<div><div dir="auto">Another option is to find someone with a CRICUT (vinyl cutter) and have them cut you out transferable vinyl. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your inkscape file should put out SVG / PNG which are input files to the CRICUT design software. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Giant Mike</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:17 AM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>
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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" target="_blank">frontpanelexpress.com</a> may
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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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at 20:50 Jeff Hubbs via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 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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