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Help Window Frosting With Colour???
I have a customer looking to get some window frosting done.
She’s asked that we add some ‘colour’ to it.
It is for a beauty salon, and are looking for the frosting to cover the lower part of the window, so passers by cannot see the back of staff.
Initially they wanted solid window frosting with a few key words cut out. Now they want colour adding.
Is there a printable ‘frost’ vinyl.
Personally I would use a nice etch, and stuff the colour idea.
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9 Replies
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Why not use an etch with a colour tint or translucent vinyl.
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there are a few suppliers that now offer colour tinted glass etch, mactac, 3m, oracal… those come to mind but ide assume that a good few now offer this as its been on the market a few years.
you can also buy digital glass etch. i havent tried it bvut know a rep has recently told me this. which i dont know, but ide guess Wm Smiths or Robert Horne, as both have been in a few times in the past few months.
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Metamark do a printable frosted window vinyl. Used it a few times to good effect.
Only piece of advice is to avoid using any heavily saturated printed colours on the very edges as it can cause edge curl after being applied to the window.
What about applying some coloured cut vinyl to the inside of the frosting – logos or stripes /pattern. This will appear as normal to the outside.
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I might look into that idea.
Create a nice coloured vinyl job, then apply the frosting behind it.
I need to get my creative juices flowing.
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Apply the frosting first, then apply the vinyl to the back of the frosting. It will appear as normal through the frosting and you wont get any ghosting around the cut vinyl.
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Had (yet another) off cut of Metamarks digital frost.
Enough to cover the bottom half of the shop door.
I printed a library image of some colour squares with water drops.
It looks awesome from inside, whilst outside it’s dark, and it looks just like some blocks of colour. 😕
I know my client want’s it to have visual impact to the passing traffic, so it might not be the way to go?
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I have a similar job up, a frosted window with a full colour logo in the middle, inside facing out.
I’m going to try reverse print on clear and back with frost and hope the frost will take the place of the white. Need to run a few tests to how it turns out.
How did you end up doing yours?
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It’s still up in the air as the customer keeps changing their mind.
They might just be going for black vinyl and frosting. So will apply the frosting then stick some matt black on the reverse.
I’m not 100% happy with the test I did on our window.
It looks ace from inside, but from the road it looks dark and you don’t really see the full effect.
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quote Mo Gillis-Coates:I have a similar job up, a frosted window with a full colour logo in the middle, inside facing out.I’m going to try reverse print on clear and back with frost and hope the frost will take the place of the white. Need to run a few tests to how it turns out.
How did you end up doing yours?
Mo,
That technique works perfectly. I laminate the frost onto the clear in the shop, and applies all in one go on site.
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