We're looking for a good vendor for small to medium size faceplates. Here's what we need:
Anyone have a shop they love?
jim
Front Panel Express may not be exactly what the OP was looking for, given the requirement for painting and silkscreening, but for machined and engraved panels I agree that they are good. I have used them on several projects now and found the results to be first class.
We use Chapco, in Danbury(?) CT. They do all that and more, and they have pretty good service even on small orders.
"Jim Stewart" wrote
Speaking of which, has anyone come across some kind of adhesive-backed plastic (produced by 3M?) that can have legends "printed" on it and then stuck to a front panel? We stumbled across a local shop that would do this quite a number of years ago but the shop went out of business before we tried it and have never been able to find a reference to the process since.
I've printed a mirror image of the artwork on overhead transparency film, then glued that to a panel using a 3M spray adhesive. I don't think you'd want to do that on a commercial product, but it's OK for internal use (and a lot easier than Letraset!)
No, but there are various thermal transfer methods you could try (thermal transfer T-shirt paper, for instance).
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