Need Logo Printing Help

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629hugo

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OK. How do you transfer a printed logo to a knife blade for electro etching? What type of printer and paper are needed. I just tried with gloss paper printed from an inkjet and could not get the image to iron onto the blade.
 
General consensus is its not worth the effort to do it your self. Wasn't for me. Contact Ernie at BlueLighting Stencils. He can help you out and there are other folks too but I use Ernie.
 
It's not going to work at all with a inkjet printer as you need a laser printer and even then it's not worth the effort. Get a professional stencil made. I use T.U.S. Technologies.
 
The heck with Ernie. Not impressed with his unwillingness to actually work on the design I wanted and him wanting to just make a plain jane name and location type mark. I went to Patricia at IMG. She is a great graphic designer and is just absolutely a blast to work with. She actually made what I wanted and made it look killer. Highly recommend her.
 
I am using he personalizer plus and a stencil from IMG. I am still figuring out how to get it to darken up though. I may need a different solution.
 
Etch on dc, darken on ac. Call Patricia. She will help you. Don't try to figure it out for an hour, make a five minute phone call and get it done.
 
Brian I've heard that said of Ernie before but it simply hasn't been my experience. I do a lot of one offs, a cattle brand or logo where the stencil is only gonna be used once or twice maybe. I've used Ernie probably 40 or 50 times for these and its always been great. Now granted I am sending him the brand or logo already done. He's not designing it. Did have one time where he felt the logo was too complicated to etch well and we went with just the name of the outfit up on the spine. Different opinions is why we have horse races I guess. Just went on your Instagram, I like your knives. Small slicers is what I do too.
 
Horsewright said:
Brian I've heard that said of Ernie before but it simply hasn't been my experience. I do a lot of one offs, a cattle brand or logo where the stencil is only gonna be used once or twice maybe. I've used Ernie probably 40 or 50 times for these and its always been great. Now granted I am sending him the brand or logo already done. He's not designing it. Did have one time where he felt the logo was too complicated to etch well and we went with just the name of the outfit up on the spine. Different opinions is why we have horse races I guess. Just went on your Instagram, I like your knives. Small slicers is what I do too.
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Thanks for the compliment. I love making small knives. I'm still not sure how well IG works for knives, but maybe someday it will pay off.

I didn't mean to disparage Ernie too much. He was a good guy to deal with, but I needed actual design work, so I needed more.
 
Went back to IG and started following you. Both IG and FB seem to provide a lot of window shoppers for us not so much actual sales. But some. OP sorry for the drift.
 
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