At a previous job, my employer had to print out labels on barrels of waste chemicals, incoming chemicals, scraps, etc. Working in California, we have a lot of regulations and the labels had to be printed: To be fully legible and be able to withstand exposure to daylight+rain+temperature+etc. and still be legible 6 months later. But all the current printing methods rub/wash/deteriorate quickly. We could buy a $5,000 USD solution…all-in-one-printing system.
The only other option: Sit down with a Fine-point permanate Magic-Marker and HAND-WRITE Every Single Label…which is what they were doing for the first year until I heard about this issue.
Instead, I had previously found an old Dot Matrix Accounting Printer that printed the old very-wide format. We hooked it up to an older computer with a Centrix-standard parallel port, bought the $50 USD software, found a place online that supplied printing ribbons(!)…and saved $4,900! It was in-use for years…until our plant was closed (the division was sold to another company).
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