Re: Rescreened cowl delivery plaques

Posted by su8overdrive On 2022/5/25 18:26:48

I know the ancient ink of which you speak. No, my data plate is stamped with the delivery date, serial number, and the dealer's name is deeply scratched into the metal.

My plate has long since been polished to bare metal, so only a matter of wiping it with alcohol or whatever the printer uses before re-inking, silkscreening, whatever.

I am sure many other Packard owners are in the same situation, and would like having their originals re-inked.

The gory details of the process are of no interest to me. I'm only interested in spurring some can-do kinda guy into re-inking our plates.

Perhaps much ado about nothing to many, but again, this plate has the dealer's own signature, all else stamped into the metal, so do not want a reproduction whether from Taiwan or Nebraska. I want mine re-inked.


Mike Grimes at Merritt Packard Parts, suggests the below. I urge you to contact Mike for any needed part 800-472-2573 ext. 6, 317-736-6233 ext. 6, mike@packardparts.com
www.packardparts.com

"I owned a digital print business several years ago. Even then we could digitally print on a clear adhesive medium and the customer could apply it over industrial equipment stainless info plates. Perhaps you could get a local print shop to do the same for you. Back then we would have charged $75/hour for the design and another $75 to print one. With a good source document to scan, a designer should knock this out in 30 minutes. We would have printed 10 for $100. A crazy idea, but an idea non-the-less."

Any signage, lithographer, silkscreen company owners reading these forums who can do this for his fellow Packardites? We mail you a piece of tin, you re-ink it, send it back. Not too complicated. We'll pay an extra five bucks if we don't have to endure a printing technothon online seminar or endless discussion.

Adjusted for a couple years' inflation, what, $25 to re-ink a piece of tin? Can do?

Good thing some of us here gathered weren't running Crosley, let alone Packard, or a car would never have left the factory.