[OWW-SC] USB Label Printers

[Tom Knight]

We use Brother P-touch labels, primarily black on white 3/4" wide 
(TZ-241 tape).  This has shown to be stable both during autoclaving and 
-80 freezing.

The labels I make have initials in the lower left corner and an 
automatically created date in the lower right corner.  The rest is a 
centered free-text label.  I have templates for three sizes -- one for 
large bottles, one for cryotubes and eppendorfs, and a third for slim 
tubes such as screw cap tubes.

I like to print an extra copy labels that I make to paste into the 
notebook.

Eventually, bar codes will be important.

I run it from a Mac, but the same label maker works on PCs as well.  
The model I use is the P-Touch Pro-XL, but they all work essentially 
the same.






On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Bill Flanagan wrote:

> Tom Knight mentioned label printer support as a useful OWW feature to 
> consider.
>  
> Does anyone currently use a computer-connected label printers in your 
> lab? In our lab, we have an old Brother P-Touch connected to one 
> researcher's Mac. I have an old one at home as well. If anyone is 
> using any of these devices, please let me know the following:
>
> 1. How you're using them.
> 2. What kind of label printer you have.
>    - Manufacturer
>    - Model
>    - Computer-OS 
>
> I'd also like to know is what kind of data you would like to print and 
> correlate from OWW.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill Flanagan
> Technical Developer
> OpenWetWare.org
> Endy Lab
> Department of Biology, MIT
>
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