In the Marine Biodiversity Section, National Museum of Wales, we use a
pigmented ink on a fluid stable paper (Resistall paper), which we use to
refill the ink cartridges in Hewlett Packard inkjet printers. Simple laser
printing or photocoping etc. on ordinary paper are not recommended.
The ink is made by Essette Dateline for HP printers and is a
"Waterproof Permanent Pigmented Ink". The kit comes with refill bottles
of ink and a long syringe. The ink is introduced into the HP cartridges
through a hole that is present in these (Epson print cardridges are not
refillable). We use the ink in either an HP 870cxi or HP660, though I
believe it can also be used in 500 series printers. The refill packs are
labelled for the series of HP printer to be used, but basically it seems the
only difference is that the ink refills are different sizes in the different
packs.
We print the labels from Filemaker Pro, which we use for laying out our
registration sheets, creating lists in various formats, as well as producing
various label type. Once the labels are printed the Resistall sheets have to
be left for a day (at least) to made sure the ink is fully dry before
exposure to alcohol. So far, after a couple of years now, the labels
printed seem fine (we did some' long term'; i.e. 1 year tests before
buying). Depending upon the label design you can get many ona sheet.
I think our most common size label can be printed at about 32 per A4
sheet.
One word of warning. We had a lot of problems obtaining supplies. It
may even be that the ink is no longer available. If you do try to find some
and are successful, I'd be interested to hear from you. Although we have
a good stock for the present, it would be good to locate a reliable
supplier.
All the best, Andy
Dr Andrew S.Y. Mackie
Head of Marine Biodiversity Section
Department of Biodiversity
and Systematic Biology (BioSyB)
National Museum of Wales
Cathays Park
Cardiff CF10 3NP
UK
Tel: int +44 (0)1222 573 311
Fax: int +44 (0)1222 239 009
E-mail: Andrew.Mackie at nmgw.ac.uk
Web: http://websrv1.nmgw.ac.uk/biosyb/index.en.shtml
Specimens: http://zoology.nmgw.ac.uk:591/Museum/Home.htm
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