On 17/02/12 10:08, Randy Bush wrote: > ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real. yesterday i was in the > westin playing rack and stack for five hours. an horrifyingly large > amount of my time was spent trying to peel apart labels made on my > portable brother label tape maker, yes peeling the backing from a little > label so remote hands could easily confirm a server they were going to > attack. > > is there a trick? is there a (not expensive) different labeling machine > or technique i should use? > > randy > Many label makers (including Brother) use tapes that have a split up the middle of the back layer, so you can peel it off half-at-a-time and not fight with finding edges, etc.
Otherwise I suppose it's just a case of finding the knack. My label maker is of the cheaper variety and the tape i've been getting for it doesn't have the back-split, so I get to fight with it on the occasion that the knack doesn't seem to work... Mark.