has anyone tried printing on clear with cadet yet?

[Alan Cooper]

Haven’t done that, but we’ve done a couple of jobs recently, printing a series of images in mirror onto clear to be used as a window picture frame. The customer was looking a bit sceptical as we were fitting the very transparent images onto the glass but everything came to life when we backed the prints up with white vinyl. The job looked great when finished.
Although we don’t screen print any more, I would have thought that the solvent inks in the cadet would be compatible with a screenprint white solvent ink used as a flood coat.

Alan

[Chris Wool]

becky i have often thought this is the way to do it but never had the kit to screen – i have sprayed with different paints no affect to the print but to messy so gone back to covering with white vinyl this also makes them easier for the customer to handle .

chris

[Glenn Sharp]

Becky,

We tried it a couple of years ago using the Grenadier onto window cling (staticky stuff) – we didn’t get very good results but I can’t remember exactly why.

I seem to remember that the screen printed white wasn’t dense enough to make the Grenadier print look vivid enough – we only have 90T meshes here so I don’t know what it would look like through a 60

I don’t recall any issues with the inks reacting & we would have used Sericols poly plast

[David Rowland]

interesting.. something we have spoke about but not tried yet. Thing is.. do you print onto sheets or a proper digital vinyl roll?

my immediete thoughts that polyplast should work as it works with standard vinyl

[Nicola McIntosh]

yes i have just done a run of 1000 stickers on clear and ed printed a white flood it worked perfectly 😀

nik

[Kevin.Beck]

Dave – we would be printing onto proper digital vinyl.

Nicoless – Did you slice them after the flood coat?
I`m thinking, to contour cut them on the cadet, then flood and hopefully weed after the flood coat had gone tacky etc.

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote becky:

I`m thinking, to contour cut them on the cadet, then flood and hopefully weed after the flood coat had gone tacky etc.

thats what i was going to do….but i printed 20 up cut into 2 then ed screened them 10 up, then he guillotined them 😀
i got a fab print too on the clear 😀

nik

[Kevin.Beck]

quote :

Nicoless – Did you

did you miss that, I was expecting a rocket 😉

thanks for the info.

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote becky:

quote :

Nicoless – Did you

did you miss that, I was expecting a rocket 😉

ha-ha just saw it…..let you off its friday 😉

nik