Painted Banners

[Robert Lambie]

hi vivid..
why not just cut the stuff in cheap vinyl but weed the letters away so you are left with a stencil type thing. apply it to the banner and paint/roller in the letters.. then peel away the vinyl and your left with painted letters!

oops.. you must use ink though not paint. paint will crack/chip.

is there a reason your not using banner vinyl? just cut it and apply as normal. 🙄

[Tim Painter]

OK where do I get INK ?

[Robert Lambie]

well i normaly go to sericol but i dont think its the cheapest.
they have branches all over and im sure they will have a website.
its the same stuff screen printers use.. i bought a few cans.. primary colours black and whit and a can of ink thinner. lasts for years as you hardly use anthing..

sericol is not the cheapest like i say.. maybe ask some of the screen printers of other sources.

sorry i cant be of more help mate.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Hi Tim.
Rob is 100% right about paint cracking when removing the mask.
But be careful about using ink cuz i have heard nightmare tales
about it not drying for days. I am assuming this is a vinyl banner?
Do you have a projector? It might be an option to project & sketch.
Or (taught to me by my Scots friend Catherine) make a paper
pattern…either hand-done or computer…trace the back of this with
a Stablio pencil. Slightly dampen the banner & press the pattern over it…
it makes a transfer that even a real ameteur can fill in. And it is so cheap.
A lot less messy than pouncing and no black snot afterwards!
Time consuming…yes! But the knowledge you gain is completely worth the effort.
I’d do it for ya, buddy, but I’m too far away.
Love- JILL

[Robert Lambie]

jill i have heard that too about the drying time. not sure if its a certain type of ink though.
it normaly only takes a few mins for my ink to dry.. if spraying it, it can be almost dry in seconds.
one time though one of our guys was asked to mix some light blue.. he used primary blue and wiht into a seperate can. i painted in the banner and left to dry.. couple of days later it was still tacky?
i asked him to get me the tins he used.. guess what? one was blue ink the other white gloss.. 😮 what a clown.. both tins are kept in seperate places. old story.. “want it don right.?. then do it….” 😆

[Nigel Fraser]

I did a few of these as Rob says using a vinyl stencil (just economy Mactac which comes off cleanly).
I used Cherwell Sign Supplies 01280 840297 – they do a range of inks specially for this and curtainsiders.

Nigel

[Nicola McIntosh]

i often get asked to paint banners (customers preference) large amounts i screenprint, one offs will paint, for speed as rob mentioned used cut out vinyl, have done so for years, but this one time the vinyl glue stuck to banner after it had dried. was left to air dry! could it have been the ink being too strong for the vinyl? any suggestions?

Nicola

[Robert Lambie]

hi nic
sometimes i found glue being left when i had too much thinner in the ink.
like nigel i use the cheap temp vinyl “spray mask” it doesnt have much glue to begin with & costs pennies to buy in. europoint sell it.
the ink tends to start to dry in minutes so when it does i start to peel off the vinyl then leave it to dry right out… 😉

[Nicola McIntosh]

cheers rob

i always used the vinyl i had in stock. did not know about spray mask 😮 😮 i tend to thin ink down for the first coat depending on the colour of banner, will take note for future use!!

thanks Nicola