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

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Doug

The medium we use for our thermal transfer printer (spun bound polyester) is about $270 a roll of 600 feet from Alpha Systems which we have estimated (with the cost of the ribbon) runs us about 10c per 2 inch label (4 inches wide).  You could probably fit about 9 insect labels in the same space so would work out at about 1c per label.

Andy

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Andy Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
USA

Tel: (785) 864-3863
Fax: (785) 864-5335 
Email: abentley at ku.edu  
http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Doug Yanega
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 3:27 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Barcode supplier question and Barcodes for Fluid Digitization question

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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Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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