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  Help..Printing on window static cling

  Posted by Steve Curry on 11 August 2006 at 08:11

  I have a job to reverse print some window graphics to be sent out to shops for them to apply, the background to the graphics is shaded from purple to black… so a lot of ink all over, the text needs to be white out of the background. Can this be printed on static cling. Would it be reverse printed on clear and backed in white vinyl, or should it just be reverse printed on removable adhesive clear vinyl and backed in white.

  The graphics do not need to be re-usable, they just need to be simple for the untrained average Joe to apply.

  any help or advice would be a great.

  Peter Shaw replied 19 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Stephen Morriss

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 09:17

  They may work in static cling if they are small but with full coverage the material starts to curl and wrinkle up.
  I would print onto clear vinyl and back with white, not sure you’ll find a clear removable with an optically clear glue though, tried to and the only one that came close was from Grafityp but it wasn’t exactly clear.

  Steve

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  Martin Grimmer

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 09:28

  Steve,

  Have tried flood coating the back of a cling with white vinyl but as others have experienced it curled over time. If there are enough to do, could you get a screen printer just to add the white on reverse once finished – may work.

  Martin

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  Paul Franklin

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 09:32

  Why can’t you get some white static cling, and print the correct way around, and just let the white letters be the white of the vinyl showing through.
  The static cling we use will stick on both sides no bother at all.

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  Steve Curry

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 09:52

  Thanks for this, I was thinking about printing onto white, but will the inks stop it from working, I will be printing using Roland Eco-sol Max inks.

  Unfortunately the customer wants to personalise each print to their dealers shop, so screen printing wouldn’t work.

  I forgot to mention, their quite large…1400mm x 850mm

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  Paul Franklin

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 09:57

  Can’t say for any certainty what would happen to the ‘clingyness’ using ecosol inks as we use an an edge. Size shouldn’t pose a problem though.

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  Stephen Morriss

  Member

  11 August 2006 at 10:02

  I use white cling and print on the window side with Uniform Actisol solvent inks, it still sticks the same even with full coverage but as I said the ink does attack it and it’ll curl up and wrinkle, even more so on the size your talking about doing, you could do a test print, the cling isn’t to expensive.
  I get mine from Victory, they have it in clear and white, Hexis also do one that I’ve heard good reports of.

  Steve

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  Peter Shaw

  Member

  15 August 2006 at 18:45

  We’ve had a disucssion about this before.

  I use Hexis static cling, printing on white, works a treat.

  Peter

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