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?) [log in to unmask]