The tape labels I get for our LTO tapes are laminated, with a hard 
wearing plastic finish and a decent adhesive backing. Although I have 
made my own paper barcodes, they come off much more easily (Ok, so I 
probably used the wrong glue), and the laser printed paper is much 
less robust (e.g. to finger marks).

If anyone wants the name of my supplier I'd be happy to give it to them.

At 4:48 pm -0500 6/7/06, David Rock wrote:
>* Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> [2006-07-06 16:18]:
>>  On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:51:33PM -0400, Martin, Jonathan 
>>(Contractor) wrote:
>>  > I'm about to order several hundred tapes, and I'm wondering about the
>>  > possibility of making my own Barcodes?  Does anyone make their own
>>  > barcodes?  I recently ordered some cleaning cartridge barcodes and they
>>  > came on (what looked to me like) cardstock run through a laser printer.
>>  > Almost like those "make your own business card" setups at the local
>>  > Office Depot.  Anyone out there making their own barcodes / have any
>>  > suggestions?
>>
>>  we looked at it but discovered that ordering pre-labeled tapes makes
>>  much more sense for us.  Price out the tapes including barcodes and do
>>  the math, factoring in your time to print all the barcodes and insert
>>  them in the tapes yourself.  If you've put several hundred barcodes in
>>  yourself, you'll give yourself a paper-cut or two and cuss out the
>>  person who ordered tapes without labels :-)
>>
>>          .../Ed
>
>Ditto.  Past about 20 tapes it's no longer worth it.
>
>--
>David Rock
>david at graniteweb.com


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