Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Recently, I was scavaging a broken terminal concentrator which dates
from the early 90s. The front panel was made out of a printed, self
adhesive plastic sheet that was laminated onto the metal of the
chassis. I peeled it off and it looked to be about 10 mils thick. I
would bet that the material is printable and it felt a lot like the
convering material for membrane switches. Maybe it is available. I
bet it could be directly printed on a laser printer.

Also, the panel I peeled off had a bunch of translucent sections for
LEDs to shine through . Pretty slick but it was probably a custom
job.