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

[Scott Thomas]

Hi Josh,

When we migrated from Sirsidynix Symphony earlier in the year, one of our biggest challenges was label printing because we also print spine and pocket labels. The only solution we found was to use TSC TTP-247 thermal printers. When processing materials, we scan them into Item Status and dump Item Status to a .csv and import it into Bartender. We can print from there. We do not use the native Evergreen label printing utility. It was hard to set up, but, now that we have it all documented, it works well. Please let me know if you need additional information.

Scott


Scott  Thomas, MLS
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Scranton Public Library
Lackawanna County Library System
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From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Elisabeth Keppler
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 5:11 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - Circulation Sets

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<mailto: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.

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$

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.

Is there any hope for non dot matrix printing of Spine + Pocket sets?

Thanks
Josh

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Lise Keppler, Technical Services
Forsyth County Public Library
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Winston Salem NC  27106
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