Possible new panel legend technique

[Rob]

Look in the archives..
I tried this with a wax thermal printer (which SHOULD have worked really
good)
It kinda worked, but it was with mixed results..
ONE THING

MAKE SURE you CLEAN the surface really well with alcohol or something, and
lay a t shirt or rag between the print and the iron...

Also, let the iron on cool before you try to peel the iron on...

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Crosskey <chrisc at zetnet.co.uk>
To: synth-diy <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: Possible new panel legend technique


>
>Hi Folks,
>I can't remember if I've just posted something like this (or if anyone else
>has in the past...)
>
>I've just got some iron-on transfer paper so that you can make tee-shirts
>and mousemats etc using the output of an ink-jet printer. My thought is
>this....it should be possible to use them with powder-coated panels.
>Powder-coat is fairly resistant to heat (more so than the neoprenbe in
>mousepads I would have thought) and the iron on process doesn't involve
>high heat settings....Using my plotter and its fibre-point pens it should
>be possible to make reversed artwork to iron onto blank (white) panels,
>even in colour too :-)). I've made a <Dial> macro for my PCB CAD package,
>which has a plotting output I can trust, and am currently awaiting a
>delivery of white powder-coated panels. For non-gap-critical layouts
>(anything where the PCB isn't held on by potentioemters etc) then you could
>probably get away with inkjet output and some scaling experiments with
>normal paper first....
>
>If this works it wil give me professional, fairly hard-wearing (I use it on
>a mousemat) panel layouts that are easily repeatable, availabel in almost
>individual quantities (I guess 2 x 9" x 3" from an A4 or up to a 9" x 9" is
>OK, cheap to produce, and don't require either any equipment I don't
>currently have or my presence on the far side of the local cityy to get to
>it, and also the chance to do WYSIWIG preruns on papa`er to see how it'll
>turn out. Finally (and most usefully) I can generate graphics output (OK,
>it's .IMG, but I have converters) from the package. Combine this with just
>how friendly Scooter is as a CAD program and I'm hoping that I've jkust
>found a personal holy grail of the last couple of years.
>
>If anyone out there is using Scooter for Atari or Windows I will happily
>post you my DIAL.MAC file (it's pretty tiny) for a 19mm knob, and I'll
>generate another opne for 16mm knobs soon. It took me about an hour to put
>it together, I guess it'll be abbout 30minutes or so to take the master
>panel layout (8 dials on the Modulus published spacings) and turn it into
>any given panel....
>
>Oh Lord please let it work :-)) Will post results in due course, though if
>anyone else has some of the stuff kick ing around and the materuials (and
>curiosity) to experimetn, I will not claim any kind of precedance :-))
>
>chrisc
>