[Build] Full-page labels for the workshop

[Torrie Fischer]

We've got a working laser printer in the space, sounds like we should look for 
a laminator now :)

On Monday, November 03, 2014 10:59:20 PM Henner Zeller wrote:
> I made a dozen or so labels, printed on letter and laminated  in 3mil
> lamination pouches.
> Laser printed, so should be fairly fade resistant; the plastic pouches
> make it resilient to water sprinkles.
> 
> The labels are a set of texts I think we might need (and probably some
> that we end up not needing); if you print more using the PostScript
> hack from above, I can laminate them - I still have a bunch of
> pouches.
> 
> --
> Glue
> --
> Sticky
> Tape
> --
> Hammer
> --
> Paint
> --
> Screw-
> driver
> --
> Drills
> Mills
> --
> Goggles
> Gloves
> --
> Measuring
> Tape, Ruler,
> Caliper
> --
> Pliers/
> Gripper
> --
> Clamps
> --
> Thread
> Cutter
> --
> Ratchet &
> Sockets
> --
> 
> Will bring them tomorrow.
> -h
> 
> On 3 November 2014 21:21, Henner Zeller <h.zeller at acm.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was thinking about the labeling-situation for boxes and shelves in
> > the workshop and how to minimize the hassle creating them. Ideally, we
> > want some laminated labels and font should be as large as possible to
> > be able to quickly see things even from afar.
> > 
> > So I wrote  a little postscript-program to create full-page labels
> > without much effort. Just given a word (or words, possibly separated
> > by newline), it maximizes the font-size to fit into that page, so no
> > manual fiddling needed.
> > 
> > Looks a bit like this:
> > 
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks/master/img/page
> > -label.png
> > 
> > Code is here:
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks/master/page-lab
> > el.ps
> > 
> > Pretty self-explanatory: Just download and at the end of the file,
> > just add new words for which to print labels, send to the printer and
> > done (You can watch how it looks by for instance using okular as a
> > viewer).
> > 
> > Say we want to print a page with 'Paint' printed on it; just append
> > the following:
> > 
> > %%Page:
> > (Paint) show-max
> > 
> > This can be good for the workshop, room-labels, warning labels,
> > project name labels etc.
> > 
> > I have a lamination machine at home, so if anyone prints some labels
> > for the workshop on letter paper, I'll take them home and laminate
> > them, so that we have nice, sturdy, permanent-ish labels that we can
> > stick to boxes and shelves.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Henner.
> 
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