Flash wrote:
Try using thermo transfer labels, they do not age outdoors. The label stock I use comes from Graphic Products.
Not true. Mine have faded out. And the glue tends to degrade over time, too. In a coastal Southeast environment, we get about 6-36 months out of them, MAX. Might work OK in some Northwest area where it's cloudy 300 days out of the year
And Graphic Products label stock is very irritating to use. There is an RFID tag buried inside the cardboard tube to force you to use their label stock instead of generic, and there is a little RFID reader inside the printer that Graphic Products stuck in there by modifying an existing off-the-shelf printer and having it produced with an orange housing instead of the standard grey.
The problem is that the RFID reader is very flaky. So sometimes it won't even recognize it's own materials and sometimes it will. So everybody I know of fights with this stupid printer because of the ridiculous RFID reader. Eventually you figure it out and carefully extract an RFID tag from the cardboard tube and then glue it to the side of the printer so that the problem is solved permanently. And on the next printer, don't buy it from Graphic Products. Do a little product research and buy the real printer (grey housing) which lets you do everything you can with the Graphic Product one and more since you are no longer limited to only the thermal transfer materials they sell.
I don't know what the brand name is but you can buy UV overlay sheets and I get them from a local printer. So you can just lay down the sticker (thermal transfer or otherwise) and then lay down the UV overlay.