[sdiy] Panel Fabricating

[Julian]

Hi David,

Ive spent some ammount of time with the tansfer papers (lasertran) and see two other peoples results also.

Id say theyre ok for diy-looking / prototype pannels, but nothing more.  There's no way, for example, that you could stray into 
commercial projects with them. (im not saying you want to - im just trying to illustrate)

Ive used (commercial) digital print some ammount too.  The advantage there is it can be quite professional looking, and also pretty 
durable (take the moog voyager for example - that has some kind of printed overlay on its control surface).  Of course, you can also 
use all the colours, and, if you find a good printer, they will laser cut the overlays for you.

Silk screening is, as you know, impractical for 1-offs, unless you like exposing / washing screens and much too expensive for 1-offs 
if youre paying somone else.  If you want to DIY the printing itself, theres moderate set-up costs, and some learning curve.

Last option is CNC.  You can sink a lot of cash into such a machine before you get very far, and there's a fair learning curve.  I 
keep thinking my machine will be reddy in a couple of weeks... But ive been thinking that for months now!

Watch this space... : )

Julian



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