Why do folks feel the sticker on top of the pack is chrome?

It’s an after productions replica (poor) built from the stunt (Universal) mold…

Looks like a glare from the glossy finish of the label.

I really think it’s more than that. That’s the same label as the one on the gun which has a mirror finish, (only larger) and what I’m seeing doesn’t seem consistent with the other labels which are merely glossy.

To those folks who think some of the labels are “foil” or “metallic”, but don’t have a mirror finish…

Could you provide some pics of this material on something other than one of the pack labels? Something that gives a better idea of just what the material is supposed to look like?

Just about any industrial machinery will have this type of label, it’s silk screened onto a thin sheet of aluminum or a sheet of aluminumized poly very common and pretty universal…

It looks like brushed aluminum because in many cases it is actually brushed aluminum…

Follow this Google link…

Or this one

Or

Or this…

Thanks for those links Exoray. I went through and picked out a bunch that looked right to me. Maybe we can narrow it down a bit more now…

Hm… too shiny:

Hm… could pass for the HGA label:

Looks like the label on top of the pack, but even though it’s printed on aluminum, the only place it seems to show through are in the stamped numbers. A regular vinyl label could pass for it:

I suppose that could also be a flat aluminum though. Hard to tell. A site I was looking at offered labels in both flat and satin, with satin being the shinier one:

That’s flat btw.

But that’s just how the GB2 pack label looks in Planet hollywood. They look quite different in the movie itself, and the red on this label could be a match:

I suppose this could pass for the injector tube label on the GB2 packs:

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Btw, I found out the other day the round corners on labels like this are called “radius” corners. Engineers sure have weird names for stuff. When they want to tell you a label can be applied to a curved surface they say a “radius” surface. What’s wrong with the word curved?:

The above would be the “satin” aluminum btw. This is flat:

Or is this satin? I only had a drawing to go by on the site which explained the difference:

This label led to an interesting site:

http://www.etch-o-matic.com/stencils.htm

This guy’s site and equipment makes him look like he came from the 1960’s. :slight_smile:

Still $80 for this equipment is a lot cheaper than the $600-$1200 setup fee I saw at one site which makes these types of labels. I don’t know if that’s typical or not though because most of these places don’t seem to want business… Instead of simply telling you what it costs, they want you to fill out this long form so they can contact you with a price quote! Do people really still do business this way in this day and age?

Aha… I finally found a decent pic of some brushed aluminum style vinyl alongside some chrome type vinyl:

So the one on the left is, I guess, what people would want most of the metallic labels made out of. But I swear the type on the right is what’s used on the gun and that one label on the n-filter.

Anyway, I sent an email off to FedEx Office to see if they print on the type seen on the left. The one on the right is probably the only one they print on though, and from what I’m hearing that’s not what folks are looking for.