On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:41:31PM -0700, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > On 08/13/2014 08:13 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:49:22AM -0700, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > >>On 08/13/2014 12:47 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >>>Just as a set of facts, here's what we did for DC13: > >>>* Get a small PTouch QL580N label printer with transparent label tape > > > >>Ah-ha... a dedicated label printer! > >>That is an important detail that was lost in last night's discussion. > > > >Because that is not the proposal that was on the table for DC14. It happens > >to be what was done for DC13. > > > >For DC14 we have ready access to general-purpose inkjet and laserjet > >machines; I don't see any reason we need specialized hardware for this, > >provided that we have appropriate scripts and a workable printer. > Let me clarify the thought which I was trying to express: > "That is an important detail that was lost in last night's discussion. > I now understand where the concept of 'print a label on-demand at the > front-desk' originated, and the context in which it was a reasonable > thing to do --- that being the context where there is a printer that > is designed to produce a single label at a time. It does not make as > much sense when the equipment is a general-purpose sheet-fed inkjet > or laser printer and the medium is 8.5x11 sheets with ~30 precut > labels per sheet --- because that works best for printing 30 labels > at a time since one typically cannot run those sheets through a > printer more than once. Besides, if you are going to go through the > trouble to deal with positioning the text to appear in the correct > spot on a sheet of 30 labels, you might as well skip the labels and > print the text directly onto pristine 6-up badge stock, along with > the graphics, and waste only 5/6 of the sheet instead of 29/30." > I'm pretty sure that yesterday both I (guy drawing pictures) and Tony > (guy printing pictures) thought that the "printed labels" under > discussion for DC14 referred to using the 8.5x11 sheets close-packed > with many labels on them. If the master plan involves some other > medium, please clarify. There is certainly no master plan involving any label printers; and AIUI from yesterday's discussion, the plan is to print directly onto card stock badges as required. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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