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    Posted by Warren Beard on 2 March 2009 at 10:01

    Hi All

    I have no experience in light boxes (internal boxes) and my customer has advised me that some of their in store light box graphics come mounted on a 3mm acrylic. Normally I just supply the printed graphic which goes between 2 panels so am not sure if there is a sticky back back lit media that can be laminated to 3mm acrylic.

    does anybody know what I am talking about and shed some light on this?

    cheers

    Warren

    Ross Couchman replied 16 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Gary Birch

    Member
    2 March 2009 at 11:21

    Warren
    Metamark have a backlit self adhesive vinyl in there range. Prints pretty well too.

    Cheers

    Gary

  • Andrew Fleming

    Member
    2 March 2009 at 13:05

    If the Acrylic is translucent white then just print onto clear vinyl, you will prob have to do a double pass to give the colours depth, as a single pass looks washed out.

  • Warren Beard

    Member
    2 March 2009 at 16:39

    Thanks guys, I just found out it is Opal Duratran on 3mm acrylic, does this come with sticky back?

    cheers

    Warren

  • Ross Couchman

    Member
    9 March 2009 at 11:38

    This will not necessarily have a sticky back and sounds like a standard Duratrans print. This can simply be face mounted to your opal acrylic panel and wherever you are having it printed should be able to to do this for you. The other option if the print is going to be fairly permanent is to have the print done direct to the opal acrylic on a flatbed UV machine.

  • Warren Beard

    Member
    9 March 2009 at 11:45

    Thanks Ross, I was told by the printer that it does come with a sticky back. I will be mounting on to the acrylic myself so how would it be done if it does not have an adhesive back?

    cheers

    Warren

  • Ross Couchman

    Member
    9 March 2009 at 12:17

    we normally just use use a standard cold mount adhesive

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