Standard code 49 insect labels
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:36:10 -0400 To: "Brian Brown" <bbrown@nhm.org> From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering) Subject: Standard code 49 insect labels Cc: sackley@compuserve.com, colwell@uconnvm.uconn.edu, christine.deal@intermec.com, longinoj@elwha.evergreen.edu, mkaspari@ou.edu, KPerry@intermec.com, cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov, jugalde@inbio.ac.cr, windsord@tivoli.si.edu, dl@pick.uga.edu Brian, It turns out that ECN passed a resolution unanimously in at their 1993 annual meeting that "code 49 uniform symbology will be used" (see <www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/barcodes.htm>). Hence, given that everyone that I know besides KU now is using code 49, I think that the rest of us should stick with code 49. I'm working with Intermec to develop a standard label that can hold 2 or 3 stacks of code 49 and a row of upto 8 letters and 9 digits. We can get preprinted 0.56x0.315inch labels with these specifications. ALAS and I both use them. Karen Perry at Intermec is trying to get their 3240 printer to produce them at this size. If not, they may have to be a little larger label or by expensive preprinted labels. If we can all standardize on one label stock, we would have the advantage of sharing the cost of a single dye, buying label stock in bulk, and possibly sharing printers. Could you live with such a label? Cheers, Pick >At 10:06 AM 7/27/99 -0400, you wrote: >>Brian, >> >>Thanks for your input. Let's hope that everyone can come to an agreement >>on unique identifiers so that we can better exchange specimens and data. >> >>More to come. >> >>Cheers, >>Pick > >Pick: I agree with you that code 49 should be the way we continue working, >as long as it remains available. A communal effort is a good idea; it would >be a way for me to cost-effectively use $1,000-2,000 (the amount of money I >usually have available at any one time) to buy labels. > >Brian >________________________________________ > >Brian V. Brown >Entomology Section >Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County >900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A. > >tel: (213) 763-3363 fax: (213) 746-2999 >email: bbrown@nhm.org >http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/lacmnh/departments/research/entomology
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