I've done it - generally in an emergency though. I've found all of the IBM libraries to be very forgiving of rather amateurish looking lables. I've only ever done them on a laser printers though.
Getting them to stick (and stay) on is always the most challenging bit! Steven On 16 January 2015 at 12:01, Nick Laflamme <n...@laflamme.us> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with trying to produce labels in-house to > relabel physically LTO tapes? > > We’re going to start using different series of barcode labels as we start > working with outside customers; I want to know just by looking at a tape > whose data should be on that tape. My manager is worried that if we stock > on up tapes as we add each customer, we may end up with too many for one > customer and not enough for another, so he wants to be able to physically > relabel the tapes. > > I found one article from HP warning against using inkjets or even “office > quality” laser printers as being insufficiently precise for the job. They > also warn about alignment issues, and I can imagine issues with labels > falling off. However, before I say, “No, we shouldn’t even try; we should > work with our tape vendor if we need to relabel tapes,” I want to make sure > I’m not running contrary to actual experiences. > > So, have you tried printing your own labels for LTO tapes, and how’d that > work out? > > Thanks, > Nick