General Interest: Tyvek disk sleeve material costs

[+OLD CS1]

A lot of manufacturer floppy disk sleeves (jackets) were produced using a Tyvek-like material, if not actually Tyvek. Commodore, Apple, and TI are the ones with which I am familiar doing this.

 

I decided since we have templates for the TI floppy sleeves around and with the abundance of high-quality print-capable ink jets and color laser printers, why not see about printing a bunch?

 

A quick search and I found where you can get 100 sheets of Tyvek ink jet-only US letter (8 1/2 x 11) sheets. For about 95¢ each. Not all that inexpensive. Made me wonder what it cost to produce these back in the 80s, even accounting for bulk orders, considering they had to be cut and glued, as well.

[Omega-TI]

I dunno, but IIRC Tyvek & ink jets do not make for a decent copy. I know conventional offset printing works, but when it comes to laser printers I have no clue if anything in the paper could harm the fuser or not. But if you want to use some cardstock or coverstock you could probably print up a fairly decent sleeve on either type of printer using the PDF attached below.

 

 

TI - Diskette Sleeve.pdf

[digdugnate]

here's more about Tyvek than i ever needed to know, lol.

 

http://www.dupont.com/products-and-services/packaging-materials-solutions/industrial-packaging/articles/printing-with-tyvek.html

[+OLD CS1]

That is a lot of information.

 

These are the ones I found.

 

8.5" x 11" Tyvek Inkjet Sheets

 

But looking a little more I found these about half the price (though they are titled for laser printing, the page actually says the material will melt in a laser printer.)

 

Inkjet Tyvek® by Fusion Digital Paper

 

And there are more out there.

[digdugnate]

i have a related story to that, then i'll continue to comment on the actual topic.

 

in my days as a hardware tech, i've seen folks run transparency sheets and labels (non laser) through a laser. Fusers do some pretty crazy stuff