Portable printers are battery powered and offer on the spot label printing (indoors, outdoors, on the floor or up a ladder).

Whenever you need to print labels away from a PC. Usually the data that is printed, comes from somewhere near to where the person is printing the label (i.e. they could not use pre-printed labels).

Often the printer is used with a portable data terminal.

If you are going to rely on these printers, or any printer, you must think about what will happen on the day it stops working.

Repairs can take 3 days to a couple of weeks or more. Obviously, in an emergency you could buy a replacement - but that is not very good planning and you have still lost up to a whole day of production.

TIP: Plan ahead - buy two printers and you will enjoy complete peace of mind (plus the ability to either print 2 different sizes of labels, or the same size twice as fast, or in different work areas).