Dr. Chris Durden at Texas Memorial Museum has been using Tyvek with dot matrix printers for years, primarily for dry labels. I do not know if he hhas used this approach w/ wet labels, but, for abrasive heavy fossil specimens, it has worked well. Hey, you TMM people, get Chris on the line! sys On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Susan Jewett wrote: > I don't know of anyone using Tyvek with dot matrix printers but it has > been used successfully for india ink hand written labels (see Van Guelpen, > et. al., Curation Newsletter, No. 9, Fall 1987, p. 3) and apparently can > not be used with laser printers (see Jewett, same newsletter, p.2). > We, at the USNM Fish Division, are happy with results using Byron Weston > Resistall paper with dot matrix printers and non-bleeding ethanol resistant > inked ribbons (see Curation Newsletter, No. 10, Spring 1990, for details. > > If you have good results with your proposed combination, please notify me > or another member of the ASIH Collections Supplies, etc. Committee so we > can include mention of it in the next Curation Newsletter. Thanks.....and > Good Luck! > > Susan L. Jewett, Div. of Fishes, NMNH, MRC 159 > Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. > FAX: (202) 357-2986 Internet: [log in to unmask] > PHONE: (202) 357-3300