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Can anyone suggest a supplier for UV Reactive vinyl?
Can anyone suggest a supplier or manufacturer for UV Reactive Vinyl? One of our clients has seen it in use and is asking for us to produce their decals using this.
I’ve searched the board but can’t find any related posts and have contacted our usual suppliers who are looking into it.
Any suggestions where else we could try?
Ta.
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Nobody got any ideas? We’re kinda struggling to find a supplier for this stuff.
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Hi,
No real answer – sorry 🙁
But, glow in the dark and day-glow vinyl does glow very nicely under UV – if thats of any help.
Mark
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just to tag on
Most suppliers can provide the above vinyls, I get mine from Hexis.
Mark
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yeah, we can get dayglo and glow-in-the-dark vinyl no problem.
maybe that’s what the current suppliers of these decals our client wants are using and they are just calling it ‘UV Reactive’
I was assuming they were using a vinyl specifically designed to react to the UV rather than something like dayglo if you see what i mean.
time to test some of the vinyls we already have in stock ;p
ta!
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There is a reflective product on the market that lights up like a christmas tree, it wouldn’t look much during the day, but at night it’d stand out really well. A gent a while ago did his own van in it (its in the Show Us Your Stuff forum somewhere) and it looked really good.
Imagine the Fast N Furious style decal thingies done in that stuff.. it’d look like your car was on fire!! :lol1: Albiet white fire 😕
Cheers, Dewi
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yup, the white reflective is top of the list to test just now – mostly cos i know where it is, not seen the dayglo stuff for a while.
we got white reflective on one of our demo cars, looks great at night when lights hit it.
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Hi, the only thing I know of is this stuff
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/exposu … odinfo.htm
they have a UK distributor which is chromepaint.com. Although the stuff isnt on the website, they can get it for you.
Danny
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ye KPMF does lun…er….luu…er….stuff that glows in the dark 2 versions
Regards Brian
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Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve still not managed to track down anyone who can supply [or has even heard of] vinyl made specifically to react to uv light.
Have tried all our swatch books under the uv lights but none glow like our competitors products.
Our client has ordered one of these UV Reactive graphics from the States so we’ll see what turns up.
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Are you sure its not the stuff that 3M do
Kind of holographic? depending on the angle you look you see different colours?
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Nope, it’s not the holographic stuff – we have rainbow silver in stock.
I’ll try and explain the effect you’re supposed to get off it better. It’s like the electro luminescent glow you get off car some dials and watches:
http://www.nomadracing.com/catalog/popup_image.php?pID=229
Bit like the thing on the link. Other example would be the way white glows under a UV/black light
We gave our client a swatchbook to test under their lights – the dayglow stuff had a slight glow effect but is too garish during the day for what they need to use it for.
We have ordered one of these things off a competitor in the States for a closer look – hopefully get a manufacturer name on the backing paper ;p
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got me looking & thinking try this.
http://www.uvgear.co.uk/product/uvpaints.htm
spray some vinyl
chris
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yeah, the UV paint was the next thing on my list of possibilities. Wasn’t sure where to get it from though – you’ve saved me asking!
Thanks.
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