RE: Labeling

["Richards, Elizabeth" <elizabeth.richards@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mary,
Have you tried phoning the "help desk" for your printer company?  They
should know if you can print on Tyvek.  If the help person doesn't know the
answer ask to be connected to someone who is working on printing in Research
and Development.  Perhaps we can get a computer printing company interested
in printing archival labels.

Dr. Elizabeth Richards
Professor, Department of Human Ecology
3-39 Human Ecology Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada  
T6G 2N1
Phone:  780 - 492-2475  Fax:  780-492-4821


-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Cyr [mailto:ncyr@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:35 PM
To: texcons@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Labeling


Hi Mary, 

I asked this question of the registrar's discussion list about a year but no
one gave any replies. I would like to be able to use a laser printer with
powder toner not an ink jet printer to print accession tags. I wanted to
know if tyvek would withstand the heat of the printer, not being willing to
mess up my printer by experimenting. Has anyone successfully tried to print
tags with a laser printer?

Any way we can speed up the tag writing process, produce a completely
legible tag, and assure its archival quality would be a great improvement
over the hand written ones.

I, too, look forward to hearing from anyone else who has experimented.
Thanks, Nancy

Nancy Cyr
Museum Collections Manager
The Goldstein:A Museum of Design
University of Minnesota
240 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
612-625-2737 phone
612-624-9243 fax