BROTHER VC-500WCR Design and Craft Thermal Printer VC500WCRZU1, Card Making, Scrapbooks, Wedding Decorations, AirPrint, UK Plug

Price: £159.99
(as of Sep 11,2024 13:20:13 UTC – From the brand

What is EcoPro?

EcoPro is an ink and toner subscription service for your Brother printer which automatically orders and delivers ink and toner to you when you need them – at a fraction of the cost of buying them separately. Starting from just £1.99 per month, simply select your plan based on how much you print and never worry about running out of ink and toner again.

Sign up for EcoPro subscription at brother.co.uk/ecopro

EcoPro ready printers

Business printers

Small office & home printers

All-in-Box printers

PRINT FULL COLOUR LABELS: The Brother Design ‘n’ Craft printer uses cutting-edge technology to guarantee a professional, full colour finish on every craft project – without the need for ink.
SIMPLE TO USE: It’s simple to use and gives you complete creative freedom – whether you’re making cards, gifts, or home decorations, they’ll be unmistakably yours and can be customised to suit the lucky recipient.
WIFI CONNECTIVITY: Connect your VC-500W to your router and print from your smartphone or mobile devices on the free Brother Color Label Editor app from anywhere around the home.
VARIETY OF SIZES: Available in five different widths, Brother’s full colour label rolls guarantee a professional finish for every project. Available in 9mm, 12mm, 19mm, 25mm and 50mm widths.
LABELS THE LENGTH YOU REQUIRE: Brother’s unique continuous roll technology allows you to create labels up to 50cm in length, meaning you can create the perfect size label for your craft project.
AIRPRINT BUILT IN: If you’re using an Apple product with AirPrint, you can use it to print in full quality without downloading or installing any other software. Just pick what you want to print, tap and send it straight to the printer over your device’s Wi-Fi connection.
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Reviewer: David Garfield
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love this little toy
Review: When I say ‘toy’ I mean that it’s not a professional label printer that you would choose for a work setting. It’s very slow and the labels are eye-wateringly expensive. It’s designed for the hobbyist and for occasional use, but in that role it’s delightful.It’s s thermal printer, which means that no inks are involved. Rather cleverly the label material is impregnated with chemicals that produce a different colours, based upon the temperature that’s applied to any particular pixel. So the print head delivers heat to areas of the label at different temperatures as dictated by the image that the you have used in your design. This does, however, mean that printing is slow. It also accounts for the high cost of the label rolls.But you can produce labels with full colour images, but don’t expect high-resolution pictures of the quality you’d get from a photo printer.The smartphone app has a library of clip art and a respectable selection of fonts, together with a range of background patterns that you can apply. You can also use your own photos, which you can select from your picture library on your phone. Theoretically you can also use GIFs with transparent backgrounds so that you can create your own clip art, but I have found this to be hit and miss. Some GIFs I have created in Photoshop overlay perfectly with transparent backgrounds and others (frustratingly) come in with white backgrounds even though they’re created in exactly the same way.The app itself is pretty good (I’m using the IoS version) but it lacks a couple of a features that are pretty basic.Some missing features are:o The ability to flip a clipart item horizontally so that you can place them at either end of an image to make a ‘bookend’ layout.o The ability to import your own art into the library so that you can reuse it easily.o The ability to create custom folders into which you can place your saved labels.The colours, in particular with photographs, are acceptable but not very accurate. Browns, in particular, appear to be muted, but again anyone trying to produce proper photos on this is going to be disappointed. There are videos on YouTube showing uses that this printer can be put to, such as producing components for art projects. I am using it for several purposes and am finding it rewarding and fun to use.If Brother put some more effort into making the app more fully-featured that would be a great improvement, but it’s by no means bad as it is. But overall the app is very useable. It uses your home WiFi to connect your smart device to the printer, and you can also connect it to your Windows PC or Mac via a USB cable and then use Brother’s P Touch application to produce your content.Overall I like this system very much and am having too much fun with it for my wife’s liking. I think she’s worried she’ll come downstairs one morning and see labels like ‘Kettle’, ‘Toaster’, etc on the household appliances.

Reviewer: Charles Holder
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It wont connect.
Review: I can not rate the printer. It was sold from Amazon Warehouse, so that should be a warning to everyone. It did not come in an original box, and I spent several hours trying to connect this printer to my Wi-Fi. Id did not connect (I have another Brother printer connected, so my system was working fine). I tried to contact Brother to see if they could help but I might as well have tried to find a rocking horse to help me. I contacted Amazon who just offered me a refund. I sent it back and it arrived with Amazon on May 4th. Because I did not want to have the refund made to my Amazon account, they are deliberately making me wait until the 11th for my refund. So, a bad show all round. mostly by Amazon who have sent out a returned item that was obviously faulty and are now making me wait for my own money.

Reviewer: Dr Wade Ackley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great little printer, very professional vendor, good experience
Review: I purchased this printer a couple of weeks back – I used 3WM Office Supplies and for those considering making a purchase I would highly recommend using 3WM. I have owned a VC-500W before, sadly it was broken during an office accident but was very happy with it. I have a new product being launched and as per the past this printer was great for launch items which fit the size parameters this printer works to, which I believe is 50mm (H) – I also used both 26mm and 19mm iirc. Sadly upon receiving the printer and changing the label sizing slightly it did not look as expected, so I had to return it. The vendor 3WM were extremely professional at all times – I also have the Brother PT P900W which I purchased from 3WM over a year ago which I am very happy with – and when dealing with the return and refund, were very quick in all communication and dealt with return and refund promptly and efficiently.This printer is tiny in physical form, yes it may appear expensive but it is a reliable bit of kit and you will, if using for work purposes, get a return back in time. Excellent print quality – do not expect the quality of a professional printers, but for small batch runs, product start ups, it is superb. Hopefully if you do use it for products you are newly launching, that they sell very well, at which point you will likely need the use of a professional printers, by then however the printer should have paid for itself.Overall great product, great vendor, shame the product, this time around, did not quite meet my requirements.

Reviewer: Jose L. Marcos
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Malgré une série d’essais, de changement de cartouche de nettoyage de la tête d’impression… impossible d’obtenir une impression correcte d’une simple étiquette bleue / verte / jaune.Le résultat est plutôt mauve / vert bouteille / orange comme montre sur les photos.Je ne recommande pas ce produit

Reviewer: Alessandro B.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: La stampante è buona, la risoluzione è buona, i colori non sono fedelissimi ma direi che il tutto è più che accettabile e si possono fare belle stampe. Non è veloce, ma non dovendo stampare etichette in quantità va benissimo.Unico neo che mi sento di segnalare è che l’installazione non è fra le più semplici, soprattutto se volete collegarla al Wifi, ma basta seguire le istruzioni e tutto va secondo i piani.Una volta installata va benissimo.Il problema per me invece è stato un altro, che la stampante inviata era con ogni probabilità un reso, e questa cosa non mi è piaciuta per niente. I sigilli erano ovviamente tutti tagliati, all’interno i cavi erano arrotolati in qualche modo, le fascette non c’erano più, la pellicola protettiva della stampante mezza staccata, e mancavano del tutto le istruzioni (il comparto istruzioni all’interno del coperchio della scatola era vuoto).Dato che come ho detto l’installazione non è semplicissima e quindi le istruzioni sono fondamentali, per poterla installare sono dovuto andare sul sito Brother e scaricare il PDF.Ora, niente di chè, però siccome era venduta come nuova, tutto ciò non mi è molto piaciuto.Ultima cosa, ok che nel titolo c’è scritto “provenienza inghilterra”, però l’alimentatore ha solo la spina inglese, io un adattatore in confezione l’avrei inserito, giusto per mettere il cliente in condizioni di utilizzarla subito.Detto questo, ripeto, la stampante funziona bene e alla fine ne sono contento.

From the brand

What is EcoPro?

EcoPro is an ink and toner subscription service for your Brother printer which automatically orders and delivers ink and toner to you when you need them – at a fraction of the cost of buying them separately. Starting from just £1.99 per month, simply select your plan based on how much you print and never worry about running out of ink and toner again.

Sign up for EcoPro subscription at brother.co.uk/ecopro

EcoPro ready printers

Business printers

Small office & home printers

All-in-Box printers

PRINT FULL COLOUR LABELS: The Brother Design ‘n’ Craft printer uses cutting-edge technology to guarantee a professional, full colour finish on every craft project – without the need for ink.
SIMPLE TO USE: It’s simple to use and gives you complete creative freedom – whether you’re making cards, gifts, or home decorations, they’ll be unmistakably yours and can be customised to suit the lucky recipient.
WIFI CONNECTIVITY: Connect your VC-500W to your router and print from your smartphone or mobile devices on the free Brother Color Label Editor app from anywhere around the home.
VARIETY OF SIZES: Available in five different widths, Brother’s full colour label rolls guarantee a professional finish for every project. Available in 9mm, 12mm, 19mm, 25mm and 50mm widths.
LABELS THE LENGTH YOU REQUIRE: Brother’s unique continuous roll technology allows you to create labels up to 50cm in length, meaning you can create the perfect size label for your craft project.
AIRPRINT BUILT IN: If you’re using an Apple product with AirPrint, you can use it to print in full quality without downloading or installing any other software. Just pick what you want to print, tap and send it straight to the printer over your device’s Wi-Fi connection.