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designer requested printed images to have transparency?
Hi all, I am doing up some clear acrylic wall signs on standoffs for a customer’s boardroom & have been supplied with images by a designer to reverse print & fit on the back of the acrylic. Straight forward enough. But they have stipulated that it’s important that the final images have "transparency" & suggest a couple of test prints be done & sent to them for approval first (no problem doing that) but what exactly do they mean by transparency? Would they simply mean printing the images onto a clear vinyl? Or is there more to it than that? The images supplied don’t appear to have transparency to them. They are single colour channel images. Would I need to adjust ink levels for this sort of thing?
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Sharing the design might help.
Transparency to me means-not backed with white. -
quote Pane Talev:Sharing the design might help.
Transparency to me means-not backed with white.Sorry Pane, indeed you’re right :blushing:
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I would be thinking exactly the same thing as you. Why don’t you go back to them and ask exactly what they mean? If they simply mean to print on a clear background do they realise how washed out the images will look?
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quote Phill Fenton:I would be thinking exactly the same thing as you. Why don’t you go back to them and ask exactly what they mean? If they simply mean to print on a clear background do they realise how washed out the images will look?
Yes I’ll be asking in the morning, just wanted to check & see if it was some special designer/printer thing & being new into the world of digital print I thought I’d better just check first rather than looking stoopid 😉
They are a brand design company so I presume they know what they’re at & have done similar things before, but you never know do you.
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Perhaps these will be getting fitted onto a white wall – in which case the images may not appear to be washed out after all? I really don’t know, but I am interested to know the outcome.
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Yes the wall is white so guess it should be OK. Not sure what the purpose of the transparency is really then? Seems a bit pointless.
I guess the tests will just be to see what degree they want. -
Perhaps they are thinking of shining lights at the wall behind it.
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If fitted with stand offs, I can’t see the wall giving a solid white, it depends what effect they’re looking to achieve.
When you do the samples try doing multiple passes to get a more dense ink coverage.
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