Thanks Andy, if you could find the printer make that would be great.
The background to this is that a colleague has put a lot of work in to creating an Excel spreadsheet that will print on to the standard strips in the correct format. This system has a user friendly front end to allow either us (we are a FISO unit), to 'quick select' the aircraft required (we are also looking at touch screen monitors to improve this aspect), or for pilots to 'book out' in the Flight Briefing room before flight.
We have the basics working well and currently use the system on a pilot basis (excuse the pun!), for our reception staff to enter PPR details. Currently the print out goes to a standard Laserjet loaded with pre perforated A4, which we then tear off and load in to the correct coloured strip holder. The issue with this is that the printer is too big to fit on the VCR desk and so is at the back of the room and,when busy, we can't keep getting up to collect and tear off strips.
What we'd really like is for a proper thermal printer running off Windows to just churn out the strips on the desk. None of the generic thermal printers (Dymo, Epson etc), seem to support the size of strips.
It's been suggested that hospital wristbands are of the same width, so that's another option we're perusing.
Very limited budget for this project, so appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks