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  • 1.  Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    Posted 06-10-2022 10:24
    What manufacturer or printing paper company do you purchase from for your cage cards?

    We are still in the implementation phase of AOPs at our institution and we are in the process of purchasing cage card paper but don't know where we can buy them. Our current approved supplier at our institution only has standard stock paper with no perforation. We want the paper to come with the perforation at the top and at the bottom. See examples below.

    The Zebra printer that we are purchasing is the ZD421 4-INCH DESKTOP PRINTERS. 

    This example has the tear-off strip at the top and the bottom of the cage card. Any input will help us. Thank you.

    Thank you,
    Lisa Sanesanong
    Project Manager
    Research Informatics at Children's Mercy Research 


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    Lisa Sanesanong
    Project Manager
    Children's Mercy Hospital
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  • 2.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    SPEAKER
    Posted 06-10-2022 15:01
    Hi Lisa,

    Here at UCLA we have been using a Card Stock Vendor called Idezi.

    They are familiar with the eSirius product requirements and have been a useful resource for us for quite a few years.

    https://idezi.com/

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    Marshall Reed
    Manager of Information Systems
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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  • 3.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    Posted 06-13-2022 04:17
    Lisa,

     Temple uses a Card Stock Vendor called Idezi.

    Joanne

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    Joanne Drew
    Business Manager, Central Animal Facility
    Temple University (TU)
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  • 4.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    Posted 06-13-2022 08:27
    Our IT dept doesn't want to go through Idezi, which a supplier of devices, printers, and paper. Our IT dept wants to purchase through our existing vendor and supplier. To add Idezi as a supplier can take a few months. Would you happen to have a spec or brand of the paper?

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    Lisa Sanesanong
    Project Manager
    Children's Mercy Hospital
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  • 5.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    SPEAKER
    Posted 06-13-2022 09:21
    Hi Lisa

    I don't have the specific brand of paper/ card stock used, sorry.
    The card stock supply is usually vendor specific from my experience.

    Marshall Reed

    Manager of Information Systems

    DGSOM - DLAM

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  • 6.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    Posted 06-14-2022 06:41
    Ideza is the company UTMB uses for their card stock. We learned a lesson when going live. Test your barcode first before putting on cages. The first batch we printed the readers were unable to read the barcodes. Ideza worked with Cayuse (back then it was eSirius) to correct the barcode font.
    We have Datamax Oneil M4210 cage card printers (purchased back in 2015) which work great. There is a bit of a learning curve when loading card stock and ink rolls.

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    Maylinn Tarbutton
    Coordinator II
    University of Texas Medical Branch
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  • 7.  RE: Vivarium Operations: Cage Card Paper?

    STAR CONTRIBUTOR
    Posted 06-16-2022 13:40

    We have double perforated cage cards, which we purchased through Allentown, Inc. They were fantastic to work with... and we went through a few rounds of prototyping before we got the cardstock in the proper format. I'm sure they are working with another vendor to produce the cardstock, but I have no idea of their identity.... everything we get has Allentown, Inc... all over it. 

    We have solid metal cage card holders, so we had a local metal fabricator remove a section at the top of the cage card holder to provide a space for the RFID antennas to resonate.  We then worked with Allentown to design a double perforated cage card where the RFID antennas would be placed at the top of the card, away from the remaining metal of the cage card holder. I've included images that show how we modified the holders and the antenna placement on the cardstock.  I've also included an example of the layout design provided to Allentown for card layout and antenna layout(yellow card image)... and then lastly a scanned version of the final procuded card (grey card image)

    Here's a video of our cards - in use : https://youtu.be/ZRCOVMtv1Pg

    We activate/deactivate with barcode for accuracy, then count active cards in the facility with RFID. 



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    Evins Wardlaw
    Systems Analyst of Bioresources
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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