Stay Green With 100% PCW Labels January 3, 2011
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Desktop Labels™ wants you to have a label option that is eco-friendly.
Our 100% post-consumer waste labels are made from recycled paper. PCW labels provide a great look with 92% brightness, equal to traditional products. Purchasing these labels allows your business to do its part for the environment without sacrificing label quality or appearance.
Whether you are looking for laser labels or inkjet printable labels, post-consumer waste labels are the best choice for your eco-friendly business. PCW labels have a permanent adhesive and they are offered in a variety of sizes to fit your label needs.
Click here to view our PCW label selection with amazingly low prices.
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File Folder Labels December 27, 2010
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Do you need to get your office organized and ready for 2011?
It’s a great time of the year to organize office files and to stock up on file folder labels with permanent or repositionable adhesive. Desktop Labels™ online store has a selection of high quality file folder labels at incredibly low prices.
Our blank file folder labels can be ordered for inkjet or laser printers. Because of differences in feed, delivery systems, etc, it is the responsibility of the user to test diecut material to ensure compatibility with their specific model of printer in its operating environment.
Click here to request a free sample of the label material.
Visit Desktop Labels™ for all your laser labels.
I Need a Color You Don’t Have July 15, 2010
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I want the 8850, 8821, 8810, or 8806 in Color
Let’s say you would like a stock size in a Polyester Label in a specific color that is not listed in the website. DeskTop Labels™ may be able to handle this request. For a mimimum order of 3000 sheets, we can go on press for this amount and do a custom flood coat of the Polyester Stock. We can mix and match many standard colors.
Weddings, Weddings, Weddings! June 22, 2010
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With the start of summer yesterday, it reminds me that summer is definitely wedding season. Weddings are a lot of fun, yet for the families involved, they can be very expensive. Many tips to make your wedding less expensive is to do a lot of it yourself. At DeskTopLabels we have a wide selection of labels to make your wedding easier.
Some different labels that will be helpful to planing your wedding.
- Silver & Gold Labels are perfect for an upscale wedding. Add to invitations, thank you notes, and center pieces.
- Wine Bottle Labels- whether you are looking for bridesmaids gift or for wine that will be served during dinner, personalize your bottle with custom wine bottle labels.
- Return Address Labels- add to your shower invites, wedding invites, thank you notes, and much more. Personalize at home so you can add more guests or change an address if someone moves.
- CD-DVD Labels- if you are sending out any dvd or cd gifts for guests, you can add your information on these.
By making the above items yourself instead of hiring out, you will be able to save a lot of money on your special day.
Bulk Return Address Labels June 8, 2010
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If you are non-profit company, you are always looking for ways to lower your expense budget so that you can use more of that money towards the programs you support. One way you can do this is to buy your return address labels in bulk.
Due to the large amount of fund raising needed to run a non-profit, you are constantly sending out donation requests and newsletters. For every one of these letters you need two labels- one for your address and one for their address. This can quickly add up. If you are buying your address labels from any old place, you could be spending hundreds more than needed. By buying your labels in bulk from DeskTop Labels you will be saving money.
At DeskTop Labels you can get 3,000 laser mailing labels for just $18.95. We have many options to choose from and know that it will help to improve your business.
Laser Labels & Laser Printers June 1, 2010
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If you are lucky enough to have a laser printer in your home or office, you will need to make sure you buy laser labels, not inkjet labels.
Below is how to tell if you have a laser or inkjet printer.
What is the difference between inkjet and laser printers?
It can be difficult to determine which labels to use in what kind of printer. Many people don’t know the difference between inkjet printers and laser printers. We cover the basics of each printer, and then compare them for you.
Inkjet Printers 101
In a nutshell, the term “inkjet” is an apt description of the process these printers go through. An inkjet printer uses ink, which it sprays onto a piece of paper (or label) in a series of tiny dots.
If low-quality paper is used in an inkjet printer, the paper may absorb too much of the ink and cause it to feather out, making images appear blurry. Smoother paper coated in a waxy film produces sharper images, because just enough ink soaks in to dry while some still remains on the surface.
The brighter the paper, the better the image an inkjet printer will produce. Bright paper is a result of smooth paper. While rough paper scatters light, smooth paper reflects the light back in the same direction, making it appear brighter.
In addition to preventing feathering, coated paper sometimes allows two layers of ink to be applied, creating a much higher resolution image.
So for best results in inkjet printing, use bright, waxy, smooth paper.
So what kinds of labels work with an inkjet printer?
- Standard labels
- 100% PCW labels
- Fluorescent labels
- Gloss labels
- Removable labels
- Specialty labels
All but three kinds of Desktop Labels™; gold and silver metallic labels, white and color polyester labels, and clear polyester labels, can be used in an inkjet printer.
These labels are made of a material that does not allow the ink to soak in, and causes the ink to smear.
Laser Printers 101
The most obvious difference between inkjet and laser printers is that while inkjets use ink, laser printers use toner to produce an image.
Toner is an electrically charged powder that is fused to paper fibers using heat during the printing process. How the toner gets to the paper, however, is a little involved.
Imagine you have a paint roller with an embossed pattern. If you rolled that roller through paint, and then rolled it on a wall, the raised pattern would be transferred onto the wall. That is essentially what happens in laser printers, but with static electricity and a “drum.”
A printer drum looks like a thick rolling pin. A laser uses electric charges to draw an image on the drum, which is then coated in toner. The toner sticks to the charges, and as paper passes through below, the image is transferred. The paper then passes through heated rollers called “fusers,” which fuse the toner to the paper fibers.
The fusing process is what makes laser printing so advantageous; the image will not smudge or blur and does not need to dry.
So what kinds of labels work in a laser printer?
- Standard Labels
- 100% PCW labels
- Fluorescent labels
- Gloss labels
- Removable labels
- Specialty labels
- Gold and silver metallic labels
- White and color polyester labels
- Clear polyester labels
All types of Desktop Labels™ can be used with laser printers.
Inkjet vs. Laser: A Quick Comparison
- Inkjets “see” the images they print as a series of tiny points, and lasers “see” these images as a geometric shape through mathematical values.
- Depending on the paper used, inkjet images have a possibility of appearing blurry due to absorption into the paper. Laser images do not have this risk, because the toner is fused with heat into the fibers of the paper.
- Inkjet printers are more economical to purchase, but the ink can be costly. Laser printers generally require a larger investment upfront, but the toner cartridges need replacing less often and have a more rapid print speed.
Wedding Thank You Labels May 20, 2010
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If you are getting married this summer, a time consuming, yet fun part of your wedding is writing thank you notes. While the actual writing of the thank you notes is fun, the addressing of them can be time consuming and hurt your hand.
In order to save your hand, save you time, and if you want to personalize, get mailing labels for your envelopes and make your life easier! You can take these mailing labels and personalize with your wedding symbol, colors, new address, and much more!
So, save yourself time and get blank mailing labels and start today!
White Permanent Adhesive Laser Label May 13, 2010
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These white permanent adhesive laser labels are very popular. The labels measure 2.625″ x 1″. While the most popular color is white, these labels are also available in blaze orange, yellow, green, orange, pink, silver, and gold. These labels are equivalent to Avery 5160.
These labels are mostly used for return address labels.Whether you are looking for these labels for yourself or for your business, having blank labels at your convenience will allow you to customize them to fit your needs.
DeskTop Labels makes these labels out of the finest material available. These labels are best for any type of product that requires a paper label with permanent adhesive such as mailing, shipping, CD, or VHS tapes.
Remember that we do offer samples if you would like to try one first.
Most Popular Labels May 6, 2010
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Curious what everyone else is ordering from DeskTop Labels or have it narrowed down to a few items but are not sure which ones you should get? See below for the 5 most popular labels.
- 3330: White Permanent Adhesive (return address labels)
- 3302: White Permanent Adhesive (shipping labels)
- 3306: White Permanent Adhesive (mailing label)
- 8801: White 3M Polyester (durable label)
- 8821: White 3M Polyester (durable label)
Look for more in the upcoming days on the individual labels.
Help! What kind of printer do I have? April 28, 2010
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I am very interested in some of your mailing labels, but am not sure sure which type of printer I have.
Below is how to tell:
It may seem like an obvious question, but knowing what kind of printer you have is important when deciding what labels to use. Without getting into the particulars of which kind of printer is best for what label, which we have outlined in this article, here are a few quick tricks to figuring out what kind of printer you may have:
- Look at the name of your printer. Most printers have their make and model advertised on a label somewhere on their surface. Many printers have the words “inkjet” or “laser” built into the name.
- If your printer name does not make it clear what kind of printer you have, use an online search engine, such as Google, to look the name up. Finding further information on your particular model will likely let you know what kind of printer it is.
- You can also remove the cartridges in your printer. Bigger print cartridges usually belong to laser printers. Smaller, less heavy cartridges are mostly from inkjet printers. The different colors of toners in laser printers have separate cartridges with separate spaces in the printer. Inkjet printers usually have a shared cartridge and a shared space in the printer.
- If no above steps help, call the printer manufacturer. They should be able to help with any questions you have about your printer.
