Re: Re:OT:Labels

Linda Goh wrote:
> 
> Despite what Avery says about not running their sheets through the printer
> more than once, I regularly do.  This way I can just do a few when I need
> them.   I haven't had any problems.  I use a HP Laserjet 6P.
> It's just the radical in me, I guess. ;)
> Linda
> 

You can run an Avery label sheet through a laser printer multiple times
without experiencing a problem in most cases. However, it can be
expected that doing so will eventually result in damage to the printer.
It is one of those situations where something will work 99 times out of
a 100 attempts, but the 100th attempt results in major damage. What
happens is the adhesives on the labels are heated and compressed as they
pass through the fuser rollers in the laser print engine. Eventually,
some adhesive will be squeezed past the margins of a label/s and adhere
to the fuser roller. With the adhesive stuck to the fuser roller, toner
will not be transferred to the paper properly from then on, spoiling all
future prints. The only way to repair the damage will be to replace the
damaged fuser rollers. That is a major expense, and the cost may require
the purchase of a new printer, instead of making a repair to the damaged
printer.

We work around the problem by printing a whole sheet at one time.
Because it is impractical to gather, print, and label all the plant
stakes and plants at one time, we use a dfferent approach.

When we purchase and receive a new plant or propagate a new plant or
planting, we put the original plant tag on a page in a three-ring
binder. An Exacto knife is used to cut two slits on the page, and the
slits hold the plant tag on the page. The page is given a sequential
accession number. A sheet of Avery laser labels have been pre-printed
with these accession numbers, so our plant tag with the accession number
is swapped with the original tag we have stored in the binder. Later, we
accumulate the plant names until there are enough to print a full sheet
of Avery labels. We then print new Avery labels with the plant names,
and we place them on the plant tag/stake on the opposite side from the
accession number. Sometimes we can do this before the plants are
planted. More often, the name labels are applied to the plant
tages/stakes after they have already been put into the garden. A little
cleaning with water or soap and water is sometimes necessary, but it
seems to work. Our labels handwritten with garden markers have all
faded, but all of our Avery labels are still intact and legible after
many years. We assumed it would be necessary to make new labels when the
plants were divided, but it has not yet been necessary to do so.

Dallas Patterson
nye@fidalgo.net

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