Replacing Faded Placards

On Jul 27, 4:25*am, RN wrote:
Looking for information and feedback from anyone who has found a good
method or source for printing or having printed replacement placards
for an aging glider when no longer available from the manufacturer.

John

To replace the printed vinyl type adhesive placard I scan the copies
in the POH or similar or take a photo of the orgiginal and load into
Adobe InDesign or Illustrator as a background image and then lay out a
new one on top of that. Spend far too much time tweeking them to look
exactly like the originals (with logos and illustrations) because even
if nobody else notices I will. Email off the PDF to my local FastSign
store to print on their special printer (UV stable and robust inks) on
adhesive vinyl and have them laminate a top layer over that that as
well. Lots of time wasted but $30 or so out of pocket for a letter
size sheet of placards. If you do want to use a sign store talk to
them ahead of time about what file format they prefer/can handle.

Cut vinyl lettering is not an option for small decals. The cutters
have problems cutting small lettering and there are other problems.

One of the things I've noticed that just trashes several types of
printed factory placards is suncream. Especially where you might have
suncream on your arms and it rubs on the decals. Laminating the
replacement decals is good insurance agains this even if using a
relatively robust ink.

Darryl