Well ... I don't know who, and really don't care to read through 96 pages of postings to see who might be thinking of sticking a label over a hotstamp. It's your choice, if you want to destroy the center of your chip (and I guarantee that you will entirely destroy several) then so be it. To be perfectly honest, a hot stamped chip with a label on it will look, like crap unless you can sand down to the bottom of the hotstamp so that it doesn't show through. Alternatively you could fill the intentation if the chip is scraped, and then you've got to figure out how much room there is for you to put a label on and whether there will be adequate clearance so that the labels don't rub against each other.
There are too many variables for an exact how-to. The proper way would of course to apply the inlay properly and with heat and pressure. But you should be able to slap the label on the chip without too much effort if you're determined to do that.
Insofar as the textured label is concerned, that's created by the compression mold, not from the "label" as the inlay is pressed into the chip and bonded permanently to the chip material.
If you're just going to print labels, then something like Photoshop will be more than adequate if you're already familiar with it's use. If you're going to design your own label you'd probably be better off with Illustrator, but if you don't already know how to use it, it's not likely that you'll be able to learn it in time to create your labels; it requires time and training.
Though to be perfectly honest, just from reading the questions in your original post, I'd suspect you're already on a path to disappointment and may be jumping into this a little too quickly.
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Originally Posted by MovingTarget Uh...lots of people that are participating in the Group Buy are talking about doing their own labels. I'm definately going with the Paulsons and I would appreciate some help with that assumption in mind.
Oh, and they're NOT inlaid chips, they have hot stamps as stated above.
Here is the link to the Group Buy: http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/group-...amp-chips.html |
