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dirt bike decal manufacture
Does anyone know how to make the heavy duty type graphics that go on motorbikes such as motorcross enduro and trials etc.
They are the raised type stickers which have a gel coat thick clear layer on them. Get my drift anyone??
I would like to try and make some for members of my local bike club.
PM me if it is a secret.
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I know where you get stuff for this designed for the moto xross market but its not the thick gell type got printable clear and laminate and waiting for white printable to arrive as we speak Called Convex
Give us a shout if you want more info and by god it is sticky stuff.
Goop
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quote paddy:Does anyone know how to make the heavy duty type graphics that go on motorbikes such as motorcross endure and trials etc.A few years ago I printed (screen printed) thousands of sets for a company called WERX. They supplied the clear substrate by the pallet load, basically its a 3mm thick, clear and extremely flexible sheet, similar, if not the same to the self cling we still use for labels etc, on car windows………. Its supplied without any backing sheet, reverse printed and a double sided self adhesive applied to whole of the printed side. The various parts were then die stamped out.
These are made to last, and have to be, and no chance of scratching off the print under all that plastic, my advice / opinion is not to bother with the versacamm / cadet printed and laminate route, as it simply is not up to the job, unless the material can be printed in reverse on a suitable material.
Another problem are the inks, they are in most cases mixed to very vibrant colours, again the screen printing process provides a very opaque print with a mix of these and translucent inks gave excellent tonal range and colour graduations, and the printing was finally backed up with white, giving the colours depth and allowing white parts to be seen, another problem with digital. ( or can you print white ?)I don’t know if there are any other ways to do it, but this is how they were done when I printed them.
I had some large sheets knocking about somewhere in the various stages of completion, if i find them I’ll post a picture or two ! -
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Having seen some of the mx-stuff / “Danger” do, i would agree that they produce some good stick on’s, but having a look at the website is disappointing !……….. It’s really a bug bear of mine when people go to all the trouble to produce quality stick on graphics, and then make a right pigs ear out of producing the web site’s on line graphics ( see below )
jagged edge images, and unclear graphics, haven’t they heard of anti-aliasing ?
this is a good web site with good designs, but it could be great !
This one is from another of their websites, but this time has anti-aliasing of all of the images on all the pages, much better.
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