EEVblog 1462 - Why Dymo Label Printers SUCK!
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Don't buy the new Dymo 550 or 5XL label printers, they now use DRM NFC/RFID technology in the paper rolls to force you into using their labels at 10 TIMES the cost! BUSTED UPDATE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwggIw2HQuQ EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now NXP NFC chip: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/SL2S2602.pdf SLRC610 RFID/NFC frontend: https://au.mouser.com/datasheet/2/302/SLRC610-1127743.pdf Teardown PCB photos: https://www.eevblog.com/2022/03/09/eevblog-1462-dymo-label-drm-sucks/ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/dymo-550-thermal-printer-drm-hacking/ 00:00 - Dymo SUCKS! 01:49 - The reviews are not kind! LOL 04:37 - ANYTHING will be cheaper than Dymo 05:38 - Who is this Newall company? 06:33 - How you can fight back against DRM 07:26 - Think of the supply chain! 08:17 - Reading the RFID/NFC tag data 11:39 - Proof they are incrementing a counter in the RFID chip 12:38 - Lets print 13:29 - Teardown 14:52 - UART/BOOT investigation 16:15 - Logic analyser time 20:01 - Packet testing when removing and inserting the roll Support the EEVblog on: Locals: https://locals.com/member/EEVblog Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/eevblog Odysee: https://odysee.com/@eevblog:7 EEVblog Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com 2nd Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EEVblog2 EEVdiscover: https://www.youtube.com/eevdiscover AliExpress Affiliate: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/c2LRpe8g Buy anything through that link and Dave gets a commission at no cost to you. Donate With Bitcoin & Other Crypto Currencies! https://www.eevblog.com/crypto-currency/ T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/eevblog #ElectronicsCreators #Dymo #DRM
  • xenos@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Recently learned this the hard way, by recommending a Dymo to one of my clients. They’ve had constant issues with it. Even with official Dymo labels, it constantly has problems, fails to detect the NFC chip in the roll, claims that the roll is empty or that we’re not using authentic labels… Dymo has now sent TWO replacements and all 3 have the same issues. Insanity

    I briefly looked into some hacky fixes but there’s nothing I’d trust in prod

    We have them set up with a Zebra now and they haven’t had a single issue since