Handy Brew Labels

[Acott]

I picked up a Dymo label printer from Amazon, €50 delivered.

Thought it would be handy for brew labels as I have a couple of bottles lying around with marks on caps and half the time i'd forgotten what the mark meant.



Not the best label but you get the idea
I'm happy with the outcome and I'd recommend it to anyone ( it beats writing 40+ labels )

It's a thermal printer so you are restricted to blacks and greys, but it's possible to do some nice stuff, and chuck the odd image in as well. The labels are cheap and come in various sizes, you can pick up a 10 rolls of 260 for approx €20 on ebay. It's good for other things as well, not just brew labels

[Covey]

Cool, but I hate cleaning labels off bottles,it's an s on the top of the cap for me

[Acott]

You can't put a price on time saved

With regards the milk, would it not go stale?

[johnrm]

Inkjet Printer, photo guillotine, milk for me.
The labels can go a bit moldy depending on where they're stored, watered down PVA might overcome this.

[winstonia]

+ marker

[beanstalk]

Inkjet printer and a4 24 label sticky sheets work ok for me.

[Garry]

That's a very good price for a Dymo printer, have you a link. I have one in the office and I paid 3 times that (ex VAT and delivery!).

They're very handy but the labels are a bitch to remove, so the Dymo has gone back to printing address labels.

Then I got these and sticked them on the cap. You could get enough info on the cap and it looked kinda cool. That was when I was bothered though! Now I just put some kind of mark on the crate.

[LordEoin]

Inkjet Printer, photo guillotine, milk for me.
The labels can go a bit moldy depending on where they're stored, watered down PVA might overcome this.

PVA is waterproof, it'd probably be a bitch to remove once it has dried.
But I have 5 liters of the stuff, so i'll give it a bash over the weekend and see if the labels slip off when soaked or not.

[Qs]

Then I got these and sticked them on the cap. You could get enough info on the cap and it looked kinda cool. That was when I was bothered though! Now I just put some kind of mark on the crate.

I was looking at getting some custom caps but it was pricey enough, that looks like a much better plan.

[Will_D]

As most old farts (me included) enter their second childhood:

Its PRITT for me!

[mcgrath]

Then I got these and sticked them on the cap.

Just wondering, how do you line up the print to hit the right spot with the printer?

[Garry]

I used AutoCad. It's overkill, but it's what I'm most familiar with.

You can get MS Word templates here.

[delzep]

AutoCAD for labels? 

[Garry]

It's quite simple. Draughtsmen use AutoCad. Accountants use Excel. Everyone else use Word.

[pob]

agra?