You have room for bar-code label on the cartridge. Actually from that
space only part is machibe-readable (the bar-code area) and the rest can
be used for your own purposes.
Thus a solution might be ("no warranty" and other marketing stuff): print
own bar-code labels. The specification is available on IBM's site
(http://www.storage.ibm.com/media) and write whatever your company needs
on the text area (almost half of the label) with smaller pitch characters.
If you can make the characters small enough, it is possible to fit even
two rows of text there.
This ought to be a supported way of putting proprietary information on a
LTO cartridge.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






"Foresti, Kathie" <kathie.foresti AT LMCO DOT COM>
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IBM recommends that we don't put any sort of labels on our LTO tapes
because it would rub off and cause problems with the tape drives.  What do
other people do if you need some sort of proprietary label on them, per a
company requirement?  This may not be the right forum to ask this
question, but I thought I would start here and find out what others are
doing.

> Kathie
> Kathie Foresti
> Lockheed Martin Corporation
> Enterprise Information Systems
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