Awesome series! Did you try to print double sided on that preferred laser paper? For the backside you can have a mask and that way increase blackness without having to bond papers. Gonna try this
Yeah, have not tried this. I think the transparency paper is only one sided, although the laser paper can be printed on both sides. Yes, probably the black will be blacker, but difficult to align well for the printer
Does the transparent paper actually need to be aligned if the black on the transparency was dark enough to not let any light through? For example, printers used to make silk screens for silk screen printing can print a solid black on transparent paper. Then could you use larger, say rectangles for ell the white characters to let the color light shine through? This will take a little bit of margin for error out. Theoretically at least.
Yes, that is absolutely correct. In general one can relatively easy screen print the whole thing, it just requires additional resources, which I did not have at the time. One can actually screen print with black colour and leave the digits/lines not covered, then semi-transparent white/silver for the digits/lines.
The project does not take that long. It was one of the very few at the time projects on how to do your own instrument cluster, so I took my time to explain how one can do it. Apologies for not conforming to the tiktok/short attention time span of viewers.
Awesome series! Did you try to print double sided on that preferred laser paper? For the backside you can have a mask and that way increase blackness without having to bond papers. Gonna try this
Yeah, have not tried this. I think the transparency paper is only one sided, although the laser paper can be printed on both sides. Yes, probably the black will be blacker, but difficult to align well for the printer
Does the transparent paper actually need to be aligned if the black on the transparency was dark enough to not let any light through? For example, printers used to make silk screens for silk screen printing can print a solid black on transparent paper. Then could you use larger, say rectangles for ell the white characters to let the color light shine through? This will take a little bit of margin for error out. Theoretically at least.
Yes, that is absolutely correct. In general one can relatively easy screen print the whole thing, it just requires additional resources, which I did not have at the time. One can actually screen print with black colour and leave the digits/lines not covered, then semi-transparent white/silver for the digits/lines.
lol this project only takes not more than 15min and he made 3 video clips on it with so much precautions which is really funny.
The project does not take that long. It was one of the very few at the time projects on how to do your own instrument cluster, so I took my time to explain how one can do it. Apologies for not conforming to the tiktok/short attention time span of viewers.