[sdiy] front panel legend ( was SBM - Recommend Panel Pots & Knobs? Is a 'fake' Scope Risky?)

[steven_thomas]

Hi ..ok since I am at home today so I did a quick test with the letraset
inkjet film
and printed a panel with a colour background. As I suspected ..the colour is
simply not dense enough
to allow you to mount this on an unpainted aluminium panel. The same will be
true for the water-slide
decal paper with colour photocopier I would guess. The only option if you
dont want to paint your panel, is to go for the white opaque self-adhesive
film (eg letraset make this for inkjet printers) .
I havent tried this, but it could be that the film is opaque enough to
produce a dense colour background
and allow you to place the artwork directly on an untreated  panel.
This film is 50 microns thick..so its thicker than the safmat, but still 1/2
as thick as OHP film.
Hope this helps,
cheers steve thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
To: <steven_thomas at ntlworld.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] SBM - Recommend Panel Pots & Knobs? Is a 'fake' Scope
Risky?


> First, thanx for your site.  Is there any way or could you think of any
> way to do panels without spraying, painting etc. mess? Just print and
> stick it.
>
> If I spray something here, I'm sure that a lot of dust particles will
> be caught, also some "noses" drops will form out of the film.  Grrrr...
>
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> m.c.
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