Just one caveat: these labels won't hold up well in any wet applications. I used them to label plastic bags for emptying bee bowls, and if they got wet during transfer, the ink on the labels ran.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Syndonia Bret-Harte <msbretha...@alaska.edu<mailto:msbretha...@alaska.edu>> wrote: Hi Donald, We also use Avery address labels, mostly for plant parts and soil samples that are headed for the drying oven. If your containers are large enough to use standard address labels, you can print them using Microsoft Excel and the "mail merge" function in Microsoft Word, as an alternative to Access. These labels work really well for our use, and since they are standard in business, they are unlikely to go away in the near future. Cheers, Syndonia On 7/22/15 8:33 AM, Mickey Jarvi wrote: Donald, Our lab uses Avery brand Easy Peel Address Labels 18160. There are 30 labels per sheet. I use Microsoft Excel to prepare my labels which usually include site name, plot number, replication number, sample type, and date. However, there is always plenty of room for more lines. I then import my Excel sheet into Microsoft Access and use the label wizard in that program to print my labels with Avery template 5160. I know this is not a label maker per se but is a fairly cheap way of creating labels that stick well to plastic and glass containers. Hope this helps. Cheers, Mickey Jarvi On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Donald Yee <donald....@usm.edu<mailto:donald....@usm.edu>> wrote: We typically use white lab tape and a black sharpie to write treatment information on lab and field containers for experiments but for a number of reasons this is impractical. Thus, I'm interested in any advice on label makers that can be used to produce small legible labels that could be affixed to plastic containers. The funds I have to allocate to this are about to expire so the sooner the better. I want something that will be durable and for which tape is available for the foreseeable future. Thanks. Don.... Donald A. Yee Associate Professor Yee Lab of Aquatic Insect Ecology Department of Biological Sciences The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive # 5018 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 -- ******************************************************* Dr. M. Syndonia Bret-Harte Associate Professor of Biology and Wildlife Associate Science Director, Toolik Field Station Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska, Fairbanks PO Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 907-474-5434 http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~syndonia_bret-harte/CV.html and http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~syndonia_bret-harte/ email address: <msbretha...@alaska.edu><mailto:msbretha...@alaska.edu>
