Name: Brother VC-500W Compact Color Label and Photo Printer
Brand: Brother
SKU: BRVC500W
Price: 209.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.8 (62 reviews)

Brother VC-500W Compact Color Label and Photo Printer

Brother VC500W

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Brother Labeling Machines

Brother VC500W 

Print vivid, full-color labels with the Brother VC-500W label printer. Wireless, compact, and easy to use. Prints up to 1.97" wide. Shop now!

For all your creative and organizational needs, the Brother VC-500W Compact Color Label and Photo Printer is a versatile solution. This compact printer, equipped with wireless networking capabilities, leverages ZINK Zero Ink Technology to produce vibrant full-color labels, photos, stickers, and more up to 17 inches long in a single pass. The VC-500W eliminates the need for ink cartridges, ribbons, or toners. The ZINK paper, which is water, tear, and smudge-resistant, carries all the colors necessary for high-quality photo printing. With an adhesive backing, it adheres to most surfaces, making it perfect for a variety of applications.Connecting to this printer is a breeze, thanks to its wireless interface. It allows you to print from virtually anywhere or share on a network. You can create and print directly from your mobile device when connected to a wireless network. The printer comes with a free Color Label Editor app, available for download from app stores, which includes thousands of personalized features such as frames, fonts, art, backgrounds, and ready-made designs. The P-touch Editor software allows you to print a wide variety of professional-looking labels from your Windows or Mac computer, making it ideal for office and organizational tasks, business projects, address labels, and more.The VC-500W also features a built-in cutter for full and half cuts, and uses convenient Brother CZ and CK ZINK paper rolls. This printer supports Apple AirPrint wireless printing technology, and is compatible with both Windows and Mac systems, allowing you to print directly from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android smartphones, and tablets.Whether you're looking to decorate, personalize, create handmade gifts, tackle organization tasks, or embark on business projects, the Brother VC-500W Compact Color Label and Photo Printer offers endless possibilities. With its easy connectivity, versatile design options, and durable adhesive-backed paper, it's the perfect tool for both home and business use.

Not to bad for someone who wants to label things around the home. The colors are way off from what they appear to be on my saved labels. Lost connection several different times.Not good for a business trying to label Aroma Therapy Oils or similar products.

Not Clean Colors

Since my purchase, this machine has been amazing! I use it for labels for my candle company, and it has helped to enhance the look of my candle jars.

CoAura amazing!

The app is pretty versatile for making labels, but would be much improved if it would allow me to arbitrarily place and rotate my text and artwork like the original App.
@Brother - please consider it!

Bring back the rotate feature!

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In any other direction. Every time I change phone, or the seasons change, or the app updates... EVERY SINGLE time it is a disaster to reconnect this device. Would not take a replacement if it was free.

Terrible wireless printer.

This printer does a good job with simple labels. If you want colors to match what you see on the computer, this is not what you're looking for. The colors we print are not close to what we were expecting. The rolls don't last too long and there is a ton of wasted paper. We wouldn't buy it again, but it will do if you just need it for simple labels.

Just ok

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY, this will not work consistently, ALWAYS some type of error when trying to print, I expected way better from Brother than this... missed the window for return or we definitely would have.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!

The software doesn't work. I've had our IT team work on this and cannot get the driver to load and print.

Doesn't Print

I want to love this printer I use it for my small at home business. I have had it since 2020 a d it is not Dec 2023  the labels are not really waterproof if soap gets on it it fades to a blue color so I have to pay for tape to try to keep it from getting wet. The size Ned's to go up to the least 4 inches not 2 inches the size is not that great at all. I wish I can make it round when I need round labes, I have to cut them out to be round. The color oh the color it prints out as a off color, when I called to complain the persons are not trained well, I was seeking help because it prints out a off color sort of faded color like  a printer that ink is low.  I waist so many labels because I can not always get the size to come out anywhere need 1 inch as of  yesterday. The 2 inch has the same issues. Loke I said the representatives do not know how to help me. The labels are so expensive  for that small amount of labels and so much waste is left over and you can not use the end of the roll this is ridiculous. I would love to give thus printer a 5 star review but I just can not 3 stars are being nice. I feel I got a bad deal. I asked for them to give me the new model and they would not I do not have the Z link I have the original. They tried to tell me it is the same this is not true I want them to at the least replace  my unit it just will not do what it is supposed to do they replaced the app but I think it needs alot of work on it. PLEASE REPLACE MY UNIT PLEASE

printer needs a overhaul   labels too expensive

Unable to install correct on Win11............................

Unable to install correct on Win11................

The original version of the App was a lot better with more features.

The cassettes are extremely expensive and I can get maybe 10 orders out before the cassette states that it is empty you guys should lower the price or add more paper to the cassettes overall the number of designs on the app is great we should be able to change the color to all the backgrounds not just some the app needs more fonts the printer should be able to connect to all computers tablets and or phones and you all should make the app more user friendly

It's alright cassettes are very expensive

This product is awful.  I spent hours trying to get it to connect to my laptop.  I finally called customer service the next day and wasted hours of my time.  They could not figure out why it did not connect to my laptop.  Awful product. I send the product back.  Please be aware DO NOT purchase this product.  Waste of Time.

Awful/Horrible product

This is an incredible little label printer if you need labels that are going to hold up this is the item for you

Label printer

When it works its great.  A little slow but the biggest issue is getting it to connect.  This should be way easier.  Cannot connect easily to new WIFI or hotspots.  Bought to print tame tags at events and we cannot get it to easily connect at different locations even though we are using the same laptop with P-Touch installed and the printer is connected to the laptop.   This machine is not user friendly at all!

Could Be Great - Missed the mark

This is a bit niche as a small format photo sticker printer up to 2 inches wide and however long, but it's fantastic for its niche.  The color is very good but not perfect. It struggles to represent lightly colored "washed out" or over exposed areas in photos but well saturated photos look great.  Colors are bright and vibrant. The adhesive is good which is a really big deal. You don't have to peel the adhesive backing if you want to magnet a photo to your fridge or something like that.  This would be great for scrapbooking if people are still doing that. Adhesive photos are durable enough to wear for a long time on a laptop that gets carried around in a bag, which is a big deal.  Photos don't run or bleed.  Inkjet can't do any of that.  The "zink" photo stock does cost more.  There's good open source software people have written to automate printing to these, that people have used to set up photo print stations at weddings and special events, and it works on Linux/Unix/BSD with that.  This is a great way to make inexpensive, durable, full-color stickers to hand out or give to friends.  Trimming the photos with scissors works well.  Web/WiFi setup works.  A 3" version and more standard printing protocols would be nice.  Buy this to nicely do what nothing else does.

specialized for vibrant color adhesive photos

I have used Brother products wit great success for over 20 years but this product has not been easy to set up or use

Brother products work flawlessly-this one hasn't

I would not recommend this printer or this company to anyone. I ordered this label printer for work to print high-end, custom labels. But they print nowhere near as vibrant as advertised. Color wasn't as big as a deal to us as we simply needed a black background with our white logo layered overtop of that. However, the white logo and border keeps printing NEON BLUE NOT WHITE. I've tried printing with different label cassettes at different sizes, cleaning with the cleaning paper, messing with the Visibility and the  Blue color scale. Nothing works. Better yet, I've been on and off the phone with the customer service since Thursday of last week, waiting over an 1 hour+ to speak with someone for them to go through all the same steps as the last person went over with me.. all for them to put me on another 1+ hold. When I hang up to "save my place in line" nobody calls back. Yesterday, I sat on hold for 1.5 hours, then went through all the same steps again with a guy for him to tell me he was going to have his supervisor  call me because HE"S NOT SURE WHATS WRONG. AND THE "SUPERVISOR" NEVER CALLED BACK!!!! INSANE! I am now writing this review as I am on another hold. To probably get transferred or put on hold again.

Oh, they also tell you to chat online with someone bc of high call volume, this person (or probably chat bot) literally just sends articles from their website rather than help. Truly a joke of a company.

ABSOLUTYLY TERRIBLE PRINTER & CUSTOMER SERVICE

Product will not work on desktop, you have to have wi-fi or something else

Not for PC use, useless

I am having such a hard time downloading this program to my computer because I don't have Apple play or Google play.

Trouble using?.

I've been using this printer for a couple of years. It works great for most projects.  I had hoped to use it for my candle and room sprays. They look great, but when the jars heat up, the labels turn blue. So disappointed.

Great labels most of the time!

We have contacted customer supported NUMEROUS Times to no avail.  Cut off or simply told nothing else could be done. It will not communicate to my computer - DELL, and there is not one thing we can do except junk it because Brother refuses to assist.

Will NOT work

I love the print although it is very slow.  The driver and software setup is very unreliable and cumbersome.  If not for the setup issues I would give 4 stars.

Printer is OK

I work in a product company with 500+ customers. I started recommending my customers this printer for visitor badges. After ordering around 100+ printers and using them daily, we concluded that this printer only works well with the Color Label App. If you want to use this as a visitor label printer, then this printer is not the correct selection. We paired this printer with our Kiosk app on iPad and visitor printer badges. Once the visitor completes the information, the app sends the printer command to print the badge using Air Print. 
Problem: after 30+ mins of inactivity, this printer goes idle and does not print the badges. Reconnection or printer restart is needed to pair again with the app. This is a huge task for lobby managers as they need to do this activity after every hour and visitors are also unhappy with the delay. Moreover, the badges are not AUTO CUT; someone needs to swipe on the head of the printer to cut the badge. At last, we tried to contact Brother customer support but got no help from their end. Finally, clients are unhappy with this printer and losing their brand value. Just because this printer is going idle and no one has a solution, we have unhappy clients. Therefore, I don?t recommend this printer for Visitor Management, but you can use the printer label for personal use.

Good Printer but with lack of important features

Let me start by saying Brother is a trusted brand, but mines stop working a week after I took it out the box. How do I exchange it?

BROTHER COMPACT COLOR PRINTER VC-500

Was working well for the first year, then wouldn?t turn on. It was in great condition as I used it maybe once a month. Even still had the protective plastic wrap still on it. Called brother and they were very unwilling to help. And one of the representatives had me on hold for over 30 minutes and then told me if I don?t hear back from them, they don?t know the answer to the question. Will not be buying a Brother product again.

Not a Happy Customer

THIS PRINTER SUCKS, DOES NOT WORK EXCEPT WITH MY IPHONE SOMETIMES.WHEN IT DOES WORK WITH MY IPHONE IT IS A PAIN IN THE BUT TO DO IT. BROTHER CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS AS WELL. I WILL MOST LIKELY NEVER BUY ANOTHER ONE OF THIER PRODUCTS, AND SPEAD THE WORD.

DOES NOT WORK

Why not state that it doesn't work in some countries. I just wasted money buying this only to be told while installing the drivers that it does not work in the region I find myself. Should have followed my instincts and bought a different brand.

Doesn't work in some countries

I found out after my purchase that the software does not support Windows 11.

Need Help

Great litter printer would have given 5 stars, but colors come off when label gets wet.

Great litter printer

Apparently the technology used for this no ink printer is not exact so you need a lot of extra time to play with your design and change it to make it print the way you want it to look. We did not have that kind of time and returned the printer.

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