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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2990332, member: 59677"] True But it actually tells you something about how labels were done in those days. This was the earliest days of Laser Printers and they were $4,000 to $5,000 monstrosities. He would have used a master file on a floppy disk to print one side of a sheet of paper. You would have taken it out and turned it over and possibly turned it 180 degrees  (depending on the printer). And then you would print the second side from a file you built with your per slab labels. The master would have been four across and maybe 20 copies of the small label down or a single sheet with about 20 copies of both of the reverse labels. A single stray keystroke and ACCUGRADE becomes ACCURADE. If somebody couldn't find the master disk it would have had to been recreated which meant carefully typing the same wording 80 or 100 times with a precise pattern of tabs and spaces and returns. It was also possible to hamd code in postscript  (the internal language of the printer), but that was very difficult. One typo and you got nothing or just an obscure error message - or worst 100s of pages of gibberish.[/QUOTE]