[NHCOLL-L:2959] Fwd: Re: printing labels

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

just sharing some of the responses I've gotten.

greg


>Hi Greg,
>
>I think we were probably the first ones to use thermal technology for
>archival specimen labels. I started investigating the technology BECAUSE the
>National Cancer Institute was using the technology to generate labels and
>bar codes for their tissues and molecular extract collections. There are
>resin-based thermal "papers" and ribbons purported to be resistant to every
>chemical except aqua-regia and stable in temperatures from LN to above the
>boiling point of water. I suggest you contact Alpha Systems or a thermal
>printer vendor of your choice, explain your needs and ask them to recommend
>an appropriate paper/ribbon combination.
>
>Cheryl
>
>Cheryl F. Bright
>Collection Manager, Invertebrates
>Department of Zoology
>National Museum of Natural History
>
>Mailing Address:
>Smithsonian Institution
>NHB MRC-163
>PO Box 37012
>Washington DC 20013-7012
>
>202-633-0661 (phone)
>202-357-3043 (fax)
>
>brightc at si.edu
>
> >>> Gregory Watkins-Colwell <gregory.watkins-colwell at YALE.EDU> 2/10/2006
>10:44:08 AM >>>
>Hi.  Recently there was some discussion here about laser printing
>labels for wet collections.  I'm wondering if anyone else uses the
>thermal printers like Alpha Systems.   I know they work for ethanol
>and I think also for formalin.  I don't know that I've ever seen them
>used for glycerin (cleared and stained specimens) or any of the more
>exciting solutions such as Bouin's.  Could they be used as an insert
>into a tissue tube, or would that interfere with the tissue sample in some
>way?
>
>Has anyone ever used them in solutions other than formalin or ethanol?
>
>Greg
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>*       Vertebrate Zoology
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*       Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
*       Vertebrate Zoology
*       Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
*       170 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208118
*       New Haven, CT  06520-8118
*       Phone: 203/432-3791
*       FAX: 203/432-2874
*       http://www.peabody.yale.edu
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