Making Fontpanel Labels

Ethan Dicks asked about label sheets for front panels. In the past you could get brushed aluminum material with a black coating that was etched away with printed circuit board chemicals. (Kepro made it but they are going out of business.) The front panels of SWTPC equipment used this material. I have not found anyone who does this in small quantizes (One or two units.) There is a fellow selling Altair front panel labels on eBay, so someone must do it. There is a mail order company here is Seattle, Rippedsheets.com, that sells satin finished aluminum sheet you can run through a inkjet printer. They sell a bunch of different types of material for inkjet and laser printers. http://www.rippedsheets.com/inkjet/alumi.html http://www.rippedsheets.com/inkjet/whitepoly.html I have not used it because it works with Epson printers (they keep the stock flat.) I used FrontPanelExpress to make the back panel of my TV Typewriter. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/CT_1024/Restore/BackPanel.htm Back in the 1960s and 1970s I would hand ink my panels with a Leroy Lettering Set and spray clear Krylon on them. A lot of work but they looked nice. Michael Holley www.swtpc.com/mholley