Templates
Lab label templates
Pick the vessel you are labelling and open the editor with the right size already loaded.
A tube label is sized by circumference and by the straight part of the barrel, which is shorter than the vessel. Each size below is measured from a real vessel and opens the editor at that size.
- Reagent label maker50.8 × 25.4 mmA reagent label has to answer four questions from across the bench: what is it, how strong is it, who made it, and when. This template starts with those four and prints at a true 50.8 × 25.4 mm.
- Sample label template38.1 × 19.05 mmA sample label is read once, in a hurry, usually while wearing gloves. The identifier has to win the fight for space against everything else on the label.
- Cryovial label template28.6 × 12.7 mmCryovial labels fail for one reason far more often than any other: they were applied to a vial that was already cold. The size is the easy part.
- Microcentrifuge tube label maker25.4 × 12.7 mmA 1.5 mL tube gives you about 26 mm of usable circumference. That is the whole design constraint, and most label software pretends otherwise.
- Eppendorf tube label template25.4 × 12.7 mm“Eppendorf tube” is a brand name that became the generic term for a 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube. The label size is the same either way.
- Falcon tube label template63.5 × 38.1 mmA 50 mL conical has about 94 mm of circumference and 75 mm of straight barrel. It is the most forgiving vessel in the lab to label, and the easiest to over-fill with text.
- Buffer label maker63.5 × 38.1 mmThe buffer label's job is to stop someone using a 10× stock as a 1× working solution. Everything else on it is secondary.
- Media bottle label maker76.2 × 50.8 mmA media bottle is a shared object with an invisible history: what was added, when it was opened, and how many people have been into it since.
- Freezer label template63.5 × 25.4 mmYou find a sample by finding its box. A box lid has room for what a vial never will, and it is read at eye level rather than at the bottom of a rack.
- Aliquot label template25.4 × 12.7 mmAliquots are made in runs, and a run of identical labels is the one thing a label maker should never produce.
- PCR tube label template19.05 × 6.35 mmA 0.2 mL PCR tube has almost no labelling surface, sits in a heated lid, and gets handled in strips. Often the right answer is to label the strip, not the tube.
- Microscope slide label template25.4 × 19.05 mmA slide label has to survive xylene, ethanol and a hot plate, and it has to fit in the 20 mm of frosted end that is not under the coverslip.