RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Buckland
-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: 27 August 2009 15:33 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past? On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jim Dettman wrote: > >  Along with the others, I've always use

Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jim Dettman wrote: > >  Along with the others, I've always used Zebra Printers and have never had > a problem.  Ditto on the Seagull Scientific drivers.  Those folks have been > around for quite some time now and have the driver stuff nailed. > >  As far as label ch

RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Dettman
Along with the others, I've always used Zebra Printers and have never had a problem. Ditto on the Seagull Scientific drivers. Those folks have been around for quite some time now and have the driver stuff nailed. As far as label choice, I would talk to a Zebra rep since label longevity is a

Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > Stephen, > The Zebra models are fine, we changed from Datamax to Zebra about 4 years > ago because of the differential in cost purchase cost. > > The only thing to be aware of on the Zebra's is NOT to run the label at the > full throughput (abo

RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Buckland
Sorry to be late to this, jetlag! Bloomin heck...something I can make a contribution on... One of my companies in the UK sells barcode printers and manufactures Labels (www.eurohill.com)! If you are looking for long life then thermal transfer is your friend here, thermal direct will still have pr

RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Crozier
Stephen, The Zebra models are fine, we changed from Datamax to Zebra about 4 years ago because of the differential in cost purchase cost. The only thing to be aware of on the Zebra's is NOT to run the label at the full throughput (about 9" per second) and to trim it down to about 6" per second. T

Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Madigan
expensive. --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Stephen Russell wrote: > From: Stephen Russell > Subject: Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past? > To: "ProFox Email List" > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 1:44 PM > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, > Michael Madi

Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-26 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > 13 inch label?   They make labels that wide? > > Thermal transfer can be a pain in the ass.  There is a ribbon that sandwiches > on a label.  The ribbon is melted onto the label.  The ribbon can become > wrinkled which makes the labels lo

Re: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Madigan
13 inch label? They make labels that wide? Thermal transfer can be a pain in the ass. There is a ribbon that sandwiches on a label. The ribbon is melted onto the label. The ribbon can become wrinkled which makes the labels look terrible. The only reason we used a bar code machine was to g

RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-26 Thread Gilbert M. Hale
> > Any ideas on other machines? Looking at : Just one thought from left field... I have found (the hard way) that thermal printouts are problematic in some cases. If someone leaves thermal printed labels/media (receipts from stores, for instance) in a hot car (worse with direct exposure to t