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Replacement Label for Commodore 8050 Disk Drive

Nivag Swerdna

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Does anyone know which fonts were used for the disk drive labels? Are there reproductions available?

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The label on my drive is covered in drizzle from a poor paint spray job by a previous owner.
 
I'm getting there... there are slight gaps but probably close enough

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I'm not sure if the Logo on the left is meant to have straight or slightly curved edges?
 
It seems the label is actually Black printed on a shiny material which is in turn backed with a white material which is itself sticky. Does anyone know anything about these printing processes? In particular how would I describe the 'silver' colour to a print shop? Maybe rather than 'silver' it is some kind of 'metallic grey'??
Thanks in advance.
 
I think Commodore used a variety different types of labels and processes, like everything else they did. I recently reproduced the label for my PET and had them printed by stickerapp.com. I was pretty happy with the result. It seems that for a shiny label their "mirror sticker" product might work well: https://stickerapp.com/material/mirror-stickers/.

The label I reproduced was originally a thick, textured plastic material. I used their vinyl floor sticker material and the result was a pretty good match for my original label, both in appearance and in feel. Here's a photo:
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I also used their "brushed aluminum" material to reproduce the model/serial number stickers and various warning labels. The material isn't a perfect match (there are striae in the texture in one direction rather than a uniform texture), but it's pretty good and vastly better than the badly damaged original stickers.

Greg

Edit: Here's my artwork if anyone is interested. The magenta line is where the sticker was to be cut:
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Very nice. I have some on order from colour frog... who I think are actually stickersinternational.co.uk. Fingers crossed.
 
They came in and the letters are beautifully shiny. I had to order eight as that was their minimum quantity... so I have some spares...

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