Dymo label printers have DRM on their paper rolls.
Dymo label printers have DRM on their paper rolls.
Don't buy the new Dymo 550 or 5XL label printers, they now use DRM NFC/RFID technology in the paper rolls to force you into using their labels at 10 TIMES the cost! BUSTED UPDATE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwggIw2HQuQ EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-...
Recently learned this the hard way, by recommending a Dymo to one of my clients. They've had constant issues with it. Even with official Dymo labels, it constantly has problems, fails to detect the NFC chip in the roll, claims that the roll is empty or that we're not using authentic labels... Dymo has now sent TWO replacements and all 3 have the same issues. Insanity
I briefly looked into some hacky fixes but there's nothing I'd trust in prod
We have them set up with a Zebra now and they haven't had a single issue since
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