Carol, The Brady labeling system is good but we opted for something that prints directly on cassettes, slides, etc. to get around the peel and stick label system, which not only is more work, it also introduces another concern for mislabeling. They are a lot more expensive but in the busy lab and with our constant concerns for labeling errors this is the way we went, we got the Leica labeling system which interfaces with the specimen logging system so that a sample is logged once and from that all labels for cassettes, blocks, reports, everything are generated.
Patsy Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC IHCtech 12635 Montview Blvd. Ste.215 Aurora, CO 80045 720-859-4060 fax 720-859-4110 www.ihctech.net www.ihcrg.org -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Barone, Carol Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:21 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Histonet] Laboratory Labeling Systems... Importance: High Histonetters....What are your thoughts: We are getting ready to purchase a labeling system for our Core Facility. We have limited $'s and have demo'ed three systems. We have many different projects,with varying numbers of samples, blocks and slides. We would like to cover the widest amount of needs, with the system....not just cassettes and slides, but samples in freezers to antibodies we have alloquotted. We are about to purchase a two-D bar-coding system that can label everything we need and work with our present EXCEL data bases. We are leaning toward a Brady System, where we can purchase individually the parts we need for labeling cassettes to eppy's and we especially like that they... not only have a label that can be attached to frozen vials... but that there are several types of scanners available for the different stations in our lab. This system meets our CER requirements and is up-gradable for adding more stations if needed at alater time. Sounds too good to be true....so that is where you all come in. Is anyone using a Brady Labeling System? Good? Bad? Problems? What are your thoughts? Thanks for the impromptu survey. We plan to order in August, if there are no "big" issues, with those that use it. We demo's the labels and are happy with them. We are going alpha numeric/2-D...3 lines of text, is needed for our research work. Thanks for your thoughts. C. Barone Director Histotechnology Core Lab cbar...@nemours.org _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet