Badge Panel

A vented 1U panel with your own words raised on it, generated to the frame’s own dimensions. The part that says whose rack this is.

Choose: up to 19 characters, how tall the letters stand, and whether they print in the panel’s colour or a second one. Then the vent: its pattern, hole size and density, and the border. Leave the text empty and you get a plain vented panel.

Two colours, one printer. On the two-colour finish the lettering is its own piece in its own filament, and it beds into a solid patch of the panel rather than onto the vent grid — so the letters land on material, not on holes. The vent grid keeps clear of the patch, dropping whole holes round it, and every hole left is still on its grid.

Letters stand proud, and that is deliberate. Sunk lettering cannot hold the middle of an “o” or an “a” — the island has nothing to attach to — so it comes out as a filled blob. Raised letters keep their counters and read cleanly from across a room.

Sized so it prints. We work out the smallest the letters can be before a stroke drops under our 0.8 mm minimum wall, and never go below it: ask for letters too small for the word you typed and you get the smallest that will actually come off a printer. Ask for letters too big to fit between the mounting slots and we bring them down to fit.

Mounting: six 10 x 7 mm slots, three per side, onto the M6 inserts in the front posts.