[NHCOLL-L:3917] RE: Printed labels in Propylene Glycol & Alcohol

[Erik Åhlander]

In Sweden we are using a different kind of paper, but the problem is roughly the same. Different brands of paper gives different results. With the introduction of laser printers for labels in the late 1980s we started to cover the labels with a spray aimed for permanenting Letraset. Since a year or two, when that kind of spray became more and more difficult to obtain, we started to iron our labels with good results. (A couple of clean white papers, and the label paper on the top upsidedown; an oldfashined iron heated for cotton or even hotter and ironing it like any cloth. Catalogue number on the backside with pencil just in case of...). For very fat preparations like anguillas etc in ethanol (the fluid soon turns dark red) nothing except pencil or ink seems to do.

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Erik Ahlander, Collection Manager - Fishes
Swedish Museum of Natural History
(Naturhistoriska riksmuseet)
Section for Vertebrate Zoology
(Frescativagen 40)
P.O. Box 50007; S-104 05 STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Phone +46 8 51954118; Fax +46 8 51954212
email: erik.ahlander at nrm.se
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