Avery 5524 Weatherproof laser shipping labels, 3-1 3 x 4, 300 pack

Provides strong protection for harsh environments and weather conditions. Durable polyester with strong adhesive for a variety of surfaces.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
The environmental laboratory where I am a secretary, is quite convinced of the value of this product. We needed a way to identify the multitude of bottles of water that our field sampling teams carry back to the lab every day from lakes, streams, sewage spills, and all manner of outdoor situations. The main part of the need, was finding stickers which would remain affixed to the bottles even after the surface became wet. By the time I see any of the bottles, they have spent half a day bouncing around in a giant plastic picnic cooler filled with ice in the back of a truck and the labels are fine -- legible AND attached. The field crews have no interest in any other product now. Frankly, it has been a tricky business to continue to acquire the product; our current supplier gets excited when we attempt to order more than 15 packs at a time. But I continue to cross my fingers, before each new order, and have barely managed to keep our supply ahead of the demand. ByTheWay -- about the "laser or inkjet" question for writing on the labels... We do use a laser printer for printing on these labels. The ink of any inkjet printer would probably smear even under just the moisture of one's hands while sitting at your desk. It is quite a little chart that we print on each label. For planned sampling events we preprint some items, the location names and the date and such. Additional information, time and climate conditions etc, is added to the label by hand at the sampling site, with a permanent marker pen, filling in the blanks of the chart already printed on the labels. We have kept one of the older laser printers, in order to station it at the warehouse-office of the field crew, and they are just thrilled. (So am I. I don't have to type all those meticulous numbers for them !!) --x-- Added about a year later: The crew still loves the labels. Agency needs have required us again to justify [in so many words] the choice for these sturdy but pricey labels. The crew chose to keep the kind, but in honor of thrift has reformatted/restructured the chart we print onto the labels, in order to use the smaller sized labels of the same special kind.