There is more than one way to skin a cat. Foil printers are not the 
only solvent/stain resistant labels on the market. Surgipath (and 
perhaps others?) have a resistant label that worked fine on our dot 
matrix label printer. White labels did tend to have a pale blue shade 
to the background after staining but the writing was clear. You may 
also wish to consider doing away with labels altogether. There are a 
number of printers available that label the slide directly, making 
paper (or plastic) label unnecessary.

Bert Dotson


On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 08:32:38 +0200 John van Marsdijk <marsdijk@wxs.nl> 
wrote:

> There is a solution for all this printing problem. If you are looking for a
> xylene resistent you must have the tight combination of printing foil and
> label.
> The manufacter of the label and printer are not the most important part.
> We bought a printer from Zebra (http://www.zebra.com) 105SE with a 12 dot
> print head, the labels we use are "silver-labels".
> Now, the most important part, the foil. The we like the most is from Sony, a
> brand new xylene we are testing. After the label is wet with xylenen you cn
> touch in and nothing will happen to your barcode.
> 
> The software we use is as ease as the name: "easylabel". it comes in 3
> types. The first with less option the last has even database linking.
> 
> for comercial details see: http://www.geostick.nl
> 
> 
> J. van Marsdijk                    http://www.pathweb.nl
> Regionaal Patholoisch & Cytologisch laboratorium
> voor Eemland en Noord/West Veluwe
> 3818 ES  Amersfoort
> Netherlands
> tel +31 653442176
> 
> Tim Morken wrote:
> 
> > The Seymour labeler from DAKO will meet your needs. they are impervious
> > to everything. Well, maybe a blowtorch would take them off!
> >
> > We use the Seymour and the labels are excellent. The software is a bit
> > cumbersome as you cannot interface it with an existing database. If
> > attached to a DAKO auto-immunostainer you can print your labels from the
> > info you put in for your immuno runs.
> >
> > Tim Morken, B.A., EMT(MSA), HTL(ASCP)
> >
> > Infectious Disease Pathology
> >
> > Centers for Disease Control
> >
> > MS-G32
> >
> > 1600 Clifton Rd.
> >
> > Atlanta, GA 30333
> >
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> >
> > email: tim9@cdc.gov
> >
> >        timcdc@hotmail.com
> >
> > FAX:  (404)639-3043
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: ThisisAnn@aol.com
> > To: HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject: Labels
> > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 12:39:00 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > Does anyone know of a company that makes labels that will not
> > dissolve/disintegrate when passsed through alcohol, xylene, hematoxylin,
> > cytostain, etc. (to be used as an accession label for pap smears and
> > histology
> > specimens)?
> >
> > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
> 
> 

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Bert Dotson
amdj@duke.edu