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Substitute for rub-on lettering

3/14/2000 12:20 PM
Mark Hammer	Substitute for rub-on lettering Avery makes some laser-printer clear labels that can sub for rub-on lettering for making up chassis legends and such. I paid $10Cdn for a pack of 120 of these (4.25" x 1.33" each), which should last me quite a while. Personally, I miss Letraset, and its ability to look for all the world like silk-screening once laquered. On the other hand, having a broader choice of fonts, sizes, and graphics to incorporate in chassis labels is kind of nice. Still don't know if these will take any sort of laquer (e.g., nail polish) without curling at the edges or disintegrating. Hope to find out later today.

3/14/2000 12:20 PM

Mark Hammer

Substitute for rub-on lettering

Avery makes some laser-printer clear labels that can sub for rub-on lettering for making up chassis legends and such. I paid $10Cdn for a pack of 120 of these (4.25" x 1.33" each), which should last me quite a while. Personally, I miss Letraset, and its ability to look for all the world like silk-screening once laquered. On the other hand, having a broader choice of fonts, sizes, and graphics to incorporate in chassis labels is kind of nice. Still don't know if these will take any sort of laquer (e.g., nail polish) without curling at the edges or disintegrating. Hope to find out later today.

3/14/2000 12:48 PM
AMZ	I found someone who would make custom rub-on lettering for me. The idea would be to have a collection of all the most commonly used terms on one sheet so they can be rubbed off as whole words. I didn't get good response over on Aron's bbs and I'd hate to get stuck with 500 sheets of letters. I'm still slightly interested in this so post a reply or send an e-mail if you're interested as well. -Jack

3/14/2000 12:48 PM

AMZ

I found someone who would make custom rub-on lettering for me. The idea would be to have a collection of all the most commonly used terms on one sheet so they can be rubbed off as whole words. I didn't get good response over on Aron's bbs and I'd hate to get stuck with 500 sheets of letters.

I'm still slightly interested in this so post a reply or send an e-mail if you're interested as well.

-Jack

3/14/2000 4:58 PM
Mike I.	That sounds interesting Jack! A bunch of VCF VCA ADSR VCO PWM "0...10 rings" ON OFF VOLUME etc would be nice. Would these be any good as etch resist transfers? Mike (Fed up with buying Rat Shack transfers that have only a paltry supply of IC footprints)

3/14/2000 5:00 PM

R.G.

quote:
"Would these be any good as etch resist transfers? Mike (Fed up with buying Rat Shack transfers that have only a paltry supply of IC footprints)"

Techniks Press-N-Peel plus any PC drafting/drawing/PCB program is faster and easier. Easytrax is a PCB layout program that's free. There are others as well that are cheap.

3/14/2000 5:13 PM

AMZ

quote:
"Would these be any good as etch resist transfers? "

I agree with RG on this; the PnP or DynaArts laser print transfer papers are better for etch resist.

The one advantage with rub-on letters is that you can get white lettering (or most any color).

-Jack

3/14/2000 7:30 PM
Dean Hazelwanter	I'm definitely interested, especially if it can be had in white, and if we (prospective purchasors) can suggest text to be included. Reasons: White on black looks much more impressive (IMO) than black on white. I'm in the final stages of building the multi FX rack system I've been whining about for a looong time. Part of the reason I've been procrastinating finishing this unit is the problem of decent looking lettering. I realize most of the people here would be interested in the standard distortion type texts, but since all of the text strings I'd propose are for different types of effects (phase shifters, pitch shifters, EQ, delays, trem etc) others may be able to make use of them as well. Depending on font size, a lot of text can be put on to an 8 1/211 sheet. As long as the price is even remotely reasonable, I'd be overjoyed* to purchase multiple sheets because this stuff is such a PITA to source, and I'd like stockpile enough to last a long time! I'll be watching this thread VERY anxiously! Here's hoping Jack can get sufficient response to make this possible.

3/14/2000 7:30 PM

Dean Hazelwanter

I'm definitely interested, especially if it can be had in white, and if we (prospective purchasors) can suggest text to be included.

Reasons:

White on black looks much more impressive (IMO) than black on white.

I'm in the final stages of building the multi FX rack system I've been whining about for a looong time. Part of the reason I've been procrastinating finishing this unit is the problem of decent looking lettering. I realize most of the people here would be interested in the standard distortion type texts, but since all of the text strings I'd propose are for different types of effects (phase shifters, pitch shifters, EQ, delays, trem etc) others may be able to make use of them as well. Depending on font size, a lot of text can be put on to an 8 1/2*11 sheet.

As long as the price is even remotely reasonable, I'd be *overjoyed* to purchase *multiple* sheets because this stuff is such a PITA to source, and I'd like stockpile enough to last a long time!

I'll be watching this thread VERY anxiously! Here's hoping Jack can get sufficient response to make this possible.

3/14/2000 9:13 PM
Mark Hammer	I'd be interested I guess. Actually I'd be interested in even sheets of bold helvetica 12pt that had the right number of each of the letters that crop up most often on chassis. I don't know about you, but even when I could find sheets of the stuff at a decent price, there never seemed to be enough Z's, V's, G's, or T's. Perhaps it's worth asking for suggestions of symbols, terms, type faces and sizes that would keep most builders more or less happy. I suspect that if people knew they could get a sheet with their "greatest hits" on it, they might be more willing to go in with you. I'm not keen on creating more work for you, since lord knows you make enough for yourself (tidy web-site that AMZ is!), but it may be worth keeping some kind of score card or running poll over at AMZ, so you could accumulate a reasonably accurate list of what would make a sufficient pile of people happy to warrant a production run that would sell out. Obviously, for starters, (at least from this crew) one would expect the following terms to enjoy frequent use: IN OUT VOLUME TREBLE BASS MID RATE MASTER TONE DISTORTION SENSITIVITY THRESHOLD 9VDC FREQ DEPTH POWER (or ON) GAIN (or BOOST) LEVEL I offer this up as an initial list, and suggest that people contribute other terms they would like to have at least 2-4 copies of on any such sheet.

3/14/2000 9:13 PM

Mark Hammer

I'd be interested I guess. Actually I'd be interested in even sheets of bold helvetica 12pt that had the right number of each of the letters that crop up most often on chassis.

I don't know about you, but even when I could find sheets of the stuff at a decent price, there never seemed to be enough Z's, V's, G's, or T's.

Perhaps it's worth asking for suggestions of symbols, terms, type faces and sizes that would keep most builders more or less happy. I suspect that if people knew they could get a sheet with their "greatest hits" on it, they might be more willing to go in with you.

I'm not keen on creating more work for you, since lord knows you make enough for yourself (tidy web-site that AMZ is!), but it may be worth keeping some kind of score card or running poll over at AMZ, so you could accumulate a reasonably accurate list of what would make a sufficient pile of people happy to warrant a production run that would sell out.

Obviously, for starters, (at least from this crew) one would expect the following terms to enjoy frequent use:
IN
OUT
VOLUME
TREBLE
BASS
MID
RATE
MASTER
TONE
DISTORTION
SENSITIVITY
THRESHOLD
9VDC
FREQ
DEPTH
POWER (or ON)
GAIN (or BOOST)
LEVEL

I offer this up as an initial list, and suggest that people contribute other terms they would like to have at least 2-4 copies of on any such sheet.

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