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 $200) and we use pocket labels very rarely, so I don't think we bought any of that model. We just switch out the rolls as needed. I can't promise this would be the perfect solution for spine and pocket sets, but the more options you have, the better.
Good luck! Lise On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Josh Stompro <stomp...@exchange.larl.org> wrote: > Hello, we are currently using Demco 1491670 (1 1/4” x 1” Spine + 2 5/8” x > 1 ¼” Pocket labels, 16 to a sheet) printed on a laser printer. > > > > I’ve seen the question asked a few times about what others are using to > print the Spine+pocket labels but I haven’t seen any responses. I’m hot > having luck finding thermal printer stock for spine+pocket labels, which > may also be called circulation sets. We would be open to moving to > thermal, but I haven’t found the stock we might need yet. And I really > don’t want one of the thermal printers that costs 2-4K$ > > > > 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 > > > > Lake Agassiz Regional Library - Moorhead MN larl.org > > Josh Stompro | Office 218.233.3757 EXT-139 > > LARL IT Director | Cell 218.790.2110 > > > -- Lise Keppler, Technical Services Forsyth County Public Library 2851 Fairlawn Dr Winston Salem NC 27106 336-703-3048
