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<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Have you looked at doing silk screen yourself? From a million years ago making custom tshirts: screen fabric in a frame, paint photo resist, expose pattern, wash out, place on object, squeegee ink through screen.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 16, 2019 6:34:39 AM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/15/19 10:28 PM, David Ritchie via
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<div dir="auto">You can try decal sheets that use a inkjet
printer + clear krylon paint. <br>
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My hope was to have white markings on a black surface, which decal
sheets can't help you with. If I made the panel white or light gray,
the edges of the decal paper would still show and I'm hoping to
avoid any "Doc Brown" appearance if I can. :)<br>
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<div dir="auto"> At that price <a href="http://frontpanelexpress.com" moz-do-not-send="true">frontpanelexpress.com</a>
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Says they can't do steel. I sent a message to see if that's still
the case if all I need done are panel markings, not cutting. They
can take .dxf files, which Inkscape will export and in fact that's
how the new holes were made in a waterjet cutter.<br>
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20:50 Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" moz-do-not-send="true">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Reaching
out to the nerd hive-mind here...<br>
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I have a control panel - 19"x5-1/4" (3U), steel, will be
painted black <br>
crinkle - that I'd like to get text and markings onto. I
have the <br>
complete design already worked up in Inkscape. It's not
super-intricate <br>
and I only want to do one color - white.<br>
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I sent my design to a place I found here in the metro and
they want <br>
$210, $85 of which is the "prep" charge that's non-recurring
which does <br>
me fat lot of good because I've only got one piece and
that's all I'll <br>
ever have. I'm willing to pay, but $210 is more than I'd had
in mind. So <br>
I was wondering if any of you have a line on anyone from
whom I might be <br>
able to get a different estimate. Alternatively, would any
of you <br>
suggest I give it a go myself? It wouldn't be the worst
thing in the <br>
world if I tried and screwed it up because the panel can
always just go <br>
back on the belt sander and I'd be back at square one. :)<br>
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- Jeff<br>
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