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

[Donald Butterworth]

The folks at Asbury University have had success with a Zebra TLP 2844. It
uses Thermal Transfer ribbon and prints spine+pocket labels on a role. Cost
is between $300 and $400.

At Asbury Seminary we have been using an old Cub thermal transfer printer.
We use it to print spine+pocket, and barcode labels. When it dies we will
likely go with a Zebra like the University.

We are sold on printers that use thermal transfer ribbons. The print is
very clear and fade resistant.

Don


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Scott Thomas <scott at albright.org> wrote:

> Hi Josh,
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> 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.
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> Scott
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> Scott  Thomas, MLS
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> Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services
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> Scranton Public Library
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> Lackawanna County Library System
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> 2006 N. Main Ave.
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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
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> 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
> $200) and we use pocket labels very rarely, so I don't think we bought any
> of that model.  We just switch out the rolls as needed.  I can't promise
> this would be the perfect solution for spine and pocket sets, but the more
> options you have, the better.
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> Good luck!
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> Lise
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> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>
> wrote:
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> Hello, we are currently using Demco 1491670 (1 1/4” x 1” Spine + 2 5/8” x
> 1 ¼” Pocket labels, 16 to a sheet) printed on a laser printer.
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> I’ve seen the question asked a few times about what others are using to
> print the Spine+pocket labels but I haven’t seen any responses.  I’m hot
> having luck finding thermal printer stock for spine+pocket labels, which
> may also be called circulation sets.  We would be open to moving to
> thermal, but I haven’t found the stock we might need yet.  And I really
> don’t want one of the thermal printers that costs 2-4K$
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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
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> Forsyth County Public Library
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> 2851 Fairlawn Dr
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> Winston Salem NC  27106
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> 336-703-3048
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-- 
Don Butterworth
Faculty Associate / Librarian III
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu
(859) 858-2227
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