Engraved Acrylic Lables

[oceansoul]

Not exactly a DIY electrician type question, but i wonder if anyone has any experience of making engraved labels.

I'm looking for a machine to produce labels such as in the image below. I think that one is on 6mm acrylic. All i can find on Google are eBay special build at home laser engravers. This is for work (we are adding some gauges to a panel and as such need to make labels. I have a dymo style sticky machine but that's a bit naff), and will be used fairly frequently although not everyday.

Sample Engraved Lable

• oceansoul
• 18 Nov 2015

 

[RF Lighting]

Google traffolyte engravers, but make sure you're sitting down...

 

[oceansoul]

Thanks for that. Looking at some links now. Thinking it might be better to have labels made for us at the price of those machines.

 

[Jackrae]

Timpsons the shoe repairers (and key cutters) do engraved labels to customer specs

 

[OwainDIYer]

A lot of key-cutting shops have engraving machines for dog tags etc and would be able to produce simple engraved labels same-day.

 

[mark740]

Goggle cablecraft label shop, I personally recommend the laser cut rather than the engraved traffolyte type.... the plastic is much better, I have order 10's of thousands of pounds worth of labels from here and the quality is great.

I'm not affiliated with them but build a lot of control system cabinets and order them a lot. Not cheap but quality generally isnt.

 

[Screech20]

Douards engraving in portslade (near Brighton) is where we get all out engraved labels made for switch panels and substations etc.

Hope that helps.

 

[oceansoul]

Cheers guys. Going to try a few small local places as suggested above. My local tipsons don't do this sort of engraving for some reason.

 

[mark740]

The problem is the sheet matieral is expensive and comes in huge sheets, you would need another method of breaking the sheets down to fit the engraving machine ( I brought a machine and thought I'd save money )
Good luck

 

[333rocky333]

Lots of wholesalers have a contact to make them, we often get them made via http://www.bewdirect.co.uk/home/p/86/

 

[Lectrician]

I've always used enlabel.co.uk

 

[ericmark]

I used a traffolyte engraver and it took some time to get use to using it, and not to have to re-do labels. One needs to do a lot of labels to be worth learning how to use it.