Labels for your DIY bottles

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What do you guys use as labels for your DIY juice? Form what I've seen online and here as that most will default to a plain old white sticker or a piece of masking tape - including me... The sticker will note:
Name of the juice
Production date

Some will add:
Flavour profile/ingredients
Steep end date

What bothers me is that we take so much care throughout the process (ingredients, equipment, bottles, etc) and then we go and slap a handwritten sticker on it... I want to be proud of the fruits of my labour - not hide it in the top shelf at work because it looks "home made"?

I'm sure that there must be a better solution?

Case in point:

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Rude Rudi said:
What do you guys use as labels for your DIY juice? Form what I've seen online and here as that most will default to a plain old white sticker or a piece of masking tape - including me... The sticker will note:
Name of the juice
Production date

Some will add:
Flavour profile/ingredients
Steep end date

What bothers me is that we take so much care throughout the process (ingredients, equipment, bottles, etc) and then we go and slap a handwritten sticker on it... I want to be proud of the fruits of my labour - not hide it in the top shelf at work because it looks "home made"?

I'm sure that there must be a better solution?

Case in point:

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You can get a specific label printer, but it might be a bit expensive as an initial outlay (I have one at work, the labels and ribbon are relatively cheap, but I think the printer and software is around 5k). But if you have access to a normal laser printer, you can find A4 pages, which have pre-cut stickers, then all you do is setup the format on a word document and you can print away.
 
i have a brother labeling machine. portable and easy to use.

i cut a label with a name - date and barcode

the barcode is linked to a mysql database that has the recipe, notes and ingredients used all the way down to the invoice from the ingredients supplier
 
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Brother P-touch E1000

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I am in the "piece of masking tape" camp. I think most vapers are at least slightly OCD, and I am too. But my OCDness is balanced by my natural laziness. On the issue of juice bottle labeling, the laziness won handsomely. I re-use my steeping and dropper bottles. Taking off a piece of masking tape before washing and re-using the bottle is the work of one second. Taking off an adhesive label is a lot more PT.
 
@rogue zombie, my label wouldn't even have the date, and would just say "BB". I make few enough juices that I can remember what I mixed recently. So an acronym or abbreviation is usually enough for me. Atm on my desk I have "Mal Cus" (Malva Custard), "Tor" (Torrone), "IC" (Irish Coffee), "Lab" (Labyrinth), "SPM" (Spearmint) and "CC" (Cherry Cola).
 
I also use the brother labelling machine for my own stash.
I use A4 label sheets in my inkjet for the ones I mix for other people.
I got my brother from Makro as it was the best deal at the time.
 
sheesh, I think I need to get a label printer - I struggle to read my hand own writing sometimes. I generally add the name of the recipe if it doesn't have a name I make on up, and the production date.

The labels with the printer look so much neater though. I need to get one now.
 
RichJB said:
@rogue zombie, my label wouldn't even have the date, and would just say "BB". I make few enough juices that I can remember what I mixed recently. So an acronym or abbreviation is usually enough for me. Atm on my desk I have "Mal Cus" (Malva Custard), "Tor" (Torrone), "IC" (Irish Coffee), "Lab" (Labyrinth), "SPM" (Spearmint) and "CC" (Cherry Cola).
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Lol...

But the date is good to know when its cured for long enough.

If you use sellotape and paper though, when you wash in warm water, it comes straight off. I used to use adhesive labels, which is more pt to get it all off.
 
I dont know what programme people use, but I've seen folks on Reddit make full on labels, to look like commercial juices. But I would assume you would need an actual label printer to go with it.
 
kevkev said:
Oh no, I see they are out of stock :(
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mmm yep :(, I'm going to research this a bit today. I don't even know how they work, like what paper and ink they use etc. So it will be a good exercise though. Thanks - I thought they gonna be like R3k or something like that, but it is possible to get them from about R500+
 
NewOobY said:
mmm yep :(, I'm going to research this a bit today. I don't even know how they work, like what paper and ink they use etc. So it will be a good exercise though. Thanks - I thought they gonna be like R3k or something like that, but it is possible to get them from about R500+
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Yes, there are more on Takealot. They don't use ink, its thermal printing. So the cartridges you buy for it has all the magic in.
 
shaunnadan said:
i have a brother labeling machine. portable and easy to use.

i cut a label with a name - date and barcode

the barcode is linked to a mysql database that has the recipe, notes and ingredients used all the way down to the invoice from the ingredients supplier
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Now that @shaunnadan is a such a technologist way of sorting life out...WOOOW
 
Why not just go to a printing store and get them to print you out a roll of labels?
It's like R5 a page or something ridiculous and they will cut it out for you and everything. Think of the amount of labels you could get on an A4 page :eek::D
 
shaunnadan said:
i have a brother labeling machine. portable and easy to use.

i cut a label with a name - date and barcode

the barcode is linked to a mysql database that has the recipe, notes and ingredients used all the way down to the invoice from the ingredients supplier
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The nerd inside me, really likes this idea.
What are you using for a frontend ? :nerd:
 
I just use Avery #5434 1" X 1 1/2" peal and stick labels. I also down loaded a template for these specific labels from Avery. Since only I ever see them I made a simply default word doc template that includes a "spy" logo and "spy juice" as default on each label and it is set up for the different fonts/type sizes for each line to just type in whatever information I want on them (DIY juice name, date mixed, VG/PG ratio, nic mg/ml, etc). Then I simply print them on the laser printer. Can print just one label or up to a full page of 10 at a time (all different or all the same). Good enough along with my computer recipe records for exact contents and notes for my uses and they hold up to being stored in the freezer for up to years without coming off, yet easily come off to wash/sterilize the bottles for their next use. I use them on my 30ml and 60ml Luer Lock needle bottles I refill mod atty's/bottle's/tank's with, and all the glass bottles I store larger quantities in filled all the way up to the cap (4oz, 8oz, 16oz and 32oz/liter).

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