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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:30:06 -0400, "Bob Becker" >
wrote:

>I've been doing this wine thing for about five months now, and it's been a
>lot of fun.
>I thought I'd share some of my experiences with labels for my wine.
>
>After about six iterations of label designs I hit upon the idea of using
>labels
>featuring Maine animals. I designed a general format to use for all the
>labels
>so now I have an "identity" for all my wines.
>So far I have designed labels for the following:
>Black Bear Cabernet
>Lonely Loon Pinot Grigio
>Plump Puffin Port
>Laughing Lobster Gewurztraminer
>and my favorite...
>Morose Moose Merlot
>
>I designed the labels using MS Publisher and discovered that four labels
>on an 8.5x11 page work perfectly. Each of the four fits very well on a
>750ml bottle.
>I also discovered that ink jet ink runs when a bottle sweats after removing
>it from
>a refrigerator. So now I put the labels on my flash memory, take it down to
>Staples,
>and have them print it on their color laserjet. It works out to about 10
>cents/label
>and it the labels don't run when the bottle sweats.
>
>I'd certainly be happy to e-mail an MS Publisher file of a label as a sample
>to anyone who is interested in designing their own.