Peeling and Smudging
By Chocollette on - Updated Oct 15, 2011In this world of inflated prices on items, instead of going through a mail order company to buy customized address labels, I decided to save a few pennies by purchasing address labels at Office Max.
I decided to take a little trip on the wild sideand purchase (shhhh!) CLEAR mailing labels instead of plain white labels and decided that the wild side is not where I want to be!One of the reasons why I purchased this particular style of labels is because the package said the labels are "now easier to use!" with an "Avery Easy Peel feature".I have a package that has 300 labels divided in rows of three across/ten down and each row of ten down is now perforated so the label is easier to peel.I had absolutely no problem with that and hope that all companies will do that with their labels.
The price point is fantastic because if I had ordered 300 pre printed address labels, they would have cost well over $25.00.
Now to my unfortunate con which I found out the hard way.When I had purchased regular white labels awhile back, as soon as I printed them, the dry time was only a few minutes but with the clear labels, the dry time was half a DAY!I left the labels on top of the printer overnightand the next morning, my son grabbed the labels and a rainbow of colors was smudged on his hands!About half of the labels was ruined so I ended up printing another batch of labels and walked on the wild side again by attaching a picture of the beach on it.To my dismay, letters were smudged and you could not decipher that the picture was supposed to be the beach (which is where I wanted to be after ruining many labels).
The concept of the clear labels is wonderful and I am sure it works for a lot of people but for myself, it was more hassle than what it was worth so I will humbly go back to my plain white labels.
Update On Apr 23, 2008: I am happy to tell you that after changing both the black & color cartridges of ink, I printed off a page of labels and there was NO smudging!!I'm glad that it was something as simple as that & within 30 minutes, my labels were dry!!!
that is a long drying time. I use these same labels and there is a drying time but not that long. Maybe it was the printer?
Ithink printing your own labels is a great cost saver, but A full day of wait before they dry is to much! I mean how can anyone possibly keep their kids or their animals off the labels???? I know I couldn't
Thanks for sharing the detailed information. That is awful. I will avoid these for sure.
Wow a half a day for the ink to dry! Sounds like a hassle! Thanks for the great information on your experience with these labels.
What a way to kill your enthusiasm huh? That's too bad about the dry time. Who has extra time to wait for ink to dry. After you spent your precious gift card too! I think I would have taken them back and asked to have them replaced with a product that actually dried. I would write to the company of the labels. Explain what happened. Tell them how disappointed you are with this product. I did that one time with an eye lash curler. They sent me out a refund check and a coupon for any free product in their line of cosmetics. Hey, can't blame a girl for trying right?!
WOW i have never heard of that happening. i have printed just plain black on clear labels. I would def complain to Avery! GL and keep us posted!
Well, I'm glad it all worked out in the end :0)
At first I was thinking that your bargain ended up being not such a bargain... but then you twisted it around on me with that great update that a change of ink did the trick! How cool is that?