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    Posted by Marcella Ross on October 26, 2007 at 11:49 am

    I have 50 small signs to produce for a car sales forecourt, the type of sign you see on the window of the cars stating the mileage/mot/spec etc.
    Anyway customer wants them dry wipe so they can be reused. Now the last lot he had were all done on fluted display which obviously isn’t dry wipe. I previously bought some clear vinyl material before that was used on signs to make them dry wipe (it wasn’t just a laminate) but I can’t remember for the life of me what it was called or where I got it from!

    Is there a dry wipe type of board already out there that I can buy, obviously there must be for making drywipe boards, but does anyone know of a supplier? Or is fluted and a clear overlay a cheaper option?

    Marcella Ross replied 16 years, 7 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Tim Painter

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    Whiteboards are constructed with one of three material: the cheaper melamine resin, polyester coated steel and more expensive models made from porcelain…

    Apparently….

    I would of thought the way you are doing it is the cheapest way. MacTac do a clear vinyl Marcie.

    Tim.

  • Fred McLean

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Try Sahara Presentations,they do hand held and slightly larger melamine type boards.
    Mightn be cheaper/easier buying them in rather than covering something with a dry-wipe film 😕

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 12:39 pm

    thanks Fred. I was thinking more from a hassle point of view. If I could get away without covering in a film then thats quicker for me.
    I’ll give them a bell, thanks. 😀

  • Jon Marshall

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Hexis do a dry wipe film.

  • Russell Spencer

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    any polyester anti-graffiti film should work as a dry wipe, we use the one from Europoint for that very reason

    Robert Horne do a dry wipe sheet buts its only 0.8mm thick, requires bonding to something and is very brittle. But its cheap.

  • David Glen

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Marcella, I generally just flood coat panels with dry erase vinyl to make white boards.
    Works perfectly.

    http://www.metamark.co.uk/pages_sv/whiteboarMd.htm

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    October 26, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    cheers, David, just gave my Metamark rep a call.

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