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Re: time sink 42
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:53:20 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com>
ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real. yesterday i was in the westin playing rack and stack for five hours. an horrifyingly large amount of my time was spent trying to peel apart labels made on my portable brother label tape maker, yes peeling the backing from a little label so remote hands could easily confirm a server they were going to attack. is there a trick? is there a (not expensive) different labeling machine or technique i should use?
1) You should make sure you're buying the newer crack-n-peel labels, on which the backing is scored along the center. 2) If you have the older stuff, bend a corner sharply from the plastic side (front) towards the paper side (backing). The plastic label has more spring in it, and will spring back away from the paper -- which will stay bent -- and you'll have some separation that you can peel from. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- Re: time sink 42, (continued)
- Re: time sink 42 Greg D. Moore (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Keegan Holley (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Seth Mattinen (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Måns Nilsson (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Doug Barton (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Jon Lewis (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Chris Adams (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Majdi S. Abbas (Feb 16)
- RE: time sink 42 Dixon, Justin (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 16)
- RE: time sink 42 Dixon, Justin (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Jay Ashworth (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Mark Keymer (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Karl Auer (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Jay Ashworth (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Karl Auer (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Jerry Jones (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Aled Morris (Feb 16)
- Re: time sink 42 Jay Ashworth (Feb 16)
- Which way to fold the label (was: Re: time sink 42) Jay Ashworth (Feb 17)
- Re: Which way to fold the label (was: Re: time sink 42) Karl Auer (Feb 17)