[NHCOLL-L:5071] Update to TLS tags

[Jessica Rosales]

A few months ago I inquired about alternate tag vendors as the quality 
of TLS' tags had deteriorated. Unfortunately no suitable alternate 
vendors were found.  However, I'm pleased to report that TLS worked with 
us to get the issues with the poor quality tags worked out, and the 
samples they sent performed well in all fluids (alcohols, formalin, 
glycerine, water). One minor thing we noticed was there seemed to be an 
excess of ink on the sample tags as the alcohols turned a light blue 
when a chunk of tags was placed in the jar. Didn't occur with formalin, 
and as the darkness and quality of the print didn't seem to be affected 
we decided it wasn't a big enough deal to reject the tags, but did let 
TLS know.

TLS re-ran the series of the bad tags we had not yet used, free of 
charge, and we placed an additional order of 20,000 tags for our herp 
and fish collections. Just for kicks I placed a similar sized chunk of 
these new tags into a jar of EtOH and these don't appear to have the 
excess of ink issue like the sample tags.

-Jess

Jessica Rosales
Ichthyology Collection Manager
Texas Natural History Collections
Texas Natural Science Center
The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin, TX 78758-4445 USA

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