 Hi, I'm IMPI. Hi, and I brought you by Digikey. Don't forget who it is. Brady, my performance meet. First matter as much, Brady. That's this week's new product introduction. She liked your logo. It's kind of a cool logo, right? Yeah. What is this new, interesting product this week? OK, so this week's IMPI is a labeler. And you're probably like, yeah, OK. So I can get a labeler at my local stationery store. Why don't you talk about a labeler? And at first, I was kind of like, you know, I was like, oh, it's a yellow and rugged, you know, so what? But the more I actually started, no. I mean, I like I want to be a little self-deprecating. It's actually a really cool product. I love it. So sometimes, you know, I purchase one of the IMPIs to review it. And I kind of tend to give them away to people. I'm like, oh, hey, look, it's like a toolbox bag. Maybe, you know, are you like this tool or this screwdriver kit? This one I'm keeping. And this is a really nice product. And the prices, of course, are really good as well. So there's two versions. There's the M210 and the M210 lab. I'm going to talk about the M210. But the lab version is for people who are working in a chemistry or biology lab. And it handles vials, printing a little bit better. I think there's a couple other changes with what symbols are available or whatever. But I'm going to talk about the M210, which is good for general purpose. So I have a labeler already that I have used for labeled boxes and sometimes PCBs or samples, whatever. And it's a crafting style like home labeler. So it has like cute icons. And you can do like a couple of different fonts. This is a labeler specifically for engineers and makers and scientists and chemists and electricians and people who are working with technology. And you'll see there's a lot of specific things that it does that you will not get in other labelers, but you're basically paying for the same price. So first off, yes, it is ruggedized. It comes with, if you go back one, it comes with a really nice rubber grip outside. Everything is nicely protected. It's not going to crack in half and break if you drop it. Not that you should drop it. And OK, so I can go back one. It can take either DC power or batteries. Or there's actually a rechargeable battery pack. You can use. It's really fast to change up the cartridges. I'll do a demo. Languages, nice keypad. That's really easy and nice to use. Everything's nicely labeled. Nice and hefty. But it's a lot of the other little details that like the QR codes and modes that make this so cool. So first up, maybe you can go to me really fast and just hold it really quickly and just hold it up. Here's how big it is. So it's a little bit big. There's a little edit screen. And you type on the keypad. It does not connect to a computer. You have to use it like standalone. There's a version that's connected to a computer. Maybe I'll cover it in the future INPI. OK, so go back to the edit screen. So you have an edit screen. And you can have multiple lines, which is another thing. A lot of laborers don't let you have multiple lines. You can also do single line if you want and just pick a font that's bigger and it will stretch to be the full size. But you have multiple lines of text. You can select different sized fonts by pixels. You can do bold or not bold. There's a lot of like extra capabilities. There's lowercase, uppercase, battery life. So that's kind of like only the number of text lines is a little unusual, just not supported. What I need is it has languages. Like my hobby labeler doesn't have multiple languages or fonts. So this one, they're all, I will admit, they're all like romantic fonts in that they use. Like you're not going to get Farsi. You're not going to get Hebrew. There's a Russian version. You can get Cyrillic. But at least you can get like Swedish and French and Spanish and German and Dutch and a lot of very popular European languages. So there are multiple language support. You can select that. And in addition, there's also Greek fonts. So even though they don't have the interface in Greek, you can type in Greek, which is useful because you're going to want Pi and Mu and Omega and Sigma and Theta and all these symbols and Delta that when you're entering in mathematical or scientific symbols, you'll want to use the Greek symbol, especially electronics use Mu and Omega A time. Okay, and Sigma sometimes. All right, next up, lots of fun symbols. So, you know, my hobby, thermal hobby labeler has like a cloud and like a happy face. This one has symbols of like how you're going to die. So electrocution, radiation and ground faults, but also a lot of electrical symbols as well. So, you know, grounds and batteries and tenets, speakers, diode, et cetera. Home electrical, this is definitely, you know, if you're electrician or you do facilities maintenance typestaff or telecom maintenance, they have all the icons you'll need to quickly label stuff without having to type out washing machine. There's a symbol for washing machine or, you know, like cold water, this direction. They have the arrow ready for you. Another nice thing that you're going to get and I just thought was super cool is QR and data matrix support. I can show now or maybe at the end we'll show the overhead, I printed out a couple QR codes and yeah, they print out perfectly. Okay, just, yeah, so, yeah. So this is like a QR code I printed. So, you know, all you do is enter, you enter the QR code mode and then just type in what you want the QR code to be and it prints it and you can interleave, you know, this is like data matrix plus text plus symbols. And it's also just data fruit, but this is a true QR code and it scanned on my phone so I know it works. And here's some other symbols, you know, printed out. So like, yeah, it's exploding. Yeah, it's a very nice quality printer. Okay, so, okay, so there's codes. So, you know, data matrix, barcodes, code 39, code 128. It'll even print out the text underneath it. And you can see how there's an outline on the text. That's how you know what's going to go inside. You know, you use the arrow keys to get inside that box and you type in what you want to appear within the data matrix or QR code. Serialization, this is very neat. If you want to serialize, you know, you want to start with a number 1,000 and you end at 1,000. Oh, this is cool. 2,000, it will automatically print out. As you press print, each one will increment and you can change the increment value as well. And it does alpha numerics. Yeah, so it's like, I have been there where I was like, oh man, I have. This is good if you have a maker company and you even want to have like some type of number. Stereo numbers, or like if you're labeling, you know, like I was labeling, I did this Burning Man project and we had like what was it, 250 different LED boards and they had to be uniquely numbered. And I had to survive like wet, plyo, mud, dirt, typhoon. And I would have absolutely used this to just like quickly label each one on the back. Instead I had to like sit there with a Sharpie and like try to, I Sharpied and then I put tape over it to protect it. I could have just used this label which didn't exist at the time. Okay, serialization, very cool. I've never seen this on a label before. Time stamping and date coding. So there is a built-in RTC. You can set the date and time. And so I didn't show, there's a different screen where you set the current date and time. Once you've set it, you can then insert time stamps so that when you print out the label, it will print out with the exact time it was printed. So like at the time and different formats and they have like every ISO format for time and date. So really neat. And you can of course save, I didn't show this but there's a way to save the label. We can call it later. So if you have to like timestamp multiple things. Somebody said, does it support ISO dates? It supports every date format, believe me. Interesting, panel residential, if you do electrical work and you're constantly printing out labels for electrical panels, these are all built in. You can tell it, like you can just check off which ones you want and we'll pre- It's like made by someone who did stuff. This is absolutely made by someone who's like, I am never typing in bedroom four again. And it can pre-print length wise. You don't have to print like length, it can print like width wise. And so you see that label, it prints out each one in order with the correct spacing, specifically for breaker panels. And there's a breaker panel mode. And it like, it knows, it's like, oh, you tell me how wide each breaker is all, it'll just like do it all for you. So the thing I thought was so neat, like all that stuff was very cool, but the water management is like amazing. So first off, it can do flags automatically and it does the, you tell it the cable diameter and it will do the right distance between the text. So you can flag the text. So this is a flag, that's what it looks like. But you're like, no, I don't want the flag because like, you know, any, whatever. It's like, I don't want it to like flip around. They also have wrap around self-laminating style where you can, you print it and then you wrap it around the cable to like secure it. There's also a version that can like rotate, but I didn't want to show that because I didn't find it interesting. The most interesting, you can print on heat shrink with this device. So if you go to the overhead, this, hold on, I gotta eject this cartridge because I was actually using it. So this is heat shrink that comes on a reel and then you can print out. And like, you know, I just, oh yeah. You can, I don't know, it's like, of course it's gonna like not show in a second. No, you could tell when you bent it that that was heat shrink, but. Yeah, it's, I'm sorry. It's like I'm not able to show it very well because it's like, it's heat shrink. So when you shrink it onto the cable, you could have like these beautiful labels. It comes with a couple of different thicknesses. This is just the one that Gigi gave Doc. So, you know, like permanent wire marking that's very beautiful and easy to read each time. So I was like, okay, you have, you know, your logic and logic, like I'm absolutely doing this to my sale because like I can't tell, like, which is pin one. It's like, you have to remember the number of the colors. It's like, no, black is zero one. I'd rather just have it labeled this way. So this is just like their demo shot of it. Okay. So very cool. And you can buy these. There's at least 50 in stock. There's, yeah, there's a bunch of stock. The price is really good. There's also a kit that comes with a lot more like comes with the battery pack and the DC supply. This is just, you know, it doesn't even come with batteries. You have to include the batteries. It does come with one thing of tape. I don't know how long it is. It's three quarters inch thick, wide and it's nylon cloth. And this is fine to get started with, but you know, did you keep stocks like 4,000 different tapes? Yeah. So I was expecting it to be like 500 bucks. It's not $129. Like this is a pretty good deal. Yeah. So I'm going to say, like, I didn't see this IMPI before the show because we were like racing to get the, the show. This is really neat. This is like one of the best. So I think I've had so many crappy label printers. This is really cool. No, I'm keeping it. I was like, I was like, I'll give it to Garrett. And I'm like, you know what it is? I'll tell you, you know, we make no money on if you buy this or not, whatever. There's no commission. So the thing I like about this is like, clearly someone had a terrible life and they were surrounded by label printers. And they're like, I am going to fix this one problem because there's like, I've had label printers. I'm like, man, I wish it didn't criminal things. I wish it did. I wish I could store these things. I wish I could do this. And now I'm like, there's QR codes that I'd want to do. Like, this is really, this is really good. Yeah. I will say that. Yeah. This is what the one thing is that, you know, you do have to buy the consumables. You have to, you know, buy the cartridges. Yeah. So you work that into your cost. I think for the labor it saves you, it's well worth it. And again, it comes in everything. I do your math and everything, but like, yeah. So just from my point of view, especially since it has a full keyboard, the next time, instead of like reaching for, I have like, you know, the product beat touch or whatever that breaks and just get another one. Yeah. I think I'm going to switch to this. Yeah. And then we'll report back later. But this looks good. Yeah. Anyways, that's the NMPI. So that's pretty great.