Printing sticky plastic label (2025 Update)

There are a lot of places online these days. Last time I bought later printable vinyl sheet and had some success.

You can print it mirror image on some plastic film using an inkjet printer then use spray adhesive. A colleague did this to make the front panel label for an amplifier he'd made and it looked very professional. I don't know what the plastic sheet was, but it was A4 with a slightly rough side for printing on, the 'outside' being shiny.

Not sure how you'd print white though.

What you are talking about is Overhead Projector Film, I used to use it to produce masks for PCB work any inkjet printer would do.

Richard

Our caravan's oven has temperatures (in degrees C) and dots which presumably represent the point on the dial for each temperature.

The slight problem is that I cannot figure out if the dot 'before' the numerals - or the dot 'after' the numerals is the one you need to select. The dots and the numbers are quite easy to read, I just can't tell what they mean.

Wow, do people still do that?

(I grew up using a special pen, and then crepe tape on mylar film)

J^n

There is another possibility, that the dots between the numbers are temperatures half-way between the numbers either side.

What makes you think the markings will be that accurate anyway? It is often recommended to 'calibrate' an oven - match the marked settings with actual readings from an oven thermometer. This is mainly for cake baking, where 10 degrees can make all the difference...

But that crepe tape would stretch, when you laid it down, and quietly shrink back to its original length, when you were not looking.

DNAMHIKT

I don't expect them to be particularly accurate, but a system of markings which are easy to comprehend didn't strike me as a lot to expect. Evidently...

I didn't say it was fun!

Absolutely not.

I bought a PCB etch kit and it cost about £30 and didn't work.

I now send files to china and get 10 boards back for £20.

Me too. Spent a large part of my life laying out PCBS by hand I am glad we now have computers.

That's why we only used expensive tape. On mylar film

As this is for an oven, would vinyl sheet be okay? Would some other plastic be less sensitive to heat?

Most escutcheons don't get that hot TBH...

Traffolyte. eg...

I don't recognise the abbreviation - and nor does acronym finder.

Can you translate please?

Do Not Ask Me How I Know That

you must be using a p*ss poor acronym finder if it doesn't know that one...

Do Not Ask Me How I Know That

There are a few variations on the same theme.

Another one worth knowing is

BTDTGTTTS

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