VC-500W Colour Label Printer

A colour label maker and photo printer for your home, school or business.

📄 Product Description

The Brother VC-500W is a compact, full-colour label & sticker printer that brings unmatched creative flexibility to home, office, retail or craft environments. Instead of traditional black-only labels, it uses advanced thermal “zero-ink” technology to print full-colour, glossy labels — no ink, ribbons, or toner needed. 

Whether you’re labelling product packaging, assets, jars, shelves, gift items, or creating signage, branding, or marketing labels — VC-500W delivers vivid, durable prints. It supports a wide range of label widths and works with Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices over Wi-Fi or USB, giving you freedom to design on PC, tablet or phone. 

Thanks to a built-in automatic cutter and flexible tape cassette system, users can produce everything from narrow asset tags to wide stickers up to 50 mm — ideal for packaging, retail, crafts or warehouse labelling — all without messy ink changes. 

Brochure Downloads

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  • Label Roll Technical Data

✅ Key Features & Benefits

• Full-colour printing without ink — uses ZINK® (zero-ink) thermal technology: the colour is embedded in the paper and activated by heat, so no cartridges, ribbons or toner required. 

• Wide label size support — supports cassette rolls from 9 mm up to 50 mm wide, giving flexibility from slim asset tags to wide product/shipping labels. 

• Compact, desktop-friendly form factor — small footprint makes it easy to fit on a desk, counter, or small office bench. 

• Flexible connectivity — supports USB (wired) and Wi-Fi (wireless), enabling printing from PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet. 

• Automatic cutter — built-in cutter (full or half-cut) lets you output ready-to-use labels of custom length — great for stickers, packaging, signage or asset tags. 

• High-resolution & good print quality — 313 dpi resolution yields crisp, sharp colour output suitable for text, logos, barcodes, images or graphics. 

• Easy design tools — works with the free design software: native desktop label design (P-Touch Editor) or mobile “Colour Label Editor” app — so you can import images, logos, icons or create custom sticker/label layouts. 

📊 Full Specifications

🎯 Ideal Use Cases — Who the VC-500W Is Best For

• Small business / retail & e-commerce: Creating product labels, packaging stickers, price tags, asset tags — with vibrant branding and no ink maintenance.

• Home & creative projects: Label jars, storage boxes, kitchen containers, home organisation bins, custom gifts, crafts — full-colour labels add a premium finish.

• Office / admin / asset management: Colour-coded files, equipment labels, UI signage, inventory tags — easy to customise with logos, icons or colour coding.

• Events, hospitality & promotions: Name badges, promotional stickers, signage, colour-coded labels for events, giveaways, packaging.

• Small-to-medium warehousing or fulfilment: Address labels, shipping stickers, inventory bin stickers — especially where low to medium volume printing and colour labelling helps visibility.