2026-06-10 (W) TerminalBlockLabels COMPLETED

Making the labels legible turned out to be a bigger problem than I thought. Printing in a single color was better than nothing, but only by a little. So long as I printed in a light color, black was out of the question. I could decipher the numbers, but the low contrast was a significant issue. I tried using a marker on the embossed layers, but they tended to rub off and mark up fingers. I tried acrylic paint, but that was prone to smearing in the channels. I tried my dual-extruder printer and printed the text in black and the rest in white, but it left lots of small plastic streamers, and adhesion was poor. The best solution was to use my Sovol SV06 printers, starting with black, and manually switching to white filament after the first layer was down. The color contrast was wonderful, the printer created enough detail for legible characters, even on the smallest labels, and I did not waste any plastic. I printed a handful of labels I expect to need shortly, and I am delighted with the project's outcome.

Two-tone TerminalBlockLabels

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