A Problem kinda sort of???

[John Childs]

Forbie…

I wouldn’t do it. 😀

Laying up multiple colours causes headaches whilst fitting because of the air line that gets formed when spatulaing (is that a word?) over where the colours meet. That is to say where it goes from one thickness to two. We get a neater job by laying the colours down on the job, sign or van, one at a time.

The only exceptions are:-

1. Where the colours don’t overlap.
2. When the customer is fitting the deals himself and he isn’t capable of lining up the separate colours. In this case we always go to great lengths to explain the problems to them, partly so that there are no comebacks and partly to impress on them that the charge for our highly trained fitters is worth the money.

[Dave Bruce]

Forbie I agree with John, I always tried to leave separate layers even for the novice to line up unless they really insisted.
Where are you in Scotland if I am any where near I’ll drop in to help. In Glasgow next couple of days.

Cheers

Dave

[Henry Barker]

Goop,

If I was doing this…I would first use transparent application tape as we do 99% of the time.

Applying the oval form after weeding I would leave the weed border intact put on the application tape, mark the left or right vertical side with a stabilo and then the bottom horizontal I now have a marked 90 degree angle when applying to the substrate, i just measure a height from the bottom and one side and know I have it straight, at the same time I cut out a couple of squares at the top left and right side if the eclipse is about 60cm wide I make the squares about 2cm x 2cm and the same on the text, then place the squares over each other knowing its perfectly centred, and apply job done and I only had to mark 2 points on the vehicle or substrate which I normally do in the software before leaving to do the job…..use a little more vinyl but save loads of time and works well everytime 🙂

Like John I would do layer for layer when doing the job.

[Joe McNamara]

I think i only ever tried to do this once….and that was enough.
As someone else has said you’ll get nasty sections of air where both colours meet.
If you use clear tape as Henry said, that’ll do it or use alignment bars or registration marks to line it all up and thatll speed the process up.
You can even put the bottom layer on the van dry then use a slightly soapy solution or app fluid to “float” the top layer into position.
I’m working on a demo at the moment for speeding up your van applications and it’ll cover colour registrations as well.
Last week popped in to a commercial van dealer to fit a transit – and with the prepped kit, fitted the transit, 2 colour, in 55 mins.
I’ll probably have the demo sorted by next week and send it on to Rob.
Cheers
Signjoe

[Martin Pearson]

Like the others have said I avoid doing this if I can help it, I find it is far better to do it all on site and with a bit of practice you will do it really quickly, hurry up with that demo Joe it sounds interesting.

[Gordon Forbes]

Bit far away I’m afraid Dave thanks for the offer anyway.

I have decided that I will do the seperate colours on the job as on the face of it I wont save much time anyway just cause myself more grief.

Henry I made 2 L shaped registration marks either side of the oval with all colours involved and am using clear registration tape.

Seems like I was trying to run before I could walk.

Thanks for the Info, help and advice.

Goop.