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Old 09-04-2008, 06:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dave Hill Dave Hill is offline
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Default Garden Labeling advice please

On 9 Apr, 18:16, "'Mike'" wrote:
"Pat Gardiner" wrote in message

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I'd like some advice please.


I have a large garden, orchards, greenhouses and tunnels. Vegetables, soft
and top fruit, vegetables both under cover and outside.


Labelling takes a lot of effort, creates many blunt pencils and a bad
temper.


I have found a pencil that stays readable for longer "Rainbow"- but even
so, I like to label the many fruit varieties accurately and get it to stay
readable.


I have been looking at these machines that are about, they seem to make a
flexible label suitable for trees and soft fruit, but I wonder if there is
a dual purpose one that can also produce stiff plastic.


Anyway, can anyone advise me about makes, their stengths and weaknesses
and the all important labels themselves.


I don't mind getting a special printer for the garden, as my wife is happy
to explain in detail I can spend like a drunken sailor on it, but I do
have 'puter and a good HP office printer.


Would I be duplicating something I can do already? Is it just a question
of buying the right ink and sheets of labels?


I would like, if possible, to print on both sides of the label. Nowadays,
I get some help and it is useful if I can f.e. print "Prune March, pick
October."


TIA


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Regards
Pat Gardiner
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Avery Labels 7160 stuck back to back and laminated. Plant on the front. Info
on the back.

Design Pro 5 is the programme. I believe it can be downloaded now.

Simple programme I print 1000's of labels a year

Hope that helps

Mike

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I find that an ordinary HB pencil seems to last the longest and
doesn't fade, will write on most plastic labels
David Hill