Sticker for enclosure

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Hi,

I’m looking for these thick looking stickers you place on enclosures. Sometimes they can be embossed to allow access to push buttons. They also come clear to allow reading displays or LEDs…

Sparkfun used to provide a service to build custom enclosures, and they had one of these stickers… I think it was for a rowing device… In2Rowing?

Anyhow, I’m looking for a way to get a few of these stickers manufactured. Any idea where I get this done?

Thanks!

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Someone on the Arduino forum is doing what you want I think, take a look at this thread:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB … 1256577963

:slight_smile:

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http://www.nameplatesforindustry.com/Pa … plates.htm

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george graves:
http://www.nameplatesforindustry.com/Pa … plates.htm

Thanks for pointing me to these, though none of these solutions worked. The first link, the cheapest solution never got back to me.

The second company was way to expensive for me (over $300).

I’m considering building these types of overlays myself… Any idea how to do it???

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I’ve had similar problems. I now make my own using a colour laser printer, normal label sticker paper, an A4 laminator and steel hole punches to produce the holes (do the holes before laminating so the holes are see through but still covered by the laminate).

Here is the result including a custom steel enclosure I designed and plasma cut then powder coated. Total cost £8 for the steel 2 piece enclosure, 5p for each sticker (cost of paper and laminate divide by total stickers produced from it), and £3 for powder coating = £11.05 :smiley:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/585/photo729.jpg

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The enclosure looks very nice, but I have no idea what its for :shock:

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angelsix:
I’ve had similar problems. I now make my own using a colour laser printer, normal label sticker paper, an A4 laminator and steel hole punches to produce the holes (do the holes before laminating so the holes are see through but still covered by the laminate).

Here is the result including a custom steel enclosure I designed and plasma cut then powder coated. Total cost £8 for the steel 2 piece enclosure, 5p for each sticker (cost of paper and laminate divide by total stickers produced from it), and £3 for powder coating = £11.05 :smiley:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/585/photo729.jpg

This is a very good idea. I’ll give it a try, though if anybody out there knows how to generate these overlays I’d be interested in knowing.