Labels - Old School

Last Updated (Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:01)

What I though was going to be tough turns out to be easy.  I remember having one of the Rotex embossing label makers when I was a kid.  It was green and fit right in your hand.  The shape of it reminded me of the Starship Enterprise and I probably spent more time playing with it then making label.  That's not to say I didn't make labels.  I labeled everything I could get my hands on until the label material was all used up.  My room must have looked like the Batcave with a label on everything.

Along comes technology and all of the label makers went all  modern on us.  Now they're electronic and computer connected.  So, in my mind I imagining having to camp on ebay looking for a vintage label maker and worse yet, I'd have to find the label tapes, in red.  Well, a quick search of the intertubes and I find that they are still being made.  I stopped by my local Office Depot and there they were hanging on the rack.  I didn't get the one they had as I want to do a little more research and figure out a few things.  It appears that 3/8 inch wide is the standard but there are 1/2 inch versions available as well.  I'm leaning towards 1/2 inch as the flux capacitor labels look a little on the big side to me.  I'll keep you posted.