[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - Circulation Sets

[Elisabeth Keppler]

Forsyth County (NC) uses the Dymo LabelWriter 450 series.  The printers are
as little as $100 each from some vendors and the labels are available from
many sources for pretty low prices.  It is a thermal solution, but you
don't have to worry about wasting labels on sheets that aren't full and
there's no ink or toner to buy.  Dymo makes a Twin version of the printer
that lets you have two rolls working at once.  It's more expensive (up to
$200) and we use pocket labels very rarely, so I don't think we bought any
of that model.  We just switch out the rolls as needed.  I can't promise
this would be the perfect solution for spine and pocket sets, but the more
options you have, the better.

Good luck!

Lise

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>
wrote:

> Hello, we are currently using Demco 1491670 (1 1/4” x 1” Spine + 2 5/8” x
> 1 ¼” Pocket labels, 16 to a sheet) printed on a laser printer.
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> I’ve seen the question asked a few times about what others are using to
> print the Spine+pocket labels but I haven’t seen any responses.  I’m hot
> having luck finding thermal printer stock for spine+pocket labels, which
> may also be called circulation sets.  We would be open to moving to
> thermal, but I haven’t found the stock we might need yet.  And I really
> don’t want one of the thermal printers that costs 2-4K$
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> The https://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/ site
> looked promising, but the PDF library it uses doesn’t seem to support
> columns of different sizes.  The ezColumnStart function just takes the
> number of columns and the space between them.  Maybe that isn’t a huge deal
> if I treat the spine + pocket as one label and just have two columns.
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> Is there any hope for non dot matrix printing of Spine + Pocket sets?
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> Thanks
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> Josh
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> Lake Agassiz Regional Library - Moorhead MN larl.org
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> Josh Stompro     | Office 218.233.3757 EXT-139
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> LARL IT Director | Cell 218.790.2110
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Lise Keppler, Technical Services
Forsyth County Public Library
2851 Fairlawn Dr
Winston Salem NC  27106
336-703-3048
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