You might consider pricing out each step seperately. Get prices for someone to cut the lexan, and get prices for a screen printer to print the front. You may even be able to find these two suppliers/services locally and save on shipping. I'm surprised the price is so high, though. Setting up a simple lexan panel on eMachineShop.com (7" x 1.45" x 0.160" polycarbonate, several holes, all done with turret punch, and two color silkscreening) gives me $1,582 for 1,000 parts, including shipping. You should be able to find something less costly than emachinshop. -Adam On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Forrest W Christian wrote: > I'm currently laser printing product decals (legends) onto permanent, > waterproof avery labels and then using a vinyl cutter to slice them to > the appropriate shape. This works quite well, but the labels are thin > enough that its a real pain to apply them since they like to deform, and > they are somewhat labor intensive to print and cut (although not *that* > bad). > > I'd like to get some "real" lexan or similar overlays. Unfortunately, > every quote I've gotten (7x1.45", 5 holes/cutouts, 2+ colors) is > somewhere around $1-2 each for Qty 1000 (usually closer to 2). > > Has anyone come across a vendor which doesn't cost an arm and a leg to > have some of these made. > > -forrest > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- EARTH DAY 2008 Tuesday April 22 Save Money * Save Oil * Save Lives * Save the Planet http://www.driveslowly.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist