On 17/04/2011 10:52, Dave Hill wrote:
On Apr 16, 6:37 pm, wrote:
On 2011-04-15 23:21:18 +0100, Dave said:





On Apr 15, 10:58 pm, wrote:
In article94f7b283-74c6-4df2-abad-384bcc5b67e9
@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com, says...

We have been going on about fading labels for a long time.
How about some lateral thinking.
How about dark or blach labels and white ink?

Years ago I saw some black coated labels you marked by scratching,
and
the scratch showed white.

For permanent plantings I use aluminium labels marked with an ele
ctric
etcher. For veg garden and seed trays I use white plastic labels and a
black waterproof pen (lasts long enough for a season)

Janet

I use around 3000 labels a year, last year I planted out close to 5000
dahlias, I need something easy, cheap and reliable, hence the idea of
white on black labels

Dave, we get our labels from Longcombe Labels (I'm going to check that)
and have a label printer which works from Matthew's computer. Would
that be any good to you? It prints a row of four labels across at a
time and you can select tie-ons or stick-ins etc. If you want to know
more about it I'll get some info from Matthew. We've had this printer
quite a while so others may have come out that are even faster but it
does whiz through them terribly quickly.
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Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
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Have a label printer but every time I load the varieties onto the
computer it crashed, so I havn't used it, but so many labels are one
off that hand writing is easier, Pricked out 400 dahlia seedlings
yesterday and have about the same again to do today, and when taking
dahlia cuttings I can be taking one of a variety or 40 so with around
300 varieties it gets to complicated to have to print them off,
differeny for plants going to customers, I'll have to try again with
the printer, after all it's a lot of money doing nothing.
David

Do you use special none-water based ink? Whenever I've got any printouts
even damp the ink just spreads and becomes unreadable.

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David in Normandy.
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