Check with Brady label at www.whbrady.com.  They have a number of sleeve
marking products and software.  you can use your dot-matrix printer
(better for large quantities) or their dedicated printer.  Their
software works well. Brady used to sell ribbons for most printers, I'm
not sure if they still do.  You will have to run tests on commercial
ribbons to verify that they meet your fade, smear, solvent resistance,
etc requirements.  We use both the dedicated printer for short run PROM
labelling and a dot-matrix printer with a dedicated computer for larger
quantities. Hope this helps.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Hooper Doug [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Tuesday, June 22, 1999 5:04 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [TN] Marking Sleeves
>
>I have a requirement to apply heat shrinkable "marking sleeves" to wires
>on my assembly. I have no experience with this process. Raychem is one
>supplier of these sleeves. Are there mfg.'s of the printer/software
>specifically for this process or can I use a typical pin printer? Is it
>better to buy a system or set-up my own system/software? What about the
>ink in the pin printer ribbon? My process requires me to mark tens of
>thousands of wires with their unique identification.
>
>Thank You!
>
>Douglas A. Hooper, Sr.
>Luminescent Systems, Inc.
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