I've had many misfeeds resulting in two unusable tapes and (suprise!

That is a design flaw that should be corrected, the tape is too expensive to waste and you should be able to set margins for the labels that prevent wasted tape.

So, not only are you STILL wasting tape in the lead-out, but now you have to manually cut on the dotted line with

The PT-1180 not only wastes the tapes as other reviewers have mentioned, but has a tendency to jam and destroy these very expensive tapes.

BROTHER: quit making us waste so much tape and give these more memory!!

I'd give it five stars if it didn't waste tape.

A few times that it has screwed up while printing, I found it was from defective tapes (not laminating correctly, etc.).Now it will not feed all the way out after printing (about the last 5-6 characters)

I don't know if the problem is the tape or the machine itself (probably both), but I've had nothing but problems and frustration with the Brother P-Touch 1180

As has been noted at length by another reviewer on this page, these labelers are designed to waste the tape.

I thought that by ordering fresh tapes I might have better results, but no such luck

Like other reviewers, sometimes the tape jams up inside the machine, sometimes the (black) ink portion of the tape comes out of the machine (not supposed to do that)

I dislike the fact that it wastes tape, for sure, but my fancy desktop labeler is in storage