Graphic Products Offers NEW Pipe Marking Guide - FREE

A newly updated pipe marking guide, showing the ANSI A13.1 pipe marking standards, is available free from Graphic Products, Inc. This free guide shows the pipe labeling standards that apply to most locations including industrial facilities, restaurants, retail stores, offices and apartment buildings.

The new pipe marking guide has three sections. The upper section explains the label color code. It describes the materials represented by each color; gives examples of those materials; and shows a typical label.

The middle section provides the minimum size equiremets for pipe marking labels. Based on the outside diameter of the pipe or pipe covering it gives the minimum length of the label and the minimum size of the text printed on the label.

The lower section shows how to determine where pipe labels need to be located. Using text and illustrations it shows the criteria used to identify label locations.

Identifying the purpose of a pipe, it's contents, and the direction of flow is important information. The primary purpose of a pipe marker is to help emergency response personel to identify "hazardous materials conveyed in piping systems and their hazards when released into the environment." (ANSI A13.1-1996) This is why pipe markers should be placed such that the contents of the pipe and direction of flow can easily be identified from every possible direction from which someone might approach the pipe.

In addition, proper pipe marking helps your staff, contractors and vendors to quickly see where they are in a system, and understand what is hapening in the system, so they can make the correct decisions, saving time and preventing accidents. For example, a power industry study found that 54% of errors are a result of inadequate or missing labels. (Electric Power Research Institute Study. "Effective Plant Labeling and Coding," NP-6209) Proper pipe labeling is an important component of reducing errors, waste and lost time.

The Graphic Products pipe marking guide is 8-1/2” x 11” in size. This makes it conventient to use as either a wall chart or desk reference. Because it is astandard size it can be placed in a three-ring binder, or just thrown in a drawer. Since it is laminated it is protected from wear and tear, fingerprinters, dirt, grease, and ripping.

This free pie marking guide may be ordered online by going to the Graphic Products’ web site at: http://www.graphicproducts.com/free-gifts/pipe-guide.html, or call them at 1-800-788-5572.

Graphic Products has been a leading label printer and supplies dealer since 1970. They are the manufacturer of the DuraLabel label printer and DuraLabel supplies, and they carry a wide variety of labelers made by other manufacturers. They stock label printer brands such as Brady, Kroy, Brother, K-Sun, Dymo and Varitronics. They also stock a complete selection of labeling supplies, including specialized supplies such as glow-in-the-dark labels, chemical resistant labels and low temperature labels. They even stock supplies for discontinued label printers. Graphic Products specializes in fast, same-day shipping to meet their customers’ just-in-time delivery requirements.

The Graphic Products' web site is located at: http://www.graphicproducts.com/