[sdiy] Front Panel blues

[Sam Ecoff]

FWIW, for the one-offs I do, I design vinyl labels in Illustrator and have them printed at my local printer. They have a machine that even cuts out the holes I specify, so I don't have to cut out all of the holes for pots. The labels are self-adhesive, and look pretty good once they're on. I build three CAPI VP26's recently and used this method. They turned out pretty good (pics here along with the Illustrator file) http://www.samecoff.com/VP26.html and I felt the price was fair at $2.50 per sticker.  I also recently did that again for a quad Thomas Henry MPS I'm building, again with very good results. 

HTH

Sam E.
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On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Tim Ressel wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I've been using photo paper for making diy front panels. It works great but has a few drawbacks. A friend told me about Lazertran. He uses the bake-on method where the printing is on the underside where its protected. I tried it twice with dismal results. I've tried printing on transparency materiel and using double-sided tape but the tape shows too much. Does anyone have another method of printing on clear material and attaching it onto aluminum panels?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --TimR