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is there an opaque frosted white vinyl available?
Hi all,
I may have asked this question before, but I’ve still not found what I am looking for.
I did a job once working for my dad a couple of years ago in Birmingham. It was applying white opaque vinyl to a number of windows on a shop near a Rolls Royce showroom. The vinyl was white opaque, but when looked at closely it had a key difference. It had a kind of sparkle to it. I’ve looked at all the 3M samples I can find, and can’t find the same effect. If it were sandblasted glass, the places where the sand had hit the glass refracted light at different angles giving a kind of rainbow effect. It wasn’t anything flash, but up close the whole thing looked really good.
I did this job before I even considered doing signs and vinyl work myself, so I never thought to look at the back of the lining paper. The vinyl was supplied to us specifically for the job, all we did was turn up and fit it.
Does anyone have any idea what this vinyl was or know of something similar. It’s nothing like frosted sparkle, it looks just like an opaque white vinyl until up close when it refracts light a little.
Sorry if I’m confusing you all, I really want to know what it is and where I can get it. I use lot’s of white opaque vinyl and would like to use this a bit more as I think it looks better when it’s a panel with text cut out….
Many thanks
Adam
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9 Replies
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Hi Andy,
I am pretty sure you maybe talking about a dusted material which is a etch effect without the sparkles!
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I already have a type of dusted vinyl, but it just looks like standard opaque thats been attacked with silver spray paint! That’s not the effect I’m after.
Adam
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metamark do a "silver etch" film.
it is not really VERY silver, but does have a BIT of a glint when you look at it close up.
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Dorotape do ‘sparkly’ etch vinyl
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If you are talking a solid white with a sparkle through it and it was a few years back… could it not just be metallic white mate?
a few years back allot of cast vinyls had a metallic range… these days you don’t really see it and i think if it is available it may come under a speciality film, depending on the supplier.
we used to buy allot of metallic navy blue from spandex many moons ago… looked great on vehicles on a sunny day.
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Rob, it was definatly an opaque vinyl.
Michael, Metamark rings bells….is the website what I think it might be?
Thanks everyone.
Adam
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Aren’t Europoint doing a new range in Oracal metallic vinyls?????
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Adam, Ri-Mark do a very nice "Dusted Crystal" cast vinyl Supreme Range.
It’s very britle but gone on and looks the business.Glen
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Adam,
I think that the Avery White Pearlescent might be what you are looking for. It altmost looks like plain opaque vinyl but there is a shimmering pearl additive to it. Altmost like when you mix certain automotive paint bases and add pearlescent powders to it to give it a little sparkle.
A5826-S is the # for it. It is not brittle or fragile like the Etchmark kinds of films.
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