Albert,

Considering the effort that you put into this you must be really annoyed with the mis-spelling in the 4th axis column. Many years ago I had a batch of Tee shirts made with a spelling mistake and I hated it.

On some projects I have made face panels by simply laser printing on to adhesive backed paper and sprayed a couple of coats of clear as you mentioned. Recently I have used a laser engraver but that tends to limit the colours. You need light coloured lettering on a dark coloured background. I paint the panel white to start with and then followed by black. The black absorbs the laser light and burns off, but the white reflects the light and stays intact.