A Bit of a update / change
Thanks to everyone who has shown an interest in this project.
The printers sent me some samples yesterday, and it looks like I was a bit wrong about the way they make the labels.
As we know, the originals from the 60's were printed onto thin foil with an adhesive backing.
Apparently, this company photo etches onto aluminium plate, and the minimum thickness is 0.5mm. Adding the adhesive backing would make them up to about just under 1mm thickness.
Obviously this is not quite the same as the original, but they will definitely look exactly the same, just a bit thicker.
They will certainly be a lot more hard wearing, and the samples look quite good.
I would like to show everyone what they will look like, but as this is a fairly small job for the printers, they are unable to produce an exact sample of the job prior to the go ahead.
The other thing is that they will be able to make up any other plates we need.
At the moment we are making up artwork for the big instruction plate that goes over the instruments, the 'Plate recording vehicle repair', (that they had when accepted - I've never seen an unfaded one of these) and the Black Out label.
So is the change from a foil sticker to an alumimium label an issue?
I did talk to a couple of businesses that make 'foil stickers' but was told "That will cost you 1000's of dollars". I suspect that they were not interested!
Let me know if this is an issue, if you have changed your mind, no worries.
I am still going ahead at this stage with the labels for my vehicles.
Cheers,
Mike.
