I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

On Friday, 16 November 2018 05:02:29 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

https://www.photopaperdirect.com/cat... AEgJz1fD_BwE

On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive. That
way the markings are protected.

Cheers
--
Clive

On Friday, 16 November 2018 09:12:02 UTC, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive. That
way the markings are protected.

you have to be careful of transparent film as most laser printers can't take it as they melt. You can get laserwriter compatable stuff. We've had a few people do it and the roller needs replacing.
I use an inkjet for such things.



Cheers
--
Clive

On 16/11/2018 11:37, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 16 November 2018 09:12:02 UTC, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive. That
way the markings are protected.

you have to be careful of transparent film as most laser printers can't take it as they melt. You can get laserwriter compatable stuff. We've had a few people do it and the roller needs replacing.
I use an inkjet for such things.


Good point, and I've seen it done. Luckily it was the boss who did it.

Cheers
--
Clive

On 16/11/2018 12:04, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 16/11/2018 11:37, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 16 November 2018 09:12:02 UTC, Clive ArthurÂ* wrote:
On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive.Â* That
way the markings are protected.

you have to be careful of transparent film as most laser printers
can't take it as they melt. You can get laserwriter compatable stuff.
We've had a few people do it and the roller needs replacing.
I use an inkjet for such things.


Good point, and I've seen it done.Â* Luckily it was the boss who did it.

Cheers
Inkjet ink fades like a bitch. Laser does not.
Get a large compatible product.


--
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes.

On Friday, 16 November 2018 12:35:43 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/11/2018 12:04, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 16/11/2018 11:37, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 16 November 2018 09:12:02 UTC, Clive ArthurÂ* wrote:
On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive.Â* That
way the markings are protected.

you have to be careful of transparent film as most laser printers
can't take it as they melt. You can get laserwriter compatable stuff.
We've had a few people do it and the roller needs replacing.
I use an inkjet for such things.


Good point, and I've seen it done.Â* Luckily it was the boss who did it.

Cheers
Inkjet ink fades like a bitch.

That depends on the paper and the ink.

injet printers tend to have better resolution and colour too.
Which might not be important for labels. But then again transparncy film is normally low resolution.




Laser does not.
Get a large compatible product.


--
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 03:37:52 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave
wrote:

On Friday, 16 November 2018 09:12:02 UTC, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Print in reverse onto transparent film, then use spray adhesive. That
way the markings are protected.

you have to be careful of transparent film as most laser printers can't take it as they melt. You can get laserwriter compatable stuff. We've had a few people do it and the roller needs replacing.
I use an inkjet for such things.


I print in reverse onto laser-grade film which can then be stuck on to
a flat surface. Maybe using that meltable tape used for sticking
fabric together with a hot iron. If you can accept a crap finish,
laser print in reverse on ordinary paper then iron it on - the toner
melts onto to the surface.
--
Dave W

The problem I see though is that the surface of untreated Ally is an oxide
and nothing tends to stick to it very well. Most of the panels that I used
to inspect were anodised then screen printed.
Brian

--
----- --
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please
Note this Signature is meaningless.!
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
news
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Look at 'waterslide decal paper' on Amazon.

Theo

On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

Hmm. I have used both peel and stck vinyl and water slides for this for
my aeromodellinmg

Never ironed anything on.

The pro way is silk screeen and anodising or silscrreen and ink.


--
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Have you looked at the photo etch process onto anodised ally? Gives superb
durable results - although the colours available are more limited that
with a printer.

You can either make the original panel like this or use a thinner one as a
skin, and glue over the original.

--
*If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Friday, November 16, 2018 at 1:57:26 PM UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Have you looked at the photo etch process onto anodised ally? Gives superb
durable results - although the colours available are more limited that
with a printer.

You can either make the original panel like this or use a thinner one as a
skin, and glue over the original.

--
*If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I did a quick repair on a iron on edge on a drawing table. Not having done it before I put a piece of paper between the iron and the edge. The toner text lifted near perfect onto the edge of the table.

On 16/11/2018 05:02, Bill Wright wrote:
I need to print panel layouts on a laser printer and then fix them onto
aluminium panels, presumably by ironing them on. Does anyone know of a
product that will do this?

Bill

One option is to print with a laser printer onto Press-n-Peel paper and
acid etch the aluminium.

SteveW