Scott,
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for here. Prepainted panels,
I understand. When you say "give away the artwork", I don't have any
fpd artwork to give away, and I really don't have any interest in
creating it. It's a LOT of work, and not really directly related to
doing stooge panels. I happen to work in CorelDraw since that's what
our original screen printer required. I hope I don't have to learn a
new art program if we switch to engraving.
With regards to doing you own silkscreening: if you don't have
professional equipment already and experience, good luck. I went
through the stage of trying to do it myself trying to produce the very
first stooge panel. Those kits that you can buy to spread the emulsion
on yourself, expose to light, etc. are hardly adequate for t shirts,
much less high resolution text on metal. The screens I came out with
were also flimsy, hardly able to print more than 1 pass. It was pretty
disgusting!
Moe
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Scott K Warren <scott@r...> wrote:
>
> Me again --
>
> If the Stooges do supply punched Polan panels to Paul S, I hope you'll
> also offer punched Polan for Stooge Panels and my custom panel designs,
> even if you don't want to mess with silk screening them.
>
> If you don't want to offer silk screening, then I will be happy to buy
> blank (non-engraved) punched Polan panels and silk screen them myself.
> This would be easier if you gave away artwork for Stooge Panels, but
> I would also be willing to create my own artwork for silk screening.
>
> FrontPanelExpress says they will take my blank Polan panel (which I buy
> from Paul S) and fabricate my .fpd design into it. If my design has just
> the holes and not the graphics, this is not too expensive. But it would
> really be great if I could get the same result from Stooge Industries
> without the hassle of ordering a blank, waiting for it to arrive, and
> then shipping it to FPE. Even better for Stooge Panels, since I probably
> wouldn't need to provide an fpd file.
>
> In any of these cases I'd do my own silk screening. I would rather have
> somebody else do it, but I'll do it rather than switch to engraving.
>
> Thanks,
>
> skw