What about water proof paper? You can either print on it before hand and can do this pretty tiny too, works well if you have wet samples, and just put them in the bag or container. Else you can write with pencil which is better if you use formalin or alcohol. Sticking stuff onto wet containers simply does not work. We always put our labels into the container, this way they cannot get lost, no matter how you continue to treat the samples (I worked subtidally, in saltmarshes, on rocky shores, in wet and windy conditions...once your hands are wet and muddy, it is end of game).
Write in the rain is a good US brand of waterproof paper and it comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, check out their website. Cheers, Stef On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Donald Yee <donald....@usm.edu> wrote: > We typically use white lab tape and a black sharpie to write treatment > information on lab and field containers for experiments but for a number of > reasons this is impractical. Thus, I'm interested in any advice on label > makers that can be used to produce small legible labels that could be > affixed to plastic containers. The funds I have to allocate to this are > about to expire so the sooner the better. I want something that will be > durable and for which tape is available for the foreseeable future. > Thanks. > Don.... > > > Donald A. Yee > Associate Professor > Yee Lab of Aquatic Insect Ecology > Department of Biological Sciences > The University of Southern Mississippi > 118 College Drive # 5018 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 > -- Stefanie Broszeit
