[sdiy] front panel labelling idea

[James Thompson]

Hello Group,
 I use one of these printers all the time. 
 The PC-60 prints 6 colors at a time from over a hundred colors 
including gold and silver metallic on several colors of vinyl. 
 It also has a knife to cut out holes and borders. 
 Don't mean to sound like a Roland add but it's awesome!!

http://www.rolanddga.com/ 
http://www.rolanddga.com/products/printcut/ 

 The thing is you have to draw with a good graphics program like Corel Draw or Autocad 
to create .dxf or .eps file type because the file has to be imported and exported a couple times to convert it to a file type 
compatible with the printer software. 
 If anyone would like a small quantity of something made up, let me know
but as Dave said any good sign shop should be able to do it.

>Dave wrote:
>
>hey all,
> 
>An idea was put to me today to do one off front panels which might interest some of you guys. 
> 
>Use a vinyl printer to print an artwork onto vinyl. These printers are very common in the sign writing industry, and are capible of high quality resaults. I couldn't see a
>sign writer charging too much to print a couple of small stickers, and the resaults would be very hard wearing, as the ink is thermally fused to the plastic vinyl sticker.
>What more the vinyl is available in different colours, including clear......
> 
>interestingly enough, these sort of printers as well as computer controlled engravers, and high end printers are the other trade of synth company roland.