help please applying tint to car windows

[Peter Normington]

Steph
not quite sure how you would do that in tint, for a start you would need to reverse cut and apply all the individual parts before the background, but if you layered it the tints would alter the colour of the layers in front, so you would need to knock out the text etc from the background, then you could lay the background first and insert the parts, but unless the window was flat, think you would have problems with registration.
I think you may have been given a problem that will be difficult or impossible to do….

By the way what program makes it easier?

Peter

[Stephanie Peterson]

Hello Peter thanks for the reply I knew this would be a difficult if not impossible thing to do I just thought I would ask just in case there was an easy way of doing it. Thanks for the information though sounds like it might work as his window is pretty flat. Will have to give it a try I guess and see what happens.

Oh well the program that makes it easier is Film Designs Advanced Cutting System. You just pick the make, model and year all that kind of information and it has all the windows and shapes all ready to go. It just makes it easier because our guy use to just do it all by hand where as now I can just have it all cut out and ready for him first thing. Plus we wanted to try this sort of custom work if it works anyway, its working great for just normal tinting though to bad it is such an expensive program.

[Stuart Miller]

Hi Steph
I do a small amount of graphics in tint and find the two choices are to either
1- do the graphics, lettering etc direct onto the window each colour seperately then cover whole design with final layer of tint preshrunk .
or
2-Make up design on peeling board by adding the layers of tint onto the final covering layer.

I’ve done things both ways
1- you get a cleaner install with no contamination but is slow as each layer has to be left to stick well before glass is cleaned for next layer. Small graphics and details might not stick well, may move and if they are large may have to be preshrunk also. The size of the lettering and graphics in your proof it looks as if only the covering tint would need shrinking.
2- This way means the liner is peeled and the design is placed on dry to the covering tint with its own liner which works well and small pieces stick well but danger of more contamination as the tint is exposed and dust can get onto the design liner when weeding. Hard to line up and registrate this way.

I’d probably try it by method 1 in this instance. The only problems would be the small pieces in the bee graphic.
Importance is placed on original design to keep it simple and avoid small pieces.
Hope this helps but a better place to get advice than this forum would probably be
http://www.tintdude.com
and one of the guys who seems to do a lot of this is in Southampton called Shady. His website is
http://www.window-tinting.co.uk

cheers
Stuart

[Stephanie Peterson]

Thanks for all the information callwild! I really appreciate it, will follow your advice as well as post at that tint site thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully I can finish this project now.