Joan,
  Can you recommend a particular printer/cartridge combination?  I was
using an old Canon printer (dot matrix) but the cartridges used a water
soluble ink...back to the drawing board for me :-(

Regards,
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm, Jr
Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
                     Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Professor - Family Medicine

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Joan Jass wrote:

> The best printer to use is daisy wheel or dot-matrix with the cartridge
> ribbon equipped with ethanol-resistant ink.
>
> Joan Jass, Milwaukee Public Museum, [log in to unmask]
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> At 09:53 AM 02/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >I have noticed that museums place printed labels inside vials of ethanol
> >with preserved specimens. But when I placed a label printed with an ink jet
> >printer into ethanol, the ink immediately started to dissolve away. Can our
> >curator friends please reveal what secret ink they are using? Maybe a laser
> >printer? Thanks.
> >
> >Aydin
> >
>