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Paper & Laminate for ‘Wallpaper’
…a friend has asked me if I can do them a nice big mural for one of their walls at home (freeish of course). Now I’ve got my HP5000UV up & running but what I need some wise advice on is a suitable paper to print on with a view to probably using a liquid laminate to protect it.
Has anyone tried something like this before?
I’m currently playing about & have some quite heavyish nice Matt Photopaper which I feel would give a good picture but having no experience of liquid laminates I’m wondering if this is the right (short term) route and if it would be durable in this use?
The final plan is to get the Mutoh solvent up & going (I’m struggling to get the Mutoh 6100/Rockhopper solvent thingy to stop giving me horrible Carriage encoder error – ‘E070 Error Y Encoder’ error & actually start working….) & use proper wallpaper sustrate for this but in the meantime can anyone help with a few pointers?
Ta,
J
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Thanks, I’ll check that out when I get home from work (security on this server won’t let me access).
I had actually given up trying to find a substrate for the HP UV.
Ta,
J
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i think Hexis is the distributor of about 5-6 version of wall paper for solvents… i remember getting samples as it is an american product..some nice samples
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the standard wall paper that you would paint after putting up works well with solvent and pigmented. dye inks not really up to the job.
the pattern in the paper also gives a nice effect. as the ink gets right in to the paper no need to laminate it will damage just like wall paper does if you knock itor what they call blue back paper
chris
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Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions but no luck unfortunately.
Checked out Hexis & a the Flex European guys, both were very helpful but the consensus is that the HP UV inks won’t work correctly because they aren’t ‘true’ UV inks & are really just UV resistant pigment stuff.
Chris, had a wander about B&Q & Homebase at the weekend. Was it the Graham & Brown stuff you were meaning? Maybe being vinyl it’ll be the same story as the special stuff but it could be worth a go.
Thanks,
J
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i cant put my hand on the stock at the moment but i was called backing paper and some blown vinyl wall paper only £1.50 a roll not a fortune to try. as far as i remember it was only the bathroon papers it didnt like.
chris
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Thanks for that, I’ll have a look & probably just give it a go!!
It’ll be interesting if nothing else…..
😀
J
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