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did you ever get this done? curious what you did "Kev Pearce (kevp.com)" <spam_OUTlistsTakeThisOuTkevp.com> wrote: Hi, I'm very close to having finished my first semi commericial poject [ amatuer but to sell on ebay ;-) ]. It all fits in a small plastic box/housing 120mm x 50mm. User input/output is via a 2x16 LCD a couple of LEDs and some small panel mounted toggle/push switches. My problem is how do I present this in the box and make it look worth the money? The ideal would be the plastic labels used on 'most' commercial electronics products today. But I'm not sure that this is known as or how to go about asking a printer if they can do this... I've looked at a couple of places on line that do CNC machining of ali front panels but these are very expensive. So my questions: Has anyone ever got small number production runs done of these type of labels/front panels? Ideally in the UK? OR better still is there a system that you can do this yourself? and still get good results? Anyone any other sugestions? Any help greatfully recieved... Cheers Kev/.

You could try a company in the states called Nameplates for Industry http://www.nfi.name Don't know any specifics but I keep getting mail from them at work with examples of what they can do. On 5/5/06, alan smith <.....micro_eng2KILLspam@spam@yahoo.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> > did you ever get this done? curious what you did > > "Kev Pearce (kevp.com)" <listsKILLspamkevp.com> wrote: Hi, > > I'm very close to having finished my first semi commericial poject [ > amatuer > but to sell on ebay ;-) ]. > > It all fits in a small plastic box/housing 120mm x 50mm. > User input/output is via a 2x16 LCD a couple of LEDs and some small panel > mounted toggle/push switches. > > My problem is how do I present this in the box and make it look worth the > money? > > The ideal would be the plastic labels used on 'most' commercial > electronics > products today. > But I'm not sure that this is known as or how to go about asking a printer > if they can do this... > > I've looked at a couple of places on line that do CNC machining of ali > front > panels but these are very expensive. > > So my questions: > > Has anyone ever got small number production runs done of these type of > labels/front panels? > Ideally in the UK? > OR better still is there a system that you can do this yourself? > and still get good results? > Anyone any other sugestions? > > Any help greatfully recieved... > > > Cheers > > Kev/. > > > -

There are some cool things you can do yourself One approach is to use a laser printer and print onto some transfer paper. There was a gel paper product that is dis-continued I think. It worked really well. You could transfer the laser print to your label ( be it metal, plastic or ??? ) using a heated flat surface such as a clothes iron. I used this to make PCBs as well. If you apply laser toner to aluminum , you can etch the aluminum to make a label. I am in the slow process of attempting to create gel paper using gelatin and a silkscreening process. I would be glad to assist you if I can. POD (gus) On 2006-May 05, at 9:22 AM, Clarence Erickson wrote: You could try a company in the states called Nameplates for Industry http://www.nfi.name Don't know any specifics but I keep getting mail from them at work with examples of what they can do. On 5/5/06, alan smith <.....micro_eng2KILLspam.....yahoo.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> > did you ever get this done? curious what you did > > "Kev Pearce (kevp.com)" <EraseMElistsspam_OUTTakeThisOuTkevp.com> wrote: Hi, > > I'm very close to having finished my first semi commericial poject [ > amatuer > but to sell on ebay ;-) ]. > > It all fits in a small plastic box/housing 120mm x 50mm. > User input/output is via a 2x16 LCD a couple of LEDs and some small > panel > mounted toggle/push switches. > > My problem is how do I present this in the box and make it look > worth the > money? > > The ideal would be the plastic labels used on 'most' commercial > electronics > products today. > But I'm not sure that this is known as or how to go about asking a > printer > if they can do this... > > I've looked at a couple of places on line that do CNC machining of ali > front > panels but these are very expensive. > > So my questions: > > Has anyone ever got small number production runs done of these type of > labels/front panels? > Ideally in the UK? > OR better still is there a system that you can do this yourself? > and still get good results? > Anyone any other sugestions? > > Any help greatfully recieved... > > > Cheers > > Kev/. > > > -