That's a good way of making labels/stickers. You can also buy laser printable water slide decal sheets which can look very professional. It comes in clear or white which is useful as a laser printer can't print white.

I had a similar panel to do. I laser printed onto white cardstock then cut out the pattern with a vinyl cutter (which had options to print out with registration marks, align, and cut accurately). Then I soaked the card in polyurethane overnight. It came out like thin styrene sheet but with colours, and was strong enough to mount switches etc to.

I saw the thumbnail and got excited thinking it was progress on the T-800. Nevertheless, any video of yours is always welcome.

This is great! More videos please - your machines are an inspiration

Nice fun video. If you print on the glossy side of shipping label backing you should be able to miss out the soaking in water stage. The backing for the clear vinyl may be suitable for printing on to if cut to a suitable size (I've never tried that) and then transfer over the the sticky vinyl.

nice I have to try it

Neat idea!!!

thats pretty sweet

Stop signs are 🛑 octagonal. But excellent and worthwhile video.

Thanks for sharing 👍

I wonder if you could iron the backside of the paper before soaking and get some thermal transfer of the toner to the vinyl? Super low heat, of course...

Awesome! Another method is to print directly to sticky film tape, cut it out and stick it on. The colors and images will be more vibrant. Now, here's a special trick. Spray over the entire surface with several coats of clear, UV resistant lacquer spray. Allow it to completely dry and cure to a hard finish. You may leave it as is, or you can follow it up with a 1200 to 2000 grit wet sanding with a final buff. The results will be stunning with no visible ridge lines. You can stop at around 2000 to give it more of a matte finish.

You can also buy clear sticker stock for your laser printer.

Cool

You can procure water slide decal paper and print directly to this material. This will stick to smooth surfaces. You can get this in clear, and white depending on what you want for the background.

3:00 - LOL

Gives surprisingly effective results - might have to try that myself (albeit with tape and only B&W sadly) ...although, isn't the stop sign normally an octagon rather than a hexagon? (Sorry, I kept looking at it, wondering why it didn't look quite right to me)

i mean, is not a bad idea, but if you are using a laser printer in the first place you could print straight into the vinyl sheet, or buy self adhesive printer paper if you dont mind the white background

hexagonal stop sign

Stick around!

Want me to point out something that has the potential to perpetually bug you?…. If not look away now! Still here? Ok, here it goes…. Stop signs are octagonal, not hexagonal 😊😊 (Don’t say I didn’t warn you, massive fan of the channel btw!)

That's a great solution! Another option would be printing with the laser printer directly on top of the vinyl, you have to put a clear coat on top of it for protection, after printing, as the tonner can scratch easily... I've done that with white and transparent vinyl sheets. There are proper sheets for sale, I have used them, but I also used commonly find vinyl sheets, no problem with my Hp printer, don't know if it's valid for all brands, so BE CAREFUL if you want to try this method, it can potentially damage your printer!! About the drawing software, which one are you using?

4:29 what software ?

This labelling method seems like cheating.