Code numbers are the key to organizing your studio or lab

Monday 15th June 2015

The new ceramics is about data! Everything here has a insight-live.com/glossary/302">code number (in the form x1234) that members of our team can search in our group account at Insight-live.com. We write the numbers on the bottoms of pots, plastic bags of powders/liquids/pugged, buckets, glaze balls, mix tickets, test bars, tiles, glaze samples, drying tests, flow tests, sieve analyses, LOI/water content tests, etc. Glazed fired pieces can have up to three numbers, the body, engobe and glaze. If something is lacking a number it goes in the garbage because it teaches nothing and is therefore taking up pointless space.

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Every studio, lab, classroom needs a good label printer, Fitting an engobe to have the same firing shrinkage as the body, Insight-Live, Code Numbering

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