@demarl2 wrote:
I don't sell enough to justify a label printer as yet so all I ever use tape for is to tape the printed label onto the envelopes.
I use the Brother QL700, which can be bought for 50 dollars new. It will pay for itself in tape that you don't use, since the price of decent packaging tape keeps going up. It also prints smaller labels, I use continuous paper that's 2.1 inches wide, and print 7 inch long postage labels with it, which will fit all my mailers. That said, the postage printer won't save as much as your investment in a postage scale will, for sure. Nor will it save as much as buying mailers in bulk, whether you buy boxes or padded mailers or whatever. The more you can buy at once, the more you'll save. The long game is the frame of mind you have to have here. A lot of what you make on lesser expensive items is just in what you save on supplies by buying in bulk.
I save about $1.60 on all the small items I sell just in buying my postage through eBay/Paypal, and in the 55 cents I save on each mailer by buying them in bulk. That's free money, just for thinking ahead.
