This may seem like a pretty mundane question, but everyone I know that I
have asked has given me a different answer, so I'll try here.  What are your
various methods of printing catalog numbers on artifacts?  I'm coming into a
place which has used the "Let's put white out on the artifact and write on
that" method of labeling, which I don't particularly like, so I'm trying to
develop a different method.

So--

Do you use pigma pens?  India Ink and fountain pens or quills?  Acrylic ink?
How do you keep the process reversible?
Write directly on artifact? or not?
What about 25% solution of B72 in acetone?  Health hazards?  University
Products has an opaque version of this solution.  Good?  Bad?
Any other methods?  Suppliers of stuff would be helpful as well.

TIA

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Emily J. Van
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