In a message dated 96-05-29 14:29:25 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Adrienne DeArmas)
writes:

>Thanks to everyone for the quick responses! (Museum-L is like a 1-800
>helpline)
>We were trying to avoid "text cards" but it sounds as if dry transfer labels
>are alot of work! Another suggestion I received was to print the text onto
>clear adhesive sheets and cut them out and stick them on the panel in the
>case. Apparently thet have to be printed on a flatbed laser printer. Similar
>look to silk screening but with less work than dry transfer. Anybody tried
>this method?

At my previous place of employment (American Swedish Historical Museum,
Philadelphia) we usually laser-printed onto paper which we then drymounted
with a small drymount press (purchased used) and cut with a Logan Simplex mat
cutter (beveled edge cut).  However, we did occasionally print onto clear
adhesive sheets (sorry, can't remember what they were called, but if you
really need to know e-mail me privately and I'll contact a former colleague)
with our regular laserjet printer.  Don't remember if we did this with both
the HP Laserjet Series II and the newer HP Laserjet (I think it had a 4 in
its name, sorry can't remember more clearly), or if we only did it with one,
which one it was; but anyway, it worked just fine.  The clear sheets had a
matte finish; we used them for several purposes when the off-white paper ones
wouldn't do, including to make labels for inside the restroom stall doors
asking folks not to throw whatever down the toilets!

--Cindy Palmer (I'm new to the list--GWU Museum Studies grad 1987, several
years in Phila. museums, now on self-chosen hiatus to raise my young son for
a few years--thanks for helping me keep current with the field!   Any other
GWU grads out there?)

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