labels

[Susan Farmer]

>
>We have had varied success with laser-printed labels over the years, and
>the Resistall paper definitely does not hold toner as well as the cotton
>bond paper.   For best results, I have found that 24 -pin printers work
>well for alcohol labels, since they are most similar to old typewriter
>labels.  This also brings up the point that if you subject your pinned
>specimen labels (if produced on a laser printer) to ethyl acetate, the
>toner  will be removed from the paper.
>

Don't really know how much of a bearing that this will have on labels,
but it is about paper, printers, and permanency.  The Graduate
Thesis office will *not* let us use laser printed copy for the final
copy of any thesis or dissertation because the ink just isn't fixed
permanently enough to the paper.  It must be zeroxed onto the rag paper
before they will accept it.  The fuser engine in a laser printer just
doesn't get hot enough to do a permanent job.  So irrespective of
any problems with alcohol or other solvents, the laser label itself
may not be permanent enough.

Susan Farmer, grad student
sfarmer at goldsword.com