Brother QL-820NWB vs Brother QL-810W

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Frank B – Toledo, OH

We are going to do an unboxing of the Brother QL810W wireless thermal label printer. This printer does not use ink, it does not use toner, it is a thermal printer meaning it uses heat onto a chemical paper that creates an image or a text or a barcode for your label needs. This is not a comprehensive review, this is not a comprehensive tutorial, this is me getting my hands on it for the first time doing an unboxing some test prints, a little tinkering and my initial impressions. I will be coming out with a thorough review in the future, maybe some comparisons, maybe some tutorials which will help to solve specific problems. This printer does retail for about a hundred and forty dollars on Amazon when it is in stock including accessories. There is a cheaper one that is USB only and there’s a more expensive one that has Bluetooth and an Ethernet networking port accessories. I will put links to this printer and those printers in the description if you want to check them out. However, the Brother QL printers do frequently sell out, so if you see them in stock and it’s the printer that you want, make sure to grab it with free shipping..

Address Labels

This is the competitor to the Dymo 400 series, the 450 Turbo, the 450, and now even the 500 series and the 500 Turbo. It has narrow formatting only up to 2.4 inches wide, so it’s not going to print your standard 4×6 shipping labels. However, it will print a 2×7 label. It’ll have no problem printing your Amazon barcode labels for your products. You could print address labels for Christmas cards and I’ve also been experimenting with resizing a 4×6 label, but I still haven’t gotten that shipping dialed in yet.
Thank you guys so much for watching. If you haven’t already, please take a moment out of your day to give the video a thumbs up with paper tape. If you aren’t already subscribed to the channel, consider subscribing. If you have any questions about this printer throughout the video, throw them in the comments section and let’s get into the unboxing the accessories. Supposedly, this printer can actually print in black and red which I don’t know if there’s anything similar to that with Dymo or Zebra. If it’s a chemical within the paper or if it’s actually something within the printer, it’s probably just a chemical in the paper to be honest.
This is a 300 dpi printer, can print up to 110 address labels per minute, it says, and it uses these DK style labels which are convenient that you drop them in but they also are a little bit more expensive because they use this black square proprietary design which you will see later on in the video.

Brother Label Printer

Let’s open this printer, set it up, and check out the accessories. One of the perks of this printer over other printers is that it’s going to work with Mac, PC, and I’m going to be able to print from my Android phone or an Apple device. So let’s get this open. I got the power supply, looks like I got a USB. Very nicely packed. We got the printer itself right here, another roll of labels, and some paperwork.
Here’s the printer itself. Looks like we got a power button, a feed button, a cut button. This printer uses a blade to cut after your label is finished or at the end of your print. There’s an editor light button which I really don’t know what that does. Looks like there’s a Wi-Fi button to toggle the Wi-Fi on and off and a WPS button which we will use to set up the wireless networking and duplex printing.
On the back, we have our power in and we have our USB port.

In this video, we will look at the QL-810W thermal label printer and accessories. This is a wireless label printer that you can connect to your computer or your phone and print out labels for your business, for your home office, for your garage sale, for your classroom, or anything else that you might need labels for. That is some shipping, brother!
So, let’s open up the box and see what’s inside. We have the laser printer itself, some continuous length starter labels, the buying guide, a power cord, and a USB cord. We also have the instruction manual and a CD with some software on it.
Let’s take a look at the printer itself. On the front, we have the label output; on the back, we have the power in and the USB port. You can connect via USB, but you can also network this wirelessly and use it with multiple devices. This one also has an optional battery pack that you can use to be completely wireless and free from the power supply, but I don’t have that here today.