Removeable Labels For Album Binders

I have my worldwide collection of Steiner pages in Vario G binders. I minimze the numbers by having more than one country in a binder when possible.

I have used removeable labels (Avery 5436) since I will redistribute over time so what is in album will change.



What I have noticed of late when I use a new label they are not sticking as well so they will curl off within 24 hrs. They do not seem to work as well as older ones so not sure Avery changed the formula or the unused labels have a shelff life issue. The older ones are fine. I tried cleaning the surface with alcohol first but that did not work,.

These labels always come off cleanly but I will note they did not come off cleanly on Vario pages. I also tried Office Depot/Max brand they definitely do not stick as well.

Does anyone use some other method to temporarily label albums? I like the Avery since they are computer printable.

Al

I use a Brother P-Touch E110 handheld and tapes for it, Lighthouse Grande albums.
(I haven't removed any labels so far).

I use Avery 06498 and haven't had problems with the labels curling off. I also find them easy to remove when the need arises.

I use various labels from OnlineLables.com. They have a very large variety of labels. Both removable and non-removable.

These look like permanent labels.

Here is a scan of the labels.

Thanks but suspect these may have the same adhesive on my labels.

I also use a P-Touch label maker. It makes excellent, readable labels which do not come off but which I can easily remove if I need to. The P-Touch labels can be purchased in normal and wide widths as you prefer. And the labeler can be adjusted to different fonts, all caps or not, and borders can be added around the name or title if you wish.

I find that also covering a printed label with a clear label (not clear tape, but pretty much the same thing) either round or rectangular, holds the other label in place for years. A round clear label may work best since it has no corners, and it's the corners that always seem to lift up and peel off first. I get them on Amazon in rolls of round clear labels which should last years at the slow rate I'm using them.

As for the way you label your binders, it might be easier if you listed each country in that binder on a separate label up and down the spine. Then, when you have to move a country to another binder, just remove its label and make a new one for the new binder.

I also find it's a lot easier and quicker to locate the binder for a country by skimming the list of country names than it is to "do the alphabet thing" to identify if the country I want to locate is between the first and last country listed. But maybe I struggled with the alphabet as a child . . . . Is "Austria" before or after "Australia"? I know this isn't difficult, but my brain hesitates -- while just seeing "Austria" in the list on the spine makes it quick and easy to find. Most binders will only have a few countries in them, so there wouldn't be many long lists on any spine.

Have fun!

My goal has been size to see from a distance.

I did another experiment a few days agp. I cleaned the binders with alcohol and spent a lot more time massaging the labels with pressure especially along edges. On 8 labels applied, only one (1) curled and the label was not applied a little off center. The curved surface is not helping.

Angore, if these Avery "removable" labels do not stick on your binders very well, why not try some different labels? The glue on these labels is intentionally designed to not be very sticky so it can be removable. Maybe Avery's formula for that is only moderately adhesive so they soon peel off?

I find even the Scott/Amos green labels they sell for the spines of Scott Specialty binders sometimes have the corners peel up. For that reason, I've stopped using them for all new binders -- and I have many of those! I also find their gold print hard to read. Instead, as I mentioned above, I use the P-Touch labels which are far better, have a better adhesive (but are still peelable), and look nicer due to font options, and so on.

When a Scott label peels up and I decide to leave it on the album, anyway, I use a few drops of white glue like Elmer's and scotch tape the label down for a few days until the glue dries, then peel the tape off. That holds it well. So that's another "fix" you might try.

For now, what I have works with the new procedure so not going to look at something like the P-touch. I do not know what has changed over the last few years (labels, binders) that made them more finicky on application.

They do not stick very well at all to vinyl used in Mystic Heirloom albums so surface is an important variable.