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SU ink pkg. question
This may have been asked and answered already......sorry if it has! But why did SU take the color and name off of the end of the ink pkg. It's very frustrating to just have white on the end.
I do write the name, but it's not as nice.
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This is where my label maker comes in handy! I can't easily read the new colored labels that you stick on so I add the color name with white label tape and also label anything "retired".
I wonder why they changed them? Maybe to save $$$$$$. I don't mind adding the sticker, and I'm so happy to know this.
I'm guessing it was easier/smarter to make a sticker sheet with the various language than to pre-sticker a bunch of them and have too many German and not enough English.
There should be a label on the bottom that you can peel off and place on the end.
Is THAT what that is? Thank you so much! I wish they had put some sort of sticker on the shrink wrap to let consumers know about the labels. I guess it was explained in the catalog, but I don't read it from cover to cover. I just look at the pretty stuff.
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Originally Posted by Brenda71
And the old pads didn't have the color name, just a band of color with the word Classic in it.
Right, just a band of color. It was better than plain white, which is what I thought they had gone to. I only have three pads of the new style. One bought very recently. I so totally missed this.
My SU demo never mentioned it. Maybe she did sometime that I missed class.
Still Happy that now I know what's going on!
THANKS!
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I actually used the color strip from the bottom of the ink pad and attached it to the end as instructed, then realized the lighter colors are not easy to read, so....
I print white address labels in 12 pt. Arial Bold (black ink), punch it out with the word window punch and attached it to the lower edge of the end. I can actually get 2 ink pad labels from one regular address label.
I did this when I first got my original ink pads in 2007, and it is so much easier for me to read.
I realized after I did this that the original ink pads say "Classic" on the top half of the end, oh well!
I always mount the English sticker on the front of my ink pad case, and then use one of the other language stickers (usually the one that looks most like the English name) to stick on the opposite side just as an extra verification that I've grabbed the right pad.
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Originally Posted by Makalah
I always mount the English sticker on the front of my ink pad case, and then use one of the other language stickers (usually the one that looks most like the English name) to stick on the opposite side just as an extra verification that I've grabbed the right pad.
Great idea!
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There should be 4 stickers on the back of the SU ink pad. I put the English one on the front of the pad, the side you see. Then I take one of the other languages and put it on the other side, then one inside when you flip it open and then I cut one and put it on the very small part on the inside where you put your fingers to pull it open.
Why? I find this helps when you are water coloring or have several pads out at the same time so you can tell which color you want to use. Helps reduce "mixing colors".
Hope this helps. Why waist the stickers on the back. Use em'!
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SU ink pkg. question
