has anyone tried printing onto static cling?

[Rebecca]

Hi John

We run static cling through our JV3 using the shiraz rip, if the print needs a white backup we screen print it on.

Rebecca

[John Cornfield]

Ever tried a white static cling i am sure metamark do one.

[Robert Lambie]

profile swapping for uksg members sounds good mate. i can add a forum in members area for this once we ahve a few requests or offers. good idea too 😉

anyone printing onto cloth using a solvent printer.. same as john, by grenadeir? im guessing the customer means tyvec or something but thats the request so far.. 🙄

[buffnutt]

high ive printed onto static cling in white, the only problem was the size it was only available in 650mm by 1000mm dont now if this is any good to you,,,, :lol1:

[John Cornfield]

Cheers Buffnut, what printer and rip was this on and what profile did you use?

[Rodney Gold]

You can do cloth , however its via a sublimation process. The problem with cloth is that it has no liner , so the inks soak thru. We have tried a sort of satin / silk stuff with a liner , works quite well but it was horrendously expensive.
We print on mesh for inside window stuff , its way cheaper than contravision but has no sticky side , it needs to be adhered inside windows , but is amazing stuff – you cant see in at all and it looks like there is nothing on the windows looking out. We use clear VHB tapes on the inside of the windows to secure it (tape is a 3m product). We actually laminate contravision with clear when we do have to use it , this stops damage to the print and stops the rain etc blocking the holes. It’s no quite as see thru if unlammed , but its way better in the rain (where the see thru vision REALLY counts)
I do roll up blinds and vertical louvre blinds with the mesh. Nice thing is that it prints real fast (300 sq ft an hour) and is very cheap , something like Gbp 1.50 per sq meter. It also hangs nicely without curling. Our old premises has 20 liner meters x 2.5m main street window frontage , and when we moved (we still have the old premises) we hung these meshes inside the window with huge arrows pointing round the corner where we moved and graphics depicting all our products. so far , in full sun etc , they havent faded. We have all the light transmission thru the stuff and can have a naked orgy inside the old place without any passers bye seeing a thing:)
As to profiles ,they are not that critical to get the exact one. The biggest factor is ink loading , IE you need to load the material till just before the ink puddles or runs , normally using any generic profile for your media works if you just test the loading and limit it. There are a lot of other settings with profiles , like dot size ,etc etc but the only other one you really have to bother with is feed calibration (and maybe total inkload at black cutoff point)

[Rebecca]

The only trouble if you use a white static cling for applying to the inside of the window is you lose the amount of area you have to cling to the window as it is reduced where the print is. At least with clear, printed in reverse with a white back up is you still have the full amount of the back of the cling for applying to the window.

We had some larger sheets of cling from A&P Display, I think the size was 1.5metre x 1metre.

Rebecca

[buffnutt]

we printed basically the whole width of the static cling and it stuck no problem it was printed on a cadet,and printed under the uniform gloss 3-5 profile not buy us but buy another local company i supervised as it was being done