How to make good looking front panels ?

[Paul Perry]

>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 17:02:09
>To: Christopher_List at Sonymusic.Com
>From: Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au>
>Subject: Re: How to make good looking front panels ?
>
>At 08:57 AM 8/07/97 -0400, Christopher_List wrote:
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>>Just out of curiousity, what material did you screen print onto? Black
>>anodized aluminum? Painted aluminum? Painted steel?
>>What type of paint / ink did you use for the printing? Where you able to
>>clean the screen and use it again at a later date?
>
>My panels are 2mm mild steel.
>
>The holes are laser cut (this seems cheaper if you are doing 30 or more,
plus you can have any outline you want.....ovals, pixies, anything)
>
>The panels are powder coated. This just means they are electrostatically
charged, coloured resin powder blown on, and then baked to the surface. Just
about every stomp box is coated like this. powder coating is a backyard
industry and you can find people who will do singles when they are coating
car body parts - provided you want black. Done well it is perfect;done badly
it is horrid.
>
>You can clean any screen if you use the right solvent and preferably do it
before the ink dries. I don't know what is used on mine - it is just the
standard stuff they have there. Some places that prepare the image on the
screen let you hire the screen.
>
>On the different subject of sources of tiny lettering, this is drying up
because virtually all publishing artwork is now done on computer...but a
LARGE art supply house can get the small stuff in, I believe. Even so, large
adhesive letters are threatened by computer driven cutting pens that cut out
the letters on a roll of adhesive backed vinyl.
>
>I must say though that for the HIGH END PANEL K.Synthfool has said it
all....I dips me lid!
>
>paul perry melb aust (not FL)    
>