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Replacing Faded Placards
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 |
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Replacing Faded Placards
Hi John,
I print them using Excel with white text on a black background and have them laminated at a Kinko's of OfficeMax store. They look great and last a very long time. Best Regards, Paul Remde "RN" wrote in message ... 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 |
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On Jul 27, 5:25*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 If you Google "inkjet vinyl" and "inkjet aluminum" you will find online vendors of special self-adhesive label making media. The vinyl is sometimes used for DIY bumper stickers which have proven capable of surviving years of car washes. The aluminum sheets have the professional look of OEM factory labels. Of course, you'll have to find or do your own artwork. Bill D |
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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 If the placard is depicted in the flight or maintenance handbooks it's quite easy to make a photo copy and then laminate it. A quick sandwich of double sided carpet tape, the paper placard copy, and clear package tape lasts a surprisingly long time. Andy |
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"RN" wrote in message ... 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. How about a sign shop, and cut vinyl letters. You can also print onto clear vinyl iron-on's (meant for T-shirts) with most inkjet printers, and iron them on to the panel. You have to have a program that writes backwards, though. Jewelry shops usually have engraving machines that can engrave into multi-layered plastic, that has a black top thin layer, and white body, so when the black letters are engraved away, the white shows up. If it is for an instrument panel that is to be used at night, that can be backlit for a really nice look. That is three easy ideas. Any work for you? -- Jim in NC |
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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 |
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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. http://www.engravers.net/aircraft/custom-placards.htm -cheaper than you may think... -Paul |
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Replacing Faded Placards
http://www.engravers.net/aircraft/cu...s.htm*-cheaper than
you may think... -Paul Thanks Paul, just what I needed for my ship. Incredible prices. ~Bruce |
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On Jul 27, 6:25*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 I had the same problem and tried many fixes. I finally discovered that the local trophy shop can make placards much like what you see on trophy stands. This turned out to be the best fix since the placards are printed on aluminum and can be made quite small. The shop in Tulsa charged me $10 for a small one (about 10 to 15 words and 1.5" by 1.5") and $25 for a much larger placard that had various flight limitations and speeds (approx 3" by 5" and 6 lines of info). The type/font was much smaller than anything a plastic engraving shop could do and they look great. I did bring them a hard copy of what I wanted in the right font size, spacing, etc. which I created on MS Word. My placrads were black lettering on silver (aluminum). I don't know if they could do the reverse (black background with white/silver letters) but you might want to chect on this. Thanks - Robert |
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