[Nhcoll-l] guidelines for printing labels

Thu Feb 2 03:29:24 EST 2017

Dear Heidi,

first thing I would explore is if there is any denaturing agent added to 
your alcohol; some additives are corroding plastics in the long run 
(especially Ketones). In this case, I would be careful with printing 
systems that use plastic fibre-sheets and laminate a thin foil that 
holds the letters on top. Even if you don't have any additives today, it 
would be worth to figure out if additives were used in the past (which 
may result in some sort of chemical cocktail inside your jars).

The second question for me would be if you are changing your paper as 
well; "printing labels" is always a combination of printer and printing 
medium. So if you are using a specific type of paper for your labels 
(and want continue to use it), any recommendation should match to the 
paper you are using.

Even though laser printers do usually use very stable pigments, you can 
see similar effects of de-lamination. This is the basic difference to 
ink printing, where the ink penetrates into the paper and thus can be 
detached that easy from the surface. If you do want to continue with 
laser printing, the paper should be sufficiently rough to give stable 
printing results (i.e. pigments are backed around rough the fibres; on 
smooth paper surfaces, they tend to peel off more easily).

If you are looking for ink printers, you should look into ink printers 
that offer document proof printing (and respective ink cartridges). 
Recommendations for ink printing (as far as I know) refer to printers 
which already turned in modern (digital) fossils and are either no 
longer available (perhaps via Ebay), or which are about to loose support 
(e.g. HP stopped the cartridge production of their famous HP 500 & 600 
monochrome series).

Because the life time of printers in general is short, I would try to 
get information from libraries on stable printing systems and critically 
check (perhaps you could get some test prints) if these would work in 
your collection. As we are about to loose support for our old HP 600 
printers, I asked colleagues if they could send me some labels I could 
test under our conditions.

During SPNHC in Berlin, Bill Moser and colleagues from the Smithsonian 
had a nice presentation on a promising printing system; you can find 
details on page 67 in the abstract volume
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.spnhc2016.berlin_downloads_2016_SPNHC-5Fbroschuere-5Fdigital.pdf&d=CwID-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ym17Wp9NabQPagGqgqc1_Ea4jt8ege2-_ZR2gZUL6rU&s=RDKM2vTQ949j2ODt74cRVNKIDvXrbuBBU3lz2Tq8RW8&e= 

Hope this helps, even though it surly is not a straight forward answer 
to your question ...
Dirk

Am 01.02.2017 um 21:48 schrieb Gartner, Heidi RBCM:EX:
>
> Hello,
>
> Can someone please direct me to a resource/guidelines for the best 
> settings for printing labels that will be immersed in alcohol (and 
> occasionally formalin)?
>
> We have been printing using a laser printer (Lexmar MS310dn) on 
> permafiber paper.  We have been using this system for years but I have 
> recently noticed that, particularly on small (vial sized) labels, that 
> abrasion is wearing/scratching off some of the ink (mainly from 
> forcept or vial mouth).  The label ink doesn’t bleed once immersed but 
> I am still concerned with the long term viability of these labels.
>
> Many thanks,
>
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