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black vynil on windows with etched background
Did a special offer board on white correx with black text stuck on inside of window for a take away a while back
customer wants the writing stuck on the inside direct this time.
Told him I’ll have to put white vinyl behind the letters so they are legible and he asked if light will get through?
So now I’m thinking of using etched or dusted as a background.
Will black letters with etched behind read ok do you think, anyone?
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I did Royal blue with etch over in a deli window
Created a great effect!!!
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Generally it’ll be fine so long as light can shine through…even a little bit to create the contrast.
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we do quite a bit of dark grey vinyl backed up with frosted…..it works well
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Cheers.
Its during the day I’m worried about when the inside is darker than the outside.
Some of those semi-transparent films are almost invisible without any light behind them.
I guess it trial and error.
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does it have to be black James……can you not go with white direct on?
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Did that before for him Glenn and it wasn’t that clear under most conditions.
Its 2 1/2 inch lettering listing some special offers.
Its not like a car window where white always shows, day or night.
Before sundown it’s quite dark inside and after dark very bright and with the drinks refrigerator almost directly behind with a huge Vimto graphic on the side, it breaks the legibility of the window lettering up, hence the reason for applying something solid behind the lettering so you can make out all the letters at the same time without changing viewing angle as you read.
I’m just realizing its harder to judge the difference of effect of window graphics by day and night and then there’s the different levels of transparency across the range of etched, dusted, frosted and so on to consider.
Some look like clear sticky tape without a back light. and wouldn’t hold up the black lettering during the day when the shop lights weren’t on.
Its not even a big job, and it’s local so I’ll just experiment with it until I know what I’m talking about.
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Why not sell him some wire/acrylic systems or a cold cathode box
Neat, tidy and a bit of profit and a sense of caring about his company image….worth a look
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They will read fine, did this today.
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Nice one Warren.
What kind of film did you use?
This is metemark series4 (etched I think, I bought it a while back)
Probably not the right look for a short term special offer but we wanted to see what it would look like?
How did you get that picture up it wont let me embed?
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Hi James
I use Oracal window etch (8510), never used any others but find this really nice and always applied dry too 😉
pm’ed you.
cheers
Warren
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