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Anybody Tried Flood Coating Static Cling?
I quite often use cut vinyl lettering on Static Cling for shop windows. I find it gives much stronger colours than printing and is something I can do quickly in house without sending off for prints.
However I need to give some block colour to a window sign and wonder if anybody has tried flood coating static cling.
I have tried a small 500mm sample which seemed to work OK and stuck to the window fine.
In the past people have mentioned the cling ruckling after a while due to the cut vinyl and Cling vinyl stretching different amounts when using letters but I have actually had good results so far without this happening when using Metamark M& and Metamark Cling.Also thinking if the whole sheet of static cling is flooded then there wouldn’t be two different thicknesses so whole lot should shrink & stretch together.
I am doing this for two reasons i) the shop windows already have expensive window film on which could be damaged if vinyl laid on top (rather the film would be scratched if vinyl was removed) and ii) an outside application is innappropriate.
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4 Replies
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Hi Stuart
I reverse print on static cling and back it in white quite alot
for one of my customers and never had any problemsso i personally think it would be fine
Robert
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Same as you Stuart, tend to do it in house with cut vinyl as sending it out to get printed worked out a bit to expensive unless you were doing lots at a time. Flood coated a lot of smaller sized bits normally over the top of reverse cut text or graphics and never had a problem but I must admit I have never tried it with a whole window, have done strips about 200mm high and nearly 2 metres in length that stayed up OK
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Wouldn’t you have problems with static cling and window film anyway? Whenever we have tried this the cling tends to drop off?
We normally print onto the white cling.
Regards
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quote Jason Davies:Wouldn’t you have problems with static cling and window film anyway? Whenever we have tried this the cling tends to drop off?We normally print onto the white cling.
Regards
JasonNo I’ve never noticed a problem with static cling normally on window film.
Also I have now installed the signs with static cling backed up with white text and navy flood coating and that too seems to be sticking well to the filmed windows.
thanks for all the replies.
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