But, Brother has purposely designed this to waste an inch of tape on each side of your words, forcing you to throw away at least half of your consumables

Since your typical printed label averages about 1 to 1 and a half inches in length, it means that you waste about 45% of your tapes

No one in my office knows how to use it, and it wastes one inch of tape per label.

But wasting around 2.25 inch per label, I think it is too much.

This printer was DESIGNED to waste one inch of tape with every label printed.