Jan-Erik,

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:54:31 +0200 (MEST), Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> PicDude wrote :
> 
> > I use a Casio KL-P1000 (US$10 at Fry's).
> 
> Yes, I planned to check some of the cheaper "markers".
> I do have one simple one from Dymo. But it lacks some kind
> of interface so I could run it the from (e.g) the PC.

You'll find anything with a PC interface is going to be fairly pricey - nothing less than $100, I'd say.  
Actually that's not quite true - Casio do one that's built into a mouse (yes, really!) but the quality of 
label (paper base) and printing isn't up to sticking onto ICs.  And there's only one width of tape (12mm, I 
think) so you'd have to cut it to width *and* length!
 
> > Also, since the tape is already 6mm, you 
> > just need to cut to the correct width.
> 
> Hm, that might become a bit messy when marking 50 chips. :-)

I think he means "to length", as far as the label is concerned, and you have to do this somehow.  None of the 
tape-based labellers cut the length without an unacceptable (to me) blank space at the end, to get clear of 
the print head.  If I'm printing a whole series of labels I set my Casio KL-7200E to "manual feed" and just 
put a single space between each label, and scissor them apart afterwards.  Cheaper labellers often don't have 
a way to supress the long blank at the end (economy of manufacture, or building sales of label cartridges?) so 
this may be worth checking, or you can find very high wastage  I just checked my labeller, and the space 
before the first printed character is 22mm (can't do anything about this at the start of each run) and after 
the last character is 19mm (you can turn this off but remember to put a space between each label to allow for 
cutting, and to do a "manual feed" at the end of the run).  So for a single label with 20mm text length, the 
waste is actually 205%!
 
> > On Saturday 26 March 2005 07:34 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm scribbled:
> 
> Did I ?
> I looked up "scribbled" in my english/swedish dictionary, and
> as far as I understand from the translation there, I did not. But
> I might very well be missing something here...

"The joke" ?  :-)

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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