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Panels too large to press!
We’ve been asked to print some cafe screen barriers which the client wants black canvas with a white image. It would be acrylic canvas, the type used for awnings and canopies.
They’re too big for the garment press and we don’t have curing facilities to screenprint them.
I was thinking of cutting white garment vinyl and using an iron to press them on. Possibly even putting them through the heated rollers on the laminating press as well.
I’ve had a test piece of this fixed to a railing outside since July 2010 and I’m 90% happy that it has worked.
Just wondering if anyone has any advice on this and what vinyl would be most suitable.
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6 Replies
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Make a vinyl stencil and paint on screen printing ink.
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Did some draped table cloths for AGM logo was 600 wide pressed them in the heat press in 2 presses
Kev
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quote Martin Oxenham:Make a vinyl stencil and paint on screen printing ink.obviously I’ve not seen the texture of the canvas mate, but I’m not sure if that would work Martin.
I doubt the stencil vinyl will stick well to the canvas even if it did, the ink would probably bleed under the edges of the stencil?
as i say, not seen it so as long as the canvas took to the stencil then yeh, it should work.heat press will stick using an iron. when our old heat-press, "many years ago now", broke, we would press our logo on our own "staff" t-shirts with an iron-on front and back. worked perfectly well.
however…
with an iron the heat "setting" is very difficult to get right.
you are also restricted on the area covered in one go, so lines may appear where you "tile" your heat on the graphic.
you also have to have some form of timer for holding an iron in place before it will burn or not give enough heat.or as kev says, heat press in tiles maybe better…
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Last year I had to print two banners , 7mtrs x 1.5mtrs. White text and logo onto Royal Blue cloth. I did it using my Heat Press. The text stayed in one piece and the logo I cut into tiles the size of the press. To keep the image square I marked it all out with tailors chalk and pressed it from left to right. Needed three pairs of hands but , as Rob said, its possible to do it this way.
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If it were me and I was only 90% happy with something then I wouldn’t go ahead and do it, reputations are very hard to build and very easy to lose. Might be best to look for a trade supplier who can do what you want, take a smaller profit from the job but sleep at night knowing there won’t be any problems.
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Thanks for the advice guys.
I think we’ll try to fit it into the heat press in sections and see how we get on.
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