Intermec URL for insect labels
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:46:48 -0400
To: Colleen.Temple@intermec.com
From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: Intermec URL for insect labels
Cc: sackley@compuserve.com, christine.deal@intermec.com, KPerry@intermec.com,
colwell@uconnvm.uconn.edu, longinoj@elwha.evergreen.edu,
windsord@tivoli.si.edu, dl@pick.uga.edu
Colleen,
Thanks for your help. Sorry for the delay in replying. Not only am I
swamped, but I've also been on the road.
I think that <http:/www.intermec.com/discover> is a great start. Well done
and many thanks. I feel that your URL is good enough as a jump off point
that we should release it to our wider group and get their feedback. Is
this alright with you or do you want more time? Also, can I put a link on
our site to your URL immediately?
We may need to edit some of the text and add more besides Discover Life in
America, the Insect Diversity Project, and the Smokies project. After all,
Winnie Hallwachs, Dan Janzen, and INBio/ALAS in Costa Rica started using
barcodes on insect labels and deserve credit for doing so. (Don, Jack and
Rob, input please.)
I was pleased to see technical info on the Imager 1470, Printer 3240, and
media. Once we have more specific details on the media, we should add it.
Also we need more details on the wedge, etc. Here's some info and
suggestions with regards to your questions and where we stand with
solutions for barcoding insects. I started this section last week before I
saw your site, so some of it is a bit dated.
1) Have I your permission to link back to your pages immediately? I
propose adding an "<LI> Barcode Technology" and an "<LI> Intermec
Solutions" to the <UL> that is next to the barcode at the top of our page,
<www.discoverlife.org/sc/ui/index.html>, below "<LI> Overview." These will
link to appropriate text, images, and links that you develop.
2) As an outline of the Web site that I envision, I suggest that we include
information explaining:
a) general technologies & specifications for code 49, 128, &
micropdf417 (Could Sprague write this?)
b) options for reading labels: scanners versus imagers (Again,
could Sprague briefly explain the difference to the masses?)
c) various interfaces: wedge readers, serial ports, (anticipated)
USB; advantages of using wedges to mimic keyboard input (When available,
part numbers, etc.)
d) hardware possibilities: IBM & clones (with wedge and either
Windows or Lenux); Mac (through serial to USB converter...; eventually
USB),...
f) making labels: preprinted versus thermal transfer printing
g) hardware/software/label solutions recommended by Intermec for
IBM (& compatible) hardware and Mac with USB or serial-USB converter,
including: Imager 1470 (DONE), wedge, Printer 3240 (DONE), Loftware
version, label stock, etc.
3) Printing -- Christy Deal of Intermec Technologies in Decatur, Georgia,
is working with your print media folks (Karen Perry <KPerry@intermec.com> )
on how best to print insect labels. She anticipates that we will be able
to print both our existing 2-stack and 3-stack code 49 symbols on insect
labels using Intermec's printer model 3240. This model has a 2.5inch print
head that should allow us to print 4 of the labels that I'm currently using
in a row, in rolls of 8inch in diameter. With larger labels, such as used
by INBio, it may only be possible to print 3 labels in a row. Once we have
a solution, we need to get this information out with sample labels to those
who want them.
4) Linking Intermec's site to <www.discoverlife.org>
Sorry the frames on our home page were an obstactle. Seems that you have
already figured it out, however. You can get around them by linking
directly to the appropriate files and subdirectories, ignoring our homepage
and its frames. For example, link to
<www.discoverlife.org/sc/ui/index.html> -- our "Unique Identifiers &
Barcodes" primary page.
5) In general, you may wish to put technical info directly on the Web
rather that just in downloadable PDF files. While I am impressed with the
PDF files that I printed, some folks with older machines will have
difficulty dealing with PDF files. Also I personnally prefer to browse
material before I download it.
6) At first I thought that your site cleared away my Netscape's history,
such that I eventually couldn't go "Back." Only later did I realise that
you open a new window for each link. Is this necessary? Again folks with
older machines will have a problem, because they'll eventually run out of
RAM. I'd recommend not using so many <... TARGET= ..." statements.
Hope this helps. Let me know how I can do more. Again thanks and well done.
Cheers,
Pick
>Hi Pick and Sprague:
>
>I'm working on pulling some info together to build the web page on
>Intermec's side. In one of the email messages I was copied on it was
>mentioned that Sprague would be providing a 1470 and a decoder for
>evaluation. Sprague, can you provide me with the model # of the decoder so
>I can link it in from the page.... Thanks
>
>I'll let you know when I have a page ready for review. We can add
>additional information such as the Application Note, etc. as things are
>developed. I was unable to link to a number of the detail pages because the
>www.discoverlife.org site is developed in frames.
>
>I have set up the URL: www.intermec.com/discover
>Is this OK? My other choices were: www.intermec.com/insects -or-
>www.intermec.com/biodiversity
>
>One last question, was there an Intermec printer involved in printing the
>labels? If so, please provide model # on that as well.
>
>Thanks, more later...
>
>Colleen Temple
>Intermec Technologies Corporation
>Online Communications Marketing
>mailto:ctemple@intermec.com
>+1.425.356.1819
>http://www.intermec.com
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