[NHCOLL-L:5324] RE: Printech closed

[Garner, Heath]

Dear Paul,

Maybe I can help a little, being a I'm at Texas Tech and all.

For the field notebook paper, you can have it custom made by any printshop. The paper stock was usually on 'Old Council Tree Bond, white, 24#' paper. A printer local to Lubbock (where PrinTech was located and a few ex-Printech employees now work) were willing to print the field paper for us and gave me a price quote in July (2010). As with most things, quantity makes it cheaper; they do not have it sitting around like PrinTech did. Contact me off-list if you'd like to follow up with my local printer; in theory they should have the specs from my last price quote. There's also the possibility of combining orders, etc. for a better price.

As for the skull tags, I do not have a supplier for a finished product exactly like what was used. We stopped using them at TTU in 2005 and switched over to pre-printing both a barcode and prep tag for assignment in the field and lab using a thermal printer, resin ink, and a polyester tag ( http://140.247.98.87/files/september2004.pdf ) 

However, the skull tags produced at TTU (in the last 10 or so years) were cut from Byron Weston "Resistall" paper. The one caveat here is that the paper is a little acidic so not truly 100% archival. However, the cotton fibers in the paper made it resistant against tearing in wet fluids. If you wanted to make them yourself, or buy small quantities of the paper to take and have cut by a print shop local to you, you can buy sheets of the Resistall paper from University Products. 

Hopefully this helps a little.

Sincerely, Heath

 
Heath J Garner
Curator of Collections
Museum of Texas Tech University
Natural Science Research Laboratory
3301 4th Street
Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-2486, ext. 259.

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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:5322] Printech closed

Dear All

For years we purchased "skull tags" and loose leaf field catalog 
paper from Printech at Texas Tech in Lubbock. I just called and they 
are no longer in operation. Does any one have an alternative source 
for these items?

Skull tags are of archival quality card stock that can be immersed in 
fluid, they came on a card with 20 pre-punched tags per sheet. The 
tags are round about .75 inch in diameter with a small punched hole 
for stringing.
The field catalog paper is 100% cotton, printed with line and margin 
and punched with 3 holes. Size is 9.5 x 6.25

Thanks, Paul



Paul Sweet
Collection Manager
Department of Ornithology
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024

sweet at amnh.org
Tel 212 769 5780
Fax 212 769 5759
Cell 718 757 5941
Skype:pablodulce
http://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/staff/paul-sweet 



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