Electrician Experience: Brady M211 Portable Bluetooth Label Printer

March 6, 2025

We asked local Ontario electrician, Katie Downer to put the M211 Portable Bluetooth Label Printer to the test in her day-to-day activities on the job.

With 15 years of experience in the trade, Downer is primarily working in residential on service calls, renovations, and custom homes. She does a lot of renovation work, which emphasizes the need for clear and concise labels.

One of the projects she used the M211 was to relabel an entire panel on a renovation job. The panel was a bit chaotic with the breakers being labeled in handwritten permanent marker, making it difficult to read. With the M211 Bluetooth printer she was able to cover the existing marker with the printed labels, making it clear and easy to read, like a brand-new panel.

“The directory wasn’t there anymore, any piece that you could see was just tiny,” she said, “and these people had written on the side of the panel in permanent marker. I was like ‘nope, that’s going to look goofy,’ so I fixed that, and it looked awesome.”

“I went right over top of [the permanent marker], and it looked brand new.”

Admittedly, Katie said she can be a little picky when it comes to how panels are labeled. When we asked her about the importance of labeling, she said, “to be nice and clear what the thing actually is. There’s no guessing when it’s labeled. You don’t want it to look like crap, so it cleans it up a little bit having that.”

“When you’re turning something off, you need to know what that something is.”

Ultimately, she said the Express Labels mobile app was easy to use, and the labels were highly customizable. The printer is portable, you can have it with you on site all the time because it’s so compact.

“You can literally carry it on any job,” she said, “it’s handheld, there’s nothing finicky with it, it’s just convenient.”

M211

As someone who is admittedly not great with computers, Katie said Brady’s M211 mobile app was easy to figure out and overall, the M211 printer combined with the Express Labels app made for a convenient experience.

Downer was impressed by the customization options with the mobile app, anything you need on a label and more is available. The app features 11 label design guides, 85 fonts, 1,400 symbols, label saving and sharing, data entry options like the ability to import spreadsheet data, you can import data from Fluke Networks software, the camera allows you to pull data, and there is automatic sequencing.

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