how are speedometer faces made?

[SOSIGNS]

I am trying to find out how speedometer faces gauge plates are made.
Are they screened - digitally printed?
I need them to be just as good as the factory ones.

Any info would be great!
Thanks

 

[bob]

Just print whatever it is you need. It doesn't make any difference how they're made originally. With a print, especially a print that's going to be behind glass, you should be able to produce any look you have a mind to.

Believe me, no one not in the business will ever know. A client down the road rents out a second home to mountain bikers and he provides a really nice Vermont Castings gas grill for his guests. He wanted to put his logo on the face plate where the control knobs are. So we printed a new face place image featuring his logo. It's been on the grill for a few years and people have asked how he got Vermont Castings to make him a custom grill but now one no how has ever figured out that it's just a laminated print on top of the face plate.

 

[rjssigns]

I am trying to find out how speedometer faces gauge plates are made.
Are they screened - digitally printed?
I need them to be just as good as the factory ones.

Any info would be great!
Thanks

Standard practice is laser cut aluminum face which gets screen printed. Or the way we do it is take the same face and print/lam the faces. Printed on a lot of brushed silver.
I was doing gauge faces for an instrument restoration shop. Learned a ton from him and got to work on a bunch of cool projects.

 

[royster13]

Likely pad printed.....

 

[Bill Modzel]

We used to do prototype speedometer faces for a large gauge company. We's reverse image screen print on clear acrylic. The black background would be opaque and we'd overprint a tinting white for the graphics. We also overprint the white a times with transparent tones of green, red etc to glow different shades of color when backlit.