Diy labels

[minime]

Gunner juice sounds good

[anon4]

Gunners goo lol

[ceedee]

The Brother P-Touch P750W is particularly good value right now - a heavily-discounted price plus a generous cashback direct from Brother brings the price down to £25 + postage!

The printer produces decent-quality, water- and smudge-proof sticky labels with several ink colours on various backgrounds (including clear) which work out a little over 20p each.

[Pepperty]

Actually this thread got me thinking, I recently bagged a dymo labelwriter 400 off eBay -- with some labels -- but hadn't got around to utilising it.

I was feeling guilty over wasting £20 quid so I've had a meddle about and i'm very pleased with design, especially as I fried old laptop and am on an ancient pc (that cant even update to windows 10) and it must be the only laptop I've ever had that I haven't added photoshop on?

The only editing programme I could find is 'paint' (which I hate) but its done what I needed. I'm limited to monocrome anyway

I wouldn't mind adding in the wording for ingredients and the official blurb that goes on shop bought juices but as its only for me then just having nic strength, dob pg/vg ratio and use by and brands and percentage of concentrates used etc. in the side small print is sufficient for my DIY.

I will tinker about with template and see what can be fitted in maybe? but the supplied software is simplistic but does what it needs to do. At least its thermal so ink shouldn't run... 

[Stomper]

How did you get on with this?

[anon4]

Me? Never bothered still using handwritten labels lol

[Pepperty]

I've got it sussed now, I just set up a template and in teh editing programme I alter wording and dates to suit so can have a label on bottle within minutes

[chykensa]

I'm very impressed with this Pepperty - looks very professional and neat!

[Pepperty]

Only for personal use, but I do like my rows of perfectly matched bottles and labels I quite like the 50ml bottles I order from China, so I mix in those and label up. Most one shot mixes get a 50ml bottle and my own testers get 30 or 20ml bottles until I'm sure. I have a couple of 250ml custards brewing ready to siphon off and add in fruit and 100ml bottles of my favourite flavours on the go to decant into nibbed bottles when fully steeped.

[Postmodern Smoking]

All those bottles look great Pepperty, my only question is do you really mean 0.4mg on the label (reply#21)? Is it not 0.4% or 4mg/ml ?

[Pepperty]

Ooops, my maths ability is appalling, I'm always losing decimal points -  I need to change to one OR the other don't I? Postmodern Smoking Thanks I shall edit template

[goneforagasper]

Done on photoshop, paint and word - only took me 3 weeks

[beedee]

A few examples - I sometimes get a bit carried away with Photoshop and Avery Print...

[Pepperty]

Very smart beedee, and skilled! lovely designs there

I did consider photoshopping myself labels as what you can do with the programme is fabulous and I've lost months of my life in the past editing, manipulating, blending etc. It used to be quite a hobby of mine along with the photography side of things.Then I realised I'm working off an ancient laptop that probably wouldn't like the program load so until I replace my PC I'm stuck to basic editing.

My 'new-to-me' Dymo (good old eBay) has been quite an eyeopener in simplistic and speedily labelling so I'm impressed. I always have my PC on when mixing as I'm keying into recipe calculator and/or checking my excel document for concentrate percentages so to start dymo programme, change template and print - takes less that a minute. I now label up bottles before I mix at the table, makes things so straightforward.

[igual]

Looking good on the labels their hun. I'd be interested in how they last being thermal printed.
Really need a better system for myself as the sticky addresse labels I use tend to get destroyed fairly quick , particularly in pockets lol.