Epson TM-C3500 Product Review - Industrial Color Label Printer 

If you're looking for a durable, affordable, fast, no bleed, color labeling this is the printer for you.

The Epson TM-C3500 label printer (also called ColorWorks C3500) is an industrial color label printer commonly utilized to print product labels, food labels, ingredient labels, carton box labels, event tickets, wristbands, title and ID badges, retail tags, inventory tags, bar-codes and GHS chemical labels. Flexibility and durability are the titles of the match with this cheap and versatile color label printer.

Epson TM-C3500 label printers are terrific for high mix, low volume applications, which makes them ideal for smaller businesses that have to print an assortment of label and tags types, but not always in large volumes.

With its ability to quickly print lasting, smudge-free color labels on demand and on an assortment of media, the Epson TM-C3500 label printer is a popular option for business, warehousing, retailing, manufacturing, transport, and special event applications.

Many businesses these days are using direct thermal and thermal transfer printers, which can only print black and white labels in 200 dpi to 300 dpi normally. A number of these businesses also need to add color to their labels; they will get the Epson TM-C3500 a excellent printer because they can print full color labels plus boost their printing quality to 720 dpi. With the TM-C3500 they're now able to add color to their labels and even color code their labels, making stock identification and management in warehouse simpler.

The TM-C3500 excels in printing smudge-free, instantly dried color labels, tags, barcodes, tickets, name badges and wristbands on demand. It's a versatile, compact unit which allows for a number of labeling applications -- such as printing GHS BS5609 labels. Additionally, it prints these labels quickly at 4 inches per second.

With its maximum resolution of 720 dpi, the Epson TM-C3500 label printer isn't as well suited to printing product labels as some of the other color label printers in this price range. Its pigment inks are less vibrant than the dye inks used by "prime" label printers. Having said that, the TM-C3500 isn't designed to be a prime product label. Its intended use is as an industrial printer in which high print resolutions are less important. For industrial applications, the Epson TM-C3500 label printer it excels.

Another drawback is that the Epson TM-C3500 label printer can only print labels up to 4.1 inches wide.

Consistently get published samples with your layouts so you can see the print quality with any printer you're contemplating. That's the only way you will know for certain if this printer will satisfy your needs.

The Epson TM-C3500 ongoing costs consist of Blank Labels and substitute ink cartridges along with a maintenance box that collects wasted ink. So far as ink prices go, the TM-C3500 uses individual cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink cartridges to conserve ink and maintain ink prices lower than single cartridge systems. The Epson TM-C3500, like all Epson ColorWorks label printers, has an extremely low ink cost per label. Additionally, there is no print head replacement price.