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  • Industrial machinery compliance data plate mounted on green factory equipment, showing technical specifications, CE and UKCA markings, safety symbols and an IP65 rating.

    Industrial Labelling Requirements in the UK: What Manufacturers Need to Know About Compliance and Specification
    By Lexicraft • November 9, 2026
    The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 do not simply require a marking. They require one that is affixed “visibly, legibly and indelibly”. That third word is doing a lot…
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  • Close-up of a custom graphic control panel overlay with numbered keypad buttons and colour-coded Yes, No, Help and Cancel controls.

    Custom Overlays UK: How to Brief, Specify and Order Bespoke Control Panel Overlays
    By Lexicraft • November 4, 2026
    Most overlay enquiries arrive as a PDF of the artwork and a question about price. The artwork is usually fine. What is missing is the information needed to quote the…
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  • Printed panel overlays and fascia panels with display windows and control buttons arranged on a manufacturing workbench

    Panel Overlays and Printed Fascia Panels: What They Are, How They’re Made, and What to Specify
    By Lexicraft • October 26, 2026
    Most overlay problems start with a drawing that was never finished. A panel outline, a logo, a few legends, and a note reading “printed fascia, black”. No material called out,…
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  • Interior Example of a Bently Motors automobile - a Lexicraft customer

    Promotional Nameplates and Branded Metal Plates: Custom Options for Corporate and Trade Applications
    By Lexicraft • October 19, 2026
    Walk through a plant hire yard or trade show floor and you can usually tell which badges were specified by an engineer and which were ordered from a promotional catalogue….
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  • Black printed control panel overlays with display cut-outs and coloured function buttons arranged on a production surface.

    Control Panel Overlay Printing: Screen Print vs Digital Print
    By Lexicraft • October 12, 2026
    A drawing lands on your desk specifying a digitally printed overlay because the artwork includes a photographic background and a tonal gradient behind the logo. The same drawing calls for…
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  • Example of the Lexicraft Domed Badge for Caterham - Lexicraft industrial domed badge customer

    What Is Label Doming? A Complete Guide to the 3D Polyurethane Doming Process
    By Lexicraft • October 5, 2026
    When a domed badge starts lifting at its edges after eighteen months on a machine, the adhesive takes the blame. In many instances, the adhesive was never the problem. The…
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  • Industrial label

    Plastic and Engraved Laminates as Nameplate Materials: Where They Excel and Where They Don’t
    By Lexicraft • September 28, 2026
    Open a control panel that has been in service for ten years and you can usually date the labelling by how legible it remains. The engraved laminate tags on the…
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  • Stainless steel equipment nameplate fixed to industrial machinery, showing serial, model and electrical rating information in a factory setting.

    Equipment Nameplates for Industrial Machinery: Specification, Materials and Compliance
    By Lexicraft • September 22, 2026
    The nameplate is often the last component specified and one of the first to fail. By the time it reaches the drawing, the machine’s housing material, duty cycle, wash regime…
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  • Technician inspecting black and grey appliance control panel overlays in a print workshop, with screen-printing equipment in the background.

    Labels and Control Panel Overlays for Brown and White Goods: What Appliance Manufacturers Need to Know
    By Lexicraft • September 14, 2026
    The most aggressive chemical a domestic oven encounters is often the one its owner sprays on deliberately. Caustic oven cleaner, bleach-based kitchen spray, limescale remover, neat washing-up liquid, alcohol wipes….
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