plant labels

I am so tired of my wood labels rotting in the ground and the plant names fading off that I have bought some study plastic stake (8" high) and am hunting for a small label printer that will work from my computer (preferably) and has labels that won't fade or fall off the plastic. Any suggestions? Thanks xuling

I got a cheep enough and good enough one from Office Depot when I visited USA last year, you can print the labels, all colours, free from the computer by the use of batteries, or attach it to the computer, it came with leads etc, I use the plastic tape you can but from the same place, they dont fade and you peel of the backing and stick your printed label onto whatever you want, good also for indoor shelves, kitchen storage etc. hope this helps you start the search, they have a web site too so you can check out all the other labeling ideas, good luck. WeeNel.

The daylily people I think have had information on the P Touch labels on Eon markers. I use some homemade ones with soft engraved metal.

Just popped up again
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/585902/

Thanks all, maybe my frustration is about to end. Then the hard work begins in creating around 500 labels (I really don't know how many because it seems like thousands of plants in my yard). xuling

I do not use a printing machine. Instead I use a paint pencil that can be bought for 4 or 5 dollars at art supply stores. Its cheap , easy and lasts.

Growers labels are a useful record of purchases and plant information.
Many of mine are heaped in a drawer, others are in an indexed box.
Does anyone have any ideas on a good way to store these labels?

A neighbor of mine uses a 3 x 5 index card box for his.

He obviously doesn't have a very big garden if they fit in a tiny little box like that! I kept all mine in a leftover cardboard box from some mail order plants. But then that got filled up, and I found I was never going back to look at the tags anyway, so I threw those out and don't save them anymore.

Most of his plants are well known. The ones he keeps are the relatively rarer ones. :-)

Thanks for those comments.
I was wondering whether labels could be filed in an album so that both sides could be read. They would be a useful source of reference if filed in alphabetical sequence. Perhaps an album designed for photographs could be adapted to this purpose.
I have yet to find anything that works well, ie attractive and flexible.