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When I rebuild my system I tend to use masking tape with hand written labels as to which cable connects to what
After assembly I remove the tape as I don’t want tape residue on cable terminations.
Would like something that prints neat small labels that I can permanently leave on the cables.
Suggestions?
David
I worked in a data center and we used P-Touch label makers to identify coax and fiber cabling. I can’t recall the exact model but their label makers work great.
Dymo LetraTag.
About £30. Maybe less, if there are any Black Friday deals from your favourite online retailers.
Anyone have pics of the labels and where they attach?
I’ve have a dymo Rhino 4200 that i originally bought to use for creating network cable labels for work. As well as general labelling features it has a specific cable labelling function, which prints the label text repeatedly across the width of the label tape( the 4200 takes up to 19mm wide label tape), so the text repeats multiple times around the cable. (you tell the machine the diameter of the cable so it knows what length of tape to print on to allow the label to wrap about twice around the cable). Flexible nylon is the best tape type for the purpose.
I have not used it for any hifi labels, but here is a pic of my network “corner” in my study.
If you have no other uses for a cable labeller it is probably a bit of a big outlay just for hifi cables. I seem to recall paying about £60 when i bought mine, but looking online and the price is now well north of £100 sadly.
I have Phomemo Label printer which cost £10 off Ebay , about the size of a mobile pnoe and prints supplied labels from an iPhone App Also rechargeable via USB cable Works fine for low volume usage
An additional need I have with labelling cables is being able to identify them in the difficult to access space behind my built in rack. My solution is to to wrap thin strips of colour coded electrical tape every 6 to 8 inches along the length of each cable. The 552 Burndy is yellow, the 300 Burndies are purple, and so on. The power cable for each box gets a pair of thin strips in the corresponding colour. Works well enough apart from the need to keep track of the various colours.
