Etching with PNP Question

[Barcode80]

I'm a little confused by the etching process using PNP transfer. I'm wanting to etch an enclosure, do you reverse the image and print on the PNP or are you somehow to transfer the image from a plain printout to the PNP and then to the box. I'm so confused!!!

[$uperpuma]

the way I do it is I reverse the image, print it on paper, cut out a piece of PnP a little bigger than the image, tape it to the page and put the paper back through for the PnP to get the reverse image..then you follow MarkM's tutorial EXACTLY...

[Pushtone]

I'm wanting to etch an enclosure, do you reverse the image and print on the PNP or are you somehow to transfer the image from a plain printout to the PNP and then to the box. I'm so confused!!!

The answer is you reverse the image and print on the PNP.
Print on the dull side.

Superpuma describes how to do it by cutting out a small piece of PnP and taping it to a printed sheet.
This show the printing process too.

http://www.tonepad.com/photoessay.asp?photoEssayID=10&sequenceNo=1

One mistake I made was to reverse the whole image.
That put my IN and OUT labels on the wrong side after I mirrored the image.
The other words were ok because they are in the middle and flipped on the axis.

So mirror labels on there own axis, not the pedal's.
The IN is really on the right side but etching is permanent. Unless you sand it off.