| | |  | Label Makers | Home » » » » Brother PT-1090 P-Touch Home & Family "Simply Stylish" Labeler | | | | | | | Description: | | Features 12 Deco Mode patterns to create stylish labels, a portable, ABC keyboard and "Feature Dial" The "Simply Stylish" PT-1090 features 12 "Deco Mode" patterns to create stylish labels. Portable, ABC keyboard and "Feature Dial". Offers 2-line print, built-in memory and Cable/Wire Labeling feature. Time & Date function for dated items. Prints on durable "TZ" tapes||. Number of Type Sizes: 3. Label Sizes: 9/64", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2". Number of Fonts: 1. Label Style: TZ Tape. Number of Type Styles: 9. | | | Features: | |
• 12 Deco Mode Patterns for extra-stylish labels
• Add time and date to your labels for food storage, etc.
• Cable labeling feature to organize your wires and cables
• Prints labels up to 1/2" wide on laminated indoor/outdoor TZ series tapes
• Built-in memory saves up to 9 of your favorite labels
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 10.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.6 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.7 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 22 reviews |
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87 of 88 found the following review helpful:
Organize Yourself, and Your Loved Ones, This Holiday Season.Dec 11, 2009
By Amber - Author,
"Renaissance Culinaire"
PROs:
A Stylish Way To Print --- The P-Touch 1090 offers many desirable options including a nice array of decorating styles and colors. You can even print your own clothing labels and iron them on - I will be doing this with all my aprons & chef hats. I liked the fact that the tape included when you purchase the P-Touch is indoor-outdoor laminated - so the labels are waterproof, this makes it perfect for kitchen projects.
Size Is Not A Problem --- This label maker is very ergonomic. I have small hands and didn't feel awkward when I was using it and was able to grasp it well. The P-Touch 1090 feels like it has some weight to it, but nothing that would tire out your hand or wrist. Everything is self contianed - no cords or extra materials to store.
Options Galore --- There are so many different options for tape colors - including gold on black , which makes using this label maker for entertaining projects ,so fun. The tape cartridge is easily added (remember the old typewriter word processers), just remove the back and position in the right shape.
I really liked the pictograph feature - it allows you to add different symbols to your text.
The button at the top acts as a lever to clip the labels you print - very easy & fast. Plus it's large enough for your children to use.
Cons:
Learning Curve Ahead --- Even with my geek savvy knowledge I had to fiddle around for awhile to grasp all the functions & combos - there isn't a preview function (unless you are doing text or using the "pictograph function", so you need to keep the design reference sheet very handy, otherwise you will make allot of labels you weren't quite "going" for.
A Tale of Too Many Tails --- I liked the cord label option allot, but unfortunately it is a design flaw - every time you print out a label, there will be a half inch unprinted tail protruding from your label. It isn't a big deal, but you end up cutting this everytime with scissors or an Exacto knife. And after printing your 100th label - multiply that by .5 and that equals allot of wasted tape.
Conclusion: If you are looking to get your feet wet with label making, without committing yourself to a pricey professional model, Brother's P-Touch 1090 is for you. This label maker offers a fun, ergonomic tool that has many options and can accommodate kids and adults. Just make sure you laminate the designs reference sheet, or keep it handy until you adjust to P-Touch 1090's learning curve.
38 of 39 found the following review helpful:
 Too expensive in the long run, features aren't worth it.Oct 07, 2010
By V. Kurkas
I'm a traveling geek so I bought this labeler to keep in my tech bag. I liked the cable label option a lot and that's what tipped the scales for me. However, in practice, it should be noted that the tape doesn't actually stick to cables. In addition, the half inch of excess tape is extremely wasteful. Adding insult to injury, the replacement cartridges for this model cost almost twice as much as replacements for other Brother P-touch models.
And just a bit of a peeve for me, the ridiculous number of buttons to press to get a simple hyphen... ugh.
Oh sure it's a nifty looking gadget with lots of features but you know, most of the time I'm just printing a quick label to stick on the side of a computer or some other device. Having to trim the excess tape in the field is just too much hassle for me. I'm ditching this model now that it's time to replace the cartridge.
34 of 36 found the following review helpful:
Great Label Maker, But Keep A Pair Of Scissors And The Reference Cards Near YouApr 18, 2010
By Chen Yee
"an Amazon customer"
I got this electronic labeler on sale for only $15 at Office Depot. It came with a roll of 16-ft black on white laminated labeling tape but it didn't come with batteries.
Pros:
The main features I like about the label printer is that is has the Deco Mode feature to print special designs for scrapbooking and birthday cards. Its display is very easy to read and the displayed icons are nice. It even has over 170 different symbols (a musical note symbol for my music downloads and a camera symbol for my photos) to pick from. I also like how there's 8 different frames to pick from too, so I can embellish my labels with stars, flowers, bubbles, etc. The date/time stamp thing with one keystroke comes in very handy, which is really convenient for installing batteries on smoke detectors for fire safety, and that's also good for indicating when was the last time I inflated the tires of my car to get a good gas mileage. I also don't even have to press a fn key to type numbers. It even prints very clearly (180 dots per inch). And finally, I can even preview to see how many inches of tape is used when the label's printed, but my Dymo doesn't have this feature.
Cons:
- However, the main thing is that although I set the margins to the narrowest setting (1/6 in on both sides), the printer still uses an additional inch on one end of the tape, so I do need a pair of scissors to trim off the one-inch leftover along the two black dots. This is the only reason I give the labeler 4 stars but having to trim off the leftover doesn't bother me. By the way, I'll give it 5 stars if the labeler doesn't use another inch of tape when I print a label.
- Also, the keyboard isn't in QWERTY (other people have complained about this), but I can still type efficiently using the alphabetical keyboard, so the non-QWERTY doesn't bother me either.
- Besides the leftover tape and the keyboard, when I want to insert a Pictograph symbol, such as a musical note or a telephone icon, the screen will just show something like A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, etc. instead of just the actual symbols printed on the reference card, so it's kind of awkward to me and that's another reason I give the labeler 4 stars. It'll be much better if Brother designs the screen with more vertical pixels to fit the actual symbols on the screen, so it'll make it a lot less awkward to me.
- The labeling tapes are also pretty expensive ($22 at Office Depot for a roll of 26.2 ft = 7.0 cents an inch), so I keep the margins and the widths of the letters and set to the narrowest, and I also verify and correct the spelling before I print. I won't regret the cost if I use the tape wisely and I use the narrow settings on my labeler. If I wanna label more things cheaply, I can label my things with pens and paper, so this is a good opportunity to practice my handwriting, especially in cursive because cursive is more natural and it's also a good and valuable skill for me to have.
- Finally, it will be better if Brother has the tapes available in more colors (up to 1/2 in wide), such as blue on white (curretly available in 3/4 in wide but not 1/2 in wide or narrower), green on white, lime green on black, magenta on white, purple on white, etc.
Tapes:
This labeler uses the TZ laminated labeling tapes, which they're more heat, cold, water, and abrasion resistant than the standard M tapes (not laminated). There's different colored tapes to pick from, but the labeler can accept tapes up to 1/2 inch wide.
Uses And Purposes:
I use it to backup my music I downloaded from iTunes and my photos of my vacations, family, and friends on my CD-Rs. I also label my file folders to organize my homework for my college classes. I also keep my things personalized, especially my water bottle because I expose it to water a lot and I don't want the water to ruin my name printed on the label. I even personalize my little sisters' school supplies to get them prepared for school. Finally, I even label the light switches around my parents' house.
Conclusion:
Overall, this item is very good for keeping my things well-organized, and I'm happy w/ it. So I recommend this device to my friends and family who wanna make their lives easier. But not really recommended for kids who need to practice their cursive handwriting, which is important in elementary and middle schools.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Useful but wastes a lot of tapeNov 23, 2010
By Worrier Fan
Got nice features and this thing can be had for cheap. Got mine for $9.99 at St@ples. Look for a sale and definitely DON'T pay more than $15 for this thing. Wait for a sale. Lots of nice features in a compact package. It was fairly easy to figure out how to use.
Bad thing about this, as others have mentioned, is that it uses WAYYYYY to much excess tapes. Even when you set the margins to "NARROW", it still prints out excess tape. About one inch on both sides. In fact, I don't think the margins settings does a damn thing.
Probably just Brother's evil plan to make you buy more tape. I'm half joking when I say that. Probably not even half. Would have given this thing 5 stars if not for that.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Good but not great.Aug 19, 2011
By J.Lane
"Bornagainscholar"
I was on a mission to set up my "Get Things Done" system and needed a label maker to get started. Over the course of a few weeks I went through 6 different machines (4 Brother's and 2 from another company which I wouldn't even waste my time writing about in this review) and learned a great deal about them. The most important thing I learned is many models Brother makes frequently go on sale and with a little patience you can get a really good deal on the mid priced machines. The Brother PT-1090 was one the two I would consider worth buying. My only 3 complaints about this machine are 1) I feel it is over priced compared to the features you get with a similar priced machine (but that is because of the size so if you need a portable one than that would not be an issue). 2) It consumes batteries much faster than most of the other machines I tried. That could become quite expensive if you use it a lot (there is an electric cord you can purchase for it but then you loose the convenience of portability). 3) The machine I had kept coming up with an error message "cutter error" which would stop my label short and then I would have to print the rest of that label before I could print another one that was complete. This happened with ever 3rd or 4th label. Seeing how expensive the tape is that was a major problem. This could have been an issue with the one I had and not be for others. I have had the same error with all of the Brothers I have tried but the machine I decided to keep it has only happened twice out of maybe 200 labels. What I loved about this machine was the fact that it has every feature I need and not many extra to waste my time with indecision. It is compact and can be carried easily. The design is much nicer so not as ugly to have sitting around the office or wherever you keep it. And like all of the Brother label makers it has a great warranty and a good company that will back that up.
A couple of notes: You need the instruction book handy in order to know what the different settings are such as what icon you might want to use. They are all categorized by a number within a group, they do not show the different icons on the machine making it impossible to just scroll through and find what you are looking for. This is also contrary to the portability and convenience. Although it was not a deal breaker for me because it was not that difficult to find what I needed and if you don't need cute icons all the time then you don't need the book all the time. Finally I am writing this when the price listed is $19.99 that is a great price compared to the usual price you can find this item for which I typically see around the $30 mark. In the beginning of the review I mentioned it is over priced compared to others. That is true at $30 but not so true for $19.99. The machine I ended up keeping was the Brother PT-2030 which is usually $49.99 but found it on sale for $19.99 and have seen it on sale for that same price a few times since I purchased it. I love it!
I hope this review helps. If I missed something you are concerned with just leave a comment and I will reply as quickly as possible in order to help you make an informed decision on your purchase. Thank you.
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