Help with fading labels

[TheChinski]

Hello everyone. Last year I dug out an old dymo label printer (A dymo Letratag XR) we had lying around and neatly redid hundreds of labels using these cartridges I purchased from amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B010XJVD8A

Much to my dismay, I'm finding that my neat perfect labels are all fading away and will be totally blank by summer at this rate! I will need to redo these labels this spring, but I do not want to make the same mistake. I'm wondering if the issue here lies with my printer or the labels I purchased? I am wondering if it is because I bought 'cheap' off-brand labels from amazon - despite there being reviews saying that other buyers have not found their labels to fade. I am happy to buy a new printer if needs be, but I do not want to spend money and end up in the same situation this time next year.

I recognise there are hundreds of these printer makes out there, so maybe nobody will be able to help me, but if anyone has any advice, I would be very grateful. And maybe if anyone has had good experiences with certain printers/labels, would you mind sharing which models, should I end up going for a new printer?

Regards,

[Jim_Mercer]

The original dymo labels do not claim to be light resistant - listing on Amazon says

Durable, tear-resistant and wipeable labels for indoor use

I have been using Brother P-touch labels for many years and have not noticed any fading - only problem has been some of the plastic labels have become brittle so the brother label has to hold them together. I have only used genuine Brother tapes and from their listing on Amazon

Tested to the extreme - Only brother genuine tapes are rigorously tested to be temperature, sunlight, water, fade and abrasion resistant

[edds]

I use knock-off brother tapes on aluminium labels and they have lasted years without fading outisde. I haven't had them long term in a greenhouse but fine for about a year so far.

[Aiko]

I use the original labels, which have lasted for 8 years now. No label has faded, and hardly any label has even been peeling off the holder in all those years. I must have made about 2000 labels by now.

[ralphrmartin]

I strongly recommend a Brother p-touch labeller, and their TZ221 tapes. Some of my labels are over well over 10 years old now, perhaps even 20. They dont fade, are resistant to all chemicals I use, and generally outlast whatever blank plastic label you stick them on.

[Stuart]

I've been using clear Avery labels printed on a laser printer, then peeled on to a 'T' label with the surplus cut off with a Stanley knife. Being carbon based, they won't fade and using the 'T' labels that quite a few BCSS branches sell, they seem to last forever. They're a bit fiddly to do, needs to be done in a sheet of 65 different labels at a time but look good on show plants.
Stuart