Anybody know a source for old logos as stickers?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

I’m planning on finally retiring my Logitech T-BB18 trackball. I’m getting a white M585, and putting a T-BB18 ball in it to make it look more like the T-BB13 I had in my teens. I’ve already tested this, it works. What would really set it off (other than seeing if I can dye the scroll wheel red) would be to get a nice little vinyl sticker of the old Logitech logo. But I can’t seem to find anything.

I thought about just getting another T-BB13, since it was actually USB. But, I remember what a pain it was to take out the ball and clean it. I’d rather get a new M575 that is both Bluetooth and dongled USB.

T-BB13 Image

T-BB18 Image

M575S Image

Old Logitech logo Image

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JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are two things to consider:

You can get custom stickers. There are lot of suppliers and they are not expensive, even for small quanitities. You can also get stickers to print on your inkjet

However: Those logos are not vinyl stickers, they are printed on. You might want to take a look at those transparent transfer stickers people are using for their model planes or research how those custom lego printing places are doing it
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who@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
duckduckgo.com/?q=custom+stickers

If I were doing it, I would try to find someone with a laser cutter, make a stencil of the logo, and use it to apply paint (or fingernail polish) directly to the device. I suppose there might even be a custom stencil service out there somewhere.

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- BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s not a bad idea. I do know someone with a laser cutter, actually. And I’m sure my wife has those colors in her over 700 bottle collection of polishes.
  
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b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You mean a M575S? Because the 585 is just a common mouse. Finding old (obsolete, abandoned) logos as stickers is really hard. The fact that adhesives don’t last forever and ink of all sorts will fade in sunlight doesn’t help either. You best chance might be to find somebody with screen printing equipment. (Nothing to do with screenshots!) Repair cafes and the like often have them and many are also offering workshops for very little money. You might even get a small screen printing device (screens, press, roller, paint plus photoreactive paste, more than good enough for stickers) for little money. The printing process for a simple two to four colour logo is ridiculously easy.
Another way is scanning or otherwise acquiring the logos, optionally transforming them to SVG to soften the edges and having a copy shop, repro workshop or print shop print them on adhesive foil. Don’t be too cheap or you’ll end up with stickers that will drastically fade in realtively short time.

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- BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, I definitely meant M575. I mis-typed it in one spot. Just fat lingered. I guess I should have specified that I also want the solution to be cheap. Preferably sub-$20.
  
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