
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
Meridith
I have a DYMO-MITE it is still in the box with orginal tape, instructions, and the Certicficate of Warranty it's a beauty. One of my patient's gave it to me a couple of years ago to put labels on my garden. I love it so much that I don't want to use it. I will just hang on to it and share my story with my Children.
Did you see them in libraries?
My mother was a librarian, until she retired in the middle 1980s due to back trouble. She used vast amounts of Dymo tape to label the cupboards, and everything else. She had that exact "gun-type" labeller you illustrate near the bottom of the article. I used to "borrow" it and pretend it was a ray-gun.