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Hand print sign advice needed, please?
Hi folks,
Had a bit of a different request from a customer.They are a nursing home & are having a hand hygiene awareness week. They would like some sort of a substrate & ink/paint, that they can use as the week goes by for each of the staff on duty to dip their hands in the ink/paint & put their hand print on the substrate. They will then sign their print & at the end of the week they want to frame & cover/protect the sign & keep it.
A part of the sign may be printed or have cut vinyl lettering as a heading.
So I’m just looking for any advice on what may be the best way to tackle it.
I wondered about a digital canvas or composite aluminium & then poster paints? But then what sort of frame & how to protect it? Whatever paint/ink is used obviously needs to be easily removed from hands.
Oh, & the other thing is it needs to be approved & ready to go for 5th May!! 😮
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Myles find out what the police use for fingerprints and use that.
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Thanks Simon, good thinking but they wanted a bit of colour in it maybe 2 or 3 different colours.
It does have the danger of looking like a nursery school thing though, but that’s what they had in mind.
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Can you get some sort of paper that reacts to heat, and then stays like that permanently?
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/hea … paper.html
Don’t know if the hand print stays there though.
Liam
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You want a water based paint really not just from a cleaning off perspective but a health & safety point as well so poster paints would probably work, overlaminate when done & put in a snap frame would probably be the way I would go.
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quote Liam Pattison:Can you get some sort of paper that reacts to heat, and then stays like that permanently?
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/hea … paper.html
Don’t know if the hand print stays there though.
Liam
Nice idea Liam, but I think the way it works means that it only changes for a short time & then changes back as the temperature falls. If the image could be set or held somehow it would be perfect.
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quote Martin Pearson:You want a water based paint really not just from a cleaning off perspective but a health & safety point as well so poster paints would probably work, overlaminate when done & put in a snap frame would probably be the way I would go.
Yes I think your right Martin on the water based paint, & from an ease of use point too.
I Think a snap frame may be a little too small as there are 20 – 30 hands to go on it which by my very quick calculations would mean a panel at least 6ft x 4ft, So maybe an iSign frame or similar.
& I’m still thinking the hand prints directly onto composite then which presumably would take the laminate ok when the week is over?
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I would try an experiment yourself Myles before going ahead with the composite, paint is just going to sit on the surface & may come off far to easily while the actual hand prints are being applied or when your laminating it. Paper canvas or something along those lines is going to absorb a certain amount of paint which may work out better for you.
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Think your right Martin, & as luck would have it, I happen to have a small bottle of poster paint here 😀 Has glitter in it, but should work for testing purposes anyway.
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I personally would do as Martin suggested but get the clients to place their hand on the backside of the PETG snap frame protective cover Using acrylic water based paints let air dry and if you need to remove as its water based and just bend PETG its will loosen up not quite crack loads but enough to remove it would be easy. obviously the prints would be reversed but only hands so don’t matter also the PETG front side would give a nice pro glossy finish.
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If you want it to outlast the residents 😉 (!) ,
Print the hands onto a good white surface, and photograph the result.
Then print the photograph onto your favourite vinyl and laminate it onto something.Simon.
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Simon
Post Author: Simon Worrall » Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:57 am
Re: Hand print sign advice needed
If you want it to outlast the residents 😉 (!) ,
Print the hands onto a good white surface, and photograph the result.
Then print the photograph onto your favourite vinyl and laminate it onto something.Simon.
Exactly what I was about to reply.
Lorraine
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