Insect barcode story for Intermec
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:39:21 -0400
To: Kathie.Anderson@intermec.com
From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: Insect barcode story for Intermec
Cc: sackley@compuserve.com, christine.deal@intermec.com, KPerry@intermec.com,
ctemple@intermec.com, dl@pick.uga.edu
Kathie,
Thanks. I look forward to working with your writer. I've lots of
background info that she may wish to use. The Smokies project was featured
on NPR's "All Things Considered" last night, for example, see
<http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=07/27/1999&PrgID=2>.
Please have her call me at 706-542-1115 early next week. I plan to be in
Costa Rica and Panama from about 8-22 August, when I'll only have some
limited email access.
Cheers,
Pick
>I have found a writer who will be a good match for this story, and she's
>excited to start working on it. She returns to work from vacation next week,
>so I'll ask her to check out the web site and the corollary information,
>then get in touch with everyone and get started.
>
>This is going to be an exciting story to call to the attention of many
>magazines and publications, I believe. Thanks, Sprague, for bringing it to
>our attention; Colleen for your work on the site; and Prof. Pickering and
>everyone involved in the project.
>
>Kathie Jackson Anderson
>Corporate Communications Manager
>Intermec Technologies
>425-348-2799
>kathie.anderson@intermec.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Temple, Colleen
>Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 8:24 AM
>To: 'pick@pick.uga.edu'; Temple, Colleen
>Cc: Ackley, Sprague - Compuserve; Deal, Christine; Perry, Karen;
>Anderson, Kathie
>Subject: RE: Intermec URL for insect labels
>
>
>Thanks for the feedback Pick.
>
>Yes, you have our permission to go ahead and link to this site. We can add
>additional content as we work on this project.
>
>I am getting ready to go on vacation and will be out of the office until
>8/10 so I'll re-visit your comments below when I return.
>
>ct
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pick@pick.uga.edu [mailto:pick@pick.uga.edu]
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 4:47 PM
>To: Colleen.Temple@intermec.com
>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
>Subject: Intermec URL for insect labels
>
>
>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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John Pickering
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2602
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