Rob: The methods below undoubtedly work, if you have the time ... but with
the size of your new "inventory" you will probably want something faster.
Economy Label Sales [don't know if they have a distributor near you] makes
labels that will go through an old-fashioned dot matrix printer. They can
be pre-printed on one side [ours have our name, logo, phone # and web
address] and then the plant name printed, on your dot matrix, on the other.
Put the printer into draft mode, it goes faster and smears less; with a
light coat of clear aerosol lacquer, they last at least 7 years.

--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com


"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
...
So, Wendy got me thinking (and Al didn't help)... Does anybody use
labels (the stick on kind) on pots directly? That would save Al's
problem of customers bringing him labels. I see the benefit in having
old fashioned stick labels in pots as well, but it might be nice to mark
the pots. I don't reuse my pots anyway, and if I did, I suppose I could
just paste a new label over the old one.

I hear that there are water/chemical resistant labels out there. But I
don't know what works the best. For that matter, I see all these nice
computer printed labels on orchids, but I have no idea how they do that
(some of them last a long time). Anybody want to share some tips?

And, as a final thought, if the pots are plastic and the labels are
plastic, you could always staple one to the other... That way when your
customer pulls the label out of the pot to look at it, she ends up
getting the whole pot. There might be some training value in that, too.


Rob

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1) There is always room for one more orchid
2) There is always room for two more orchids
2a. See rule 1
3) When one has insufficient credit to purchase
more orchids, obtain more credit