makari

So I eventually finished my panel last week and it turned out quite good even though It took a lot of effort to get it right. I went with lazertran inkjet, since I did'nt have a lazer printer and besides, my oven is to small anyway :( On thing you have to be carefull about is to make sure the surface is absolutely flat before applying the decal. I hade a few scratches on my panel that were more or less invisible after painting so i didnt think they would be visible, but after applying the varnish small bubbles formed along the scratches. On one side the edges of the decal curled up around halv a millimeter or so which wasnt all that great but on the other side it stayed flat and there the edges were supprisingly hard to spot after varninshing. On the whole, the results were more that acceptable and if it werent for the edges and a few to many bubbles I'd say it would look quite professional.

Sorry to hear that, it looked promising in theory though. I finally ordered a set of lazertran that I'm gonna mess around with and if it works ok I'm, gonna go with that.

Cool, so this film is put on top of the toner and only adheres to the toner and not the panel. Clever I must say ;D But I have no experience in toner transfer at all unfortunately, is it difficult? Well you don't have to go to town just for me, but some pictures would be nice, tha black on aluminium looks good. And please don't spoil your anodised panels for me. :) I'm thinking of ordering a pack of lazertran to mess around with anyway, they're not terrribly expensive and I can probably find a use for them even if it I don't end up using it for this partucular project. Gotta check if the printers at my university are compatible though...

Sounds interesting, care to explain a little bit about how it works? Does it somehow change the colour of the toner so you can print other colours that black? And yes, please post pictures :)

There seems to quite a few people with experience in doing lazertran stuff here so this seemed like a good place to post :) So I'm thinking about using lazertran for my frontpanel but since I want a mostly black panel with white lettering I'm curious how well it works on large areas. Does it cover the aluminium/basecoat well or does it shine through? Can it crack or crumble or become uneven? Also how black is it compared to black paint or anodising? For white lettering I assume I would have to spray the panel white first, has anyone tried this with the lazer version and baking it. Is it possible or does the heat mess up the paint?