<div dir="ltr"><div>Doug,</div><div><br></div><div>We use BarTender on a Mac using Parallels software to emulate a PC environment. We use a freeware app that lets us print from BarTender to PDF so I can then print the PDF from within the Mac environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew Buffington was raving about 200g HP double sided gloss brochure paper. He wrote: "We use a Brother 4000 series color laser printer, and print on HP double sided gloss brochure paper, 200g. The thickest they make. Its calendared for smoothness; its archival; the ‘toner’ is actually polymerized to the surface of the paper, making it near impossible to scrape off. We have tested it in ethanol, PG, and water; the toner does not come off like standard toner. Finally, we are able to print at 3pt font (Helvetica) with no loss in resolution. A single black cartridge (ca. 80$ USD) will print several hundred pages of labels before replacing."</div><div><br></div><div>We use the above for our 2D matrix code labels for pinned specimens. We order pre-made sticker barcodes for our vials (see earlier email in this thread).</div><div><br></div><div>-Derek<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:26 PM Doug Yanega <<a href="mailto:dyanega@ucr.edu">dyanega@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">While I can't answer Laurel's question, while we're on the topic I would <br>
appreciate hearing from folks with experience making bar code labels "in <br>
house" on regular paper and standard printer; for various reasons, we're <br>
finding thermal transfer printing to be more inefficient and costly than <br>
we would like, as well as using up a lot of space we could use for other <br>
purposes, and we're considering finding an alternative that doesn't <br>
require either a special medium (ours costs over 400 dollars a roll) or <br>
a special printer.<br>
<br>
We know about BarTender software (it's what we're using now), and it <br>
isn't Mac-compatible, and Mac-compatibility is essential (one reason the <br>
thermal printer system takes up so much space is that we have a PC that <br>
literally runs only that one program, so in addition to the printer <br>
there's a full-size computer, monitor, and keyboard we would be able to <br>
get rid of if we find a Mac-compatible option). Many of the <br>
Mac-compatible options appear to be strictly for thermal transfer <br>
printers, and we want to get rid of our printer.<br>
<br>
Again, if you have experience with any systems that would let us ditch <br>
the PC and thermal transfer printer, recommendations and caveats would <br>
be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
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