A label maker is a device designed to produce small, self adhesive labels for affixing to objects. Traditionally, label makers worked by impacting a length of tape with a hammer in the shape of the letter to be typed, causing a letter shaped extrusion on the opposite side of the tape. However, modern label makers are often computerised, and use ink printing to produce the labels. Protest sticker on the Manhattan Bridge in New York City A label is any kind of tag attached with adhesive to something so as to identify the object or its contents. ...

One of the most common label makers is the Dymo LabelWriter; Dymo has become something of a genericised trademark as a result. A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which is often used as the colloquial description for a particular type of product or service as a result of widespread popular or cultural...

Label makers in popular culture

Due to the manner in which label makers aid organisation and filing, the most organisated characters in popular culture, especially of the comedy genre, often use label makers excessively to humorous effect; Edd of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy fastidously labels every item in his bedroom. Labels from impact label makers are also sometimes used to give a new object a more retro appearance. For example, in Look Around You, the labels are attached to bottles of chemicals and apparatus to create the appearance of a 1970s laboratory. The first series of the show also used an impact-printed label for a logo. In the Seinfeld episode called The Label Maker, Elaine Benes gives a label maker to Dr. Tim Whatley as a Christmas gift. It turns out that Whatley regifted the label maker to Jerry Seinfeld Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Ed, Edd n Eddy is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by a. ... Ed, Edd n Eddy is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Danny Antonucci and produced by a. ... Retro is a term used to describe the culture of the past. ... Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Michael Faraday, 19th century physicist and chemist, in his lab. ... This article is about the sitcom. ... The Label Maker is an episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. ... Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. ... Dr. Tim Whatley recurrs as a character on the television program Seinfeld. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...