how do you label your screens?

[ericheartsu]

Always on the quest for new and better ways, i wanted to get a discussion going on how everyone labels their screens. So far this is the best way we've found, but it's far from great or permanent.

We tape up our screens, then we sharpie on shipping labels, apply it to the tape or the frame, and then packing tape over it. We tend to put one on each side. i've included a picture of our auto and manual frames

How do you guys do it?

[Doug S]

Pretty much the same here except I use a vinyl printer.  The labels last a good while.

[Homer]

I have a pretty dumb way to do it -but it works. We cut out various shapes of vinyl and stink them on the frame, both ends. Each shape represents a different mesh. A triangle means 230, rectangle is 160 and so on. When we coat for wb/dc, we apply another little neon orange sticker so we know how it's coated. It's easy to see across the room and on the racks. Numbers are probably even easier but I tend to make things more complicated than it needs to be haha.... when it comes to reclaim, we simply peel off the orange sticker, if we want to.. The vinyl holds up really well through reclaim.... not perfect but it works.

[tonypep]

Some use colored zip ties for rollers. Aluminums may be metal punched

[ZooCity]

Dymo labels. Old school embossed ones. Have to give Evo credit for the idea. I posted a pic in another thread of how we do ours. I'll try to send you a pic over ater

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[ZooCity]

The labels come in enough colors that if your screen library isn't huge in terms of how many mesh counts you use  you can have a separate color for each one. They last nearly forever and the adhesive holds very well to a roller frame.

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[rmonks]

Some use colored zip ties for rollers. Aluminums may be metal punched

Got to watch the zip ties. I found that when you put them on the roller frame and cut the tie off you have a sharp square edge and they will bust a screen that you stack next to it if your not careful.

[jvanick]

if you use Zip Ties, PLEASE use flat cut diagonal cutters, or in a pinch, nail clippers work too... using standard diagonal cutters will leave an edge that will slice you and leave scars if you brush against it wrong.

I used to work on a crew doing wiring in telephone central offices... the ones that allowed zipties (very few and far between), required you to use the flat cut cutters...  of course most of them required cat gut (wax twine) and/or velcro...

[kingscreen]

We use vinyl stickers. They last a lot of reclaim cycles. And they're cheap.

[bimmridder]

With the zip ties, I'd be worried about cutting your blanket too.

[mimosatexas]

I use industrial sharpy directly on the frame and cover in cheapo packing tape.  Lasts forever it seems like....  (statics)

[alan802]

Dymo labels but hand written with permanent markers, then cheap packaging tape over the top of that, lasts forever, easy to read in any light.  Now that I have the Dymo label printer on my desk I may start using it for marking screens.

[jvanick]

Should have mentioned, we use a sharpie 'oil based paint pen' here... scuff up the corners... paint it on, let it set, and it seems to be nearly permanent, unless you hit it with too much ink remover...

however, we use statics and not roller frames...

[ebscreen]

Zip ties, nail clipper. Luckily on Newmans pinned for MHM's the pins themselves provide you with a bit of cover for the blanket/your hands.

Everything else we've tried (label/packing tape, writing on the frame) has eventually worn off. Admittedly we haven't done the
Dymo thing yet.

[mooseman]

color coded with sign vinyl squares on roller and square bar
mooseman