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Coloured tansparant vinyl but non see tru
I have been contacted by an Interior agency, the wanted me to do complete interior for a dentist. Lot’s of glass panels that the wanted to be covered by a lemon green vinyl, but this vinyl may not block out light, and might also not been a see tru vinyl.
I was thinking about applying first a etch vinyl on the glass surface, who doesn’t look milky or metallic and then apply the coloured transparant vinyl onto it.
Does anyone knows vinyls that do not block out light, but are coloured, and if so a lemon green colour in their range 🙂
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Tim, have a look at the Hexis range C4000 transparent.
http://www.hexis.co.uk/Hexis/Colour_Cards.html#12
John
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John,
This vinyl is transparent, I am looking for a coloured vinyl that does not block out light, but must hide from viewing…
It has to have the same aspect like an etch, but has to be lime green…
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Print directly on to etch.
Jihn
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as john suggests, you could print directly to digital etch.
i recon what they are after is a polyester purpose made window film.
i forget the name of it but i used it covering a huge glass wall in an expensive "TOILET" 😕 :lol1: seriously though, they had particianed a big toilet with a glass wall. they wanted the day light from one room to light the whole toilet in the next room. obviously they dont want you to see into the toilet so it was flood coated in a solid white window film which allowed the light to pass thru to the toilet.i am sure we bought it from Bonwyke Films.
http://www.bonwyke.co.uk/there are a list of other window film suppliers of similar listed on Signapp and the UKSB toolbar.
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Oracal 8500 lime tree green would do it.
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Maybe I’m confused but it sounds like you need translucent vinyl and not transparent vinyl. Translucent looks like coloured etch or am I missing something?
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yeh your right warren, the polyester films i mentioned above are just that, translucent.
how much/little light they allow to penetrate the film i think is the key. which is why the proper window films are more expensive and application technique is totally different. -
Translucent Vinyl
Ritrama do a translucent series, but from memory thry only have light / green / dark green colours.
We used TRL670 (CT20) on a small window awhile back (found out the work sheet!, its ‘green’)
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Thanks for the advice everyone!
The problem with translucent vinyl is that it really blocks light. The clients wants a vinyl that does not block any kind of light, but it must be a bright lemon colour…
When printing direct onto etch I do think that you won’t get a bright colour finish, or certainly not the intensity.
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quote Tim de Beir:When printing direct onto etch I do think that you won’t get a bright colour finish, or certainly not the intensity.
i would tend to agree with you there mate, i think print to etch has a washed out look to it and often best results are with dark colours.
the polyester films i mention i still think its what you should be looking at.
some years back now i used to manufactuered stained glass windows in large volume using pretty much the same polyester films. many where colour tint transparent, but also lots of solid colours. the proper films where expensive, and from memory the film had ten layers. several of these layers where UV filters to prevent the UV light from bleaching the colour out.
they also had a high gloss finish.
regular translucent will have a UV stabiliser in them, but i doubt anything like this. translucent also has a semi matt finish to it too.a demo i did in the past showing a stined glass window using this film.
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=17583.
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I’ve done something similar in the past using white matte film and then applied a coloured decorative film onto that to good effect.
The white matte is a translucent film allowing approx 70% of light in but still offering total privacy, all you can see is an outline if there is a strong light behind anything close to the window the film has been applied to.
As Rob said earlier, speak to the guys at Bonwyke, they should be able to help you.
Bob
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