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 <sc...@albright.org> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > > > 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. > > > Scott > > > > > > Scott Thomas, MLS > > Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services > > Scranton Public Library > > Lackawanna County Library System > > 2006 N. Main Ave. > > Scranton, PA 18508 > > Ph: 570-207-2379 > > Fx: 570-348-3020 > > Email: sc...@albright.org > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto: > open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Elisabeth > Keppler > *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2015 5:11 PM > *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group < > open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> > *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Spine & Pocket label printing - > Circulation Sets > > > > 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 > -- Don Butterworth Faculty Associate / Librarian III B.L. Fisher Library Asbury Theological Seminary don.butterwo...@asburyseminary.edu (859) 858-2227