time sink 42

Thu Feb 16 21:14:11 UTC 2012

Brothers' are fine; buy the tapes that have the split-down-the-middle
backing on them.

It reduces the unpeeling problem from
more-time-than-the-label-took-to-type-in to about 2 seconds.  You just
grab the edges at an end and bend it, so the backing bulges outwards,
and off it starts to come.

-george

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real.  yesterday i was in the
> westin playing rack and stack for five hours.  an horrifyingly large
> amount of my time was spent trying to peel apart labels made on my
> portable brother label tape maker, yes peeling the backing from a little
> label so remote hands could easily confirm a server they were going to
> attack.
>
> is there a trick?  is there a (not expensive) different labeling machine
> or technique i should use?
>
> randy
>

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com