The Dymo is a heat sensitive printer and uses special labels and no ink (yea!). You can get the labels from Office Max, Dymo themselves, or Amazon.com (for the best prices). Just be warned, if you want to print postage on stamps you need to buy those directly from Dymo (Endicia) or they charge you $10 a month for the privilege. As a result, I buy my stamps from them, which earns me a "credit" to print however many stamps I just bought without the monthly fee. All my other labels I get on Amazon.