[Nhcoll-l] Barcode supplier question and Barcodes for Fluid Digitization question

[Doug Yanega]

While I can't answer Laurel's question, while we're on the topic I would 
appreciate hearing from folks with experience making bar code labels "in 
house" on regular paper and standard printer; for various reasons, we're 
finding thermal transfer printing to be more inefficient and costly than 
we would like, as well as using up a lot of space we could use for other 
purposes, and we're considering finding an alternative that doesn't 
require either a special medium (ours costs over 400 dollars a roll) or 
a special printer.

We know about BarTender software (it's what we're using now), and it 
isn't Mac-compatible, and Mac-compatibility is essential (one reason the 
thermal printer system takes up so much space is that we have a PC that 
literally runs only that one program, so in addition to the printer 
there's a full-size computer, monitor, and keyboard we would be able to 
get rid of if we find a Mac-compatible option). Many of the 
Mac-compatible options appear to be strictly for thermal transfer 
printers, and we want to get rid of our printer.

Again, if you have experience with any systems that would let us ditch 
the PC and thermal transfer printer, recommendations and caveats would 
be appreciated.

Thanks,

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