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  • Help sourcing Silver reflective vinyl please?

    Posted by David Mitchell on October 26, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Have a customer requesting silver reflective vinyl for the rear of his van, I normally use mdp but the only.do white.

    Vic Adair replied 9 years, 6 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    October 26, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    i could be wrong, but i do not think you can buy a silver reflective.
    Even white is an off white / light grey reflective due to how its manufactured.
    most companies supply black, white and four primary colours.

    however, Oracal / Reflexite have the largest range of reflective i know of. i think they do about 18 reflective colours, more over, their new reflectives come with ghost emblems on the vinyl surface to prove the quality of the media where required. something i think should be compulsory. with the aid of a hot air gun, their reflective is also easily removable from the vehicle when required. something i have found nearly impossible with most other brands.
    They also have a digital print range of reflective and also do a range of conspicuity reflective.

  • David Mitchell

    Member
    October 27, 2014 at 8:09 am

    thanks robert, that was all i could find and what i told him , i.e its white but its kind of silvery, but apparently a local guy done his friends van with it, so hes off there.

    you win some you lose some.

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    October 27, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    I sell a lot of white reflective and the number of people who ring me asking for silver is unreal, even when I explain it is white as we don’t sell a silver!

    the only way you could do silver is to overprint white but, it will be a flat silver grey, not metallic.

  • Alan Williams

    Member
    October 27, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    Hi

    You can get Silver reflective vinyl from
    IG supplies

    0121 786 2288

    http://www.igsupplies.co.uk

    They can send you a sample or photos of the vinyl

  • Stuart Miller

    Member
    October 27, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Do they mean night time light reflective or Silver Mirror vinyl which is be definition also reflective.
    We have to distinguish between the two all the time.

  • Vic Adair

    Member
    October 29, 2014 at 10:44 am

    Silver metallic, Silver mirror and even Oracals Black reflective ( at an angle) can all be mistaken, by some, as a silver reflective as they are all reflecting light at some degree

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