[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Spine Label Printers?

[Daniluk, Judy]

They said that when they tried to use the Dymo Twin Turbo from Evergreen,  the printer would activate, then do nothing.  It works fine from Windows.  They are using the DYMO interface to print labels without assistance from Evergreen.

Judy Daniluk
Technology Consultant, North Texas Regional Library System
jdaniluk at ntrls.org     817-201-6778(cell)    


-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Don McMorris
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:56 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Spine Label Printers?

I'm just curious, what couldn't they get working? I used the Twin
Turbo at a previous job (as a library clerk).  Even though that
library wasn't an Evergreen library, I would've expected the TwinTurbo
to be just fine...

I remember I did set up 2 printers in Windows for the same physical
device - each one defaulting to a different side of the printer.  We
then set our ILS (not Evergreen) to use the printer for the side of
the printer we had the label stock... In our case, I believe we used
7/8" x 1+5/8" labels from a third-party (IE: non-Dymo)
manufacturer/supplier... So, even though our ILS did not save the
printer settings (which side of the printer we wanted to use), we set
up the print driver so it would be "hard-coded" in...

One thing I was considering doing there as well was set up half of the
Dymo to print receipts - the one station we used for cataloging was
occasionally used as a second circ station when we were busy... not
frequently enough to justify a $300 receipt printer, though.  We never
did do this, and I forget why - possibly because of restricted paper
width or sticking different sizes/types of receipt paper rolls...  But
I digress...

I'm glad to hear there's been success with the Dymo LabelWriter!

--Don

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Daniluk, Judy <jdaniluk at ntrls.org> wrote:
> Some of our libraries are happily using the Dymo 400 Turbo (with
> single-column label stock),  but one library tried a Dymo 450 TwinTurbo and
> was not able to get it to work with Evergreen.
>
>
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> One library is exporting data from Evergreen in csv format and then using
> Microsoft Word's Mail-Merge feature to print multi-column labels.
>
>
>
> Judy Daniluk
>
> Technology Consultant, North Texas Regional Library System
>
> jdaniluk at ntrls.org     817-201-6778(cell)
>
>
>
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Joe
> Atzberger
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:30 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine Label Printers?
>
>
>
> Some libraries have been surprised by the amount of noise a given printer
> generates, something not typically listed in catalog or web retail.
>  Single-label thermal printers tend to be the friendliest in that regard,
> and small and quiet enough to fit at most workstations.  Great for replacing
> damaged labels at the circ or reference station.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure about your library's situation, but if they are going to print
> in large volumes, you should also consider a laser printer.  Thermal
> printers can do high quality (i.e., reliably scannable barcodes), but the 51
> labels-per-minute of the Dymo 450 (current version of the 400) is still
> about a fifth of that of the HP LaserJet 4050 (8.5ppm @1200dpi x 30 labels
> per page = 255 labels-per-minute).  To be fair, I should also say that Dymo
> makes "turbo" and "dual" versions of their LabelWriter, but they're still
> not that fast.
>
>
>
> Regarding stock and durability, a combination of standard office-quality
> labels and super-adhesive "label protectors" like these seems to be more
> effective starting with higher quality adhesive labels on big print runs.
>  The reason is that the HQ labels tend to be thicker and jam in the printer
> more often, and still don't match the protector's grip.  The permanence of
> the label may not be as important to your libraries as it was to my former
> clients (K-12 schools and juvenile prisons), but I thought I'd mention it
> anyway.
>
>
>
> --Joe
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all-
>
> What is your library system using to print your spine labels with Evergreen?
>
> One of our libraries (going live in March) is looking for a low-cost spine
> label printer recommendation and we'd like to hear the good (and bad)
> experiences out there ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amy