[sdiy] Inkjet Printing on Aluminium

[Theo]

I tried the 3M stuff some years ago.
For some examples see:
http://members.home.nl/t.hogers/seq&link.jpg
and
http://members.home.nl/t.hogers/P1110013.jpg

The stuff looks "plastic" but "almost" like aluminum.
When using the stuff with a laser printer the bonding of the toner is not
100%,
especially with "wide" black lines and black areas you can wipe off the
toner.
When using a inkjet things get worse.
Inkjet ink dissolves in water, one touch with a sweaty finger and your panel
looks like shit.
Solution is to spraypaint...
However if you have to spray paint any how normal light gray colored paper
can give quite similar results!

I don't use the stuff anymore.

Theo


From: l.a.j.p. vermeulen <l.vermeulen at hccnet.nl>


> Looks like the same product 3M has for many years (??scotchcall)
>
> Bert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "steve thomas" <s.thomas at qmw.ac.uk>
> To: "Synth-DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 9:34 PM
> Subject: [sdiy] Inkjet Printing on Aluminium
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> > Hi all,
> >           I  had heard recently of a special aluminum product called
> > alumajet which allows direct inkjet colour printing onto flexable
> >  aluminium sheet. Thus stuff looks like it could be useful for front
> panels.
> > Anyone on the list  seen/tried it?
> >
> > http://www.horizonsisg.com/AlumaJet/default.asp
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > steveT
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> > Synth-DIY pages:-
> > http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~thomas/synthdiy/index.htm
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