Brother

Brother ColAura Color Photo and Label Printer

$146.81
(2.33) 2.33 stars out of 12 reviews 12 reviews
$146.81
$146.81
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Brother ColAura Color Photo and Label Printer

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2.33 out of 5stars
(12 reviews)
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Most helpful positive review

5.00 out of 5 stars review
Verified Purchaser
11/06/2020
Love it! So versatile!
I LOVE this little label printer! I was so excited for it to be delivered. My son is a young business man. He tends chickens and is a Beekeeper. This label printer is perfect to create his business labels and just as perfect for any other labeling project. The labels are high quality. The app for the printer keeps track of how much length is left in the label roll, so that NO partial labels print unknowingly. Again, I LOVE this label printer with the ZINK label cartridges!!
Unhappy

Most helpful negative review

1.00 out of 5 stars review
Verified Purchaser
02/11/2021
Quality is fantastic
Out of the box it was time consuming to install drivers and software . It's not plug and play and its not click and print. When I installed the APP on iPad or iPhone you have to go to the wireless settings and select the VC-500W from the available WiFi list, therefore your device is tied up and you cannot switch between apps to do searches , check mail or other tasks. It's actually a pain. Print quality is unbelievable and right as soon as i got up and running i made some sweet long and short 2” labels.So i am giving a high performance rating for printing only, connectivity and setup, i am giving the device an one star out of five. It's not worth the money and time.
Shant234
  • 1.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    10/12/2021
    Very poorly engineered
    Teriible drivers and UX, just like all their products. Can't get AirPrint to work at all. Never buy a Brother printer
    diaspointed_user
  • 1.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    04/02/2021
    Difficult to use
    It was so complicated to get it connected. I watched YouTube videos read the instructions did everything it says but it kept saying it was connected. Once I finally got it connected after an hour it said the cassette wasn't inserted properly so I fiddled with that for another 20 mins. Once I got the cassette in properly it went back to saying that it wasn't connected. By this time I was really irritated so I gave it 1 more shot then it worked! I did a test print of one of its images and it printed with lines. So I thought maybe it just needs to warm up to be able to print clear but after 4-5 prints it kept printing with lines. The lines weren't crazy bad but they were noticeable. The other thing that was kind of annoying was how much the other size cassettes cost.
    Haley
  • 2.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    03/28/2021
    Not worth the money!
    Printer quality is decent. The App is horrible. Very difficult to use. You can only use with a phone or iPad. You cannot use a computer. When the placing the amount of inches I want to print, the app keeps diverting to 5.69 inches for some reason. Apps seems very outdated. Apps freezes and all info gets deleted. The features are cool but it nothing you can't get elsewhere! Not happy with my purchase.
    Tiff
  • 3.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    03/03/2021
    Interesting little printer
    I have to agree with another review that out of the box it was time consuming to install drivers and software. It's not plug and play and its not click and print. I also found it difficult to hook up as a wired (usb) printer. It seems they are pushing for their app style printing with this device then on a PC computer. I am also not impressed with the color. Color is off on label compared to the computer. I printed a deep blue and the color printed out muted or lighter blue on the label. While I like the small simple design and the inkless feature there are some things that need to be tweeked in order for this be be better in my option.
    Farnsworth
  • 2.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    02/19/2021
    Too Thick
    I find that that the label paper is way to thick to add to product containers. You can clearly see the label and it soo thick that it is visible and can lift off product containers quite easily. I think the label paper could be a bit thinner. It also takes very long to print one label.
    Flrncwats
  • 1.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    02/11/2021
    Quality is fantastic
    Out of the box it was time consuming to install drivers and software . It's not plug and play and its not click and print. When I installed the APP on iPad or iPhone you have to go to the wireless settings and select the VC-500W from the available WiFi list, therefore your device is tied up and you cannot switch between apps to do searches , check mail or other tasks. It's actually a pain. Print quality is unbelievable and right as soon as i got up and running i made some sweet long and short 2” labels.So i am giving a high performance rating for printing only, connectivity and setup, i am giving the device an one star out of five. It's not worth the money and time.
    Shant234
  • 1.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    01/24/2021
    Trash
    I wish I had listed to the reviews but I thought. I bought this hoping to make labels for my products. I spend two days trying to get this thing setup. Had to call Brother for assistance. They couldn't get it to work either. Sent me a refurbished one (After I paid full price). Once it finally started working, I had to turn it off every time I needed to print a new label. Printed about 7 labels then it stopped working. Don't waist your time or money.
    Terrie
  • 3.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    12/04/2020
    Misalignment and color not the same as app
    Tested my new printer and was really excited to get labels I can put on bottles. The labels are great but two things I noticed I am not completely satisfied on: 1. Frames - either the label is off or the printing is... when I do a full frame that should bleed to the edges - the top is cropped a bit and the bottom has white trim. Wish there was a way to adjust frames because I was really excited to use the frames included in the app. 2. Color - Color is more vibrant on the app then on the label - using either Vivid or Standard mode. A true purple color printed magenta and a true pink background printed like a peachy pink color. Also where I tested using a frame - the start of the printing on the right edge looked faded than the rest.
    Marie
  • 5.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    11/06/2020
    Love it! So versatile!
    I LOVE this little label printer! I was so excited for it to be delivered. My son is a young business man. He tends chickens and is a Beekeeper. This label printer is perfect to create his business labels and just as perfect for any other labeling project. The labels are high quality. The app for the printer keeps track of how much length is left in the label roll, so that NO partial labels print unknowingly. Again, I LOVE this label printer with the ZINK label cartridges!!
    Unhappy
  • 2.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    10/24/2020
    Got this for making small labels but...
    I thought this would be the perfect printer for making small labels for my products since I need to put specific ingredients on there and make many custom blends. The text was not readable! I thought the whole point of a small label printer was to make small labels. I had to keep increasing the size of the text until it was readable and this just made it too big to fit what I needed to fit. The smallest font I could do was 4pt bold text like arie. Yes that is a small font but considering that the smallest label width is 9mm it should be able to handle 4pt font that isn't bold and thick. Thin fonts don't print well even at 12pt sometimes 15pt depending on the font. Very disappointing, I had to change all of my label designs. Set up is a pain, and I had issues loading one of the cartridges but not any other sizes. The app for label making is very bad.. you're better off making it in another program and uploading the image. I couldn't use the desktop version of the program because I don't have a cd drive for my mac laptop. I wasn't even able to pair the device to two different devices.The labels don't stick well to glass and get ruined and discolored if any alcohol gets on them. Not sure if they are advertised as being resistant to that but you can't really use it on a label for a body splash or anything like that. I haven't tested it with just water or just oil yet. I can still use the printer and I don't have many other options in this price range, but the paper is very expensive which would be fine if it printed the text how I want it. It's just frustrating that a label maker specifically made to make small labels can print small text clearly.
    Joanna
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