"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

Getting back to the original question, and ignoring my store of tales about
my wife's notorious and scandalous nurserymen's family.

( children switch labels indeed! What British children, with their
unblemished record for being well-controlled? It would have been Bessarabian
dwarfs employed by the competition. )

I have found something that might be interesting. It looks too good - there
must be a snag!

A stationers pointed me to the DYMO range.
http://global.dymo.com/enUS/Labels/default.html

These are used in offices, shops, stores etc and range from hand help
upwards. The basic machines run from about Pounds 25 and the output is many
colours.

I think it is some kind of heat sensitive paper printed black,not ink, with
a plastic feel. On the back is a peel off sticky surface. I could not
imagine a muddy thumbnail less gardener managing to peel that off, but it is
cleverer than that - you bend the label and a pull off tab emerges
longditudally.

The labels might be a bit dear, but there are lots of suppliers.

Has anyone tried this system? The output looks very suitable for sticking to
wood, plastic. I can imagine sticking them to tree trunks, trays and plastic
labels.

I can't see where they advertise them as being suitable for gardeners or
where they produce specific labels, which seems odd.

Perhaps they bring out large red spots on marauding children?


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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Test British pigs for MRSA now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com