Please Help, I Need White Printing Onto Clear Vinyl

[David Rogers]

You’d normally do a backlit menu box mounted on OPAL acrylic not clear…that gives you your white when mounted.

At a real push – you can buy white translucent vinyl from most suppliers (for lightboxes)

Dave

[Dave Ellis]

I have already overlayed clear perspex with dark blue translucent as per the customers request. I chose to do the boards this way because of the costs involved in using tinted board. My original plan was to use cut vinyl lettering in white and yellow, but after cutting a test piece I found that it would be far to labour intensive and not cost efficient. I have therefore decided that a print on clear vinyl would be the best option, but unfortunately the customer wants white text and this is where the problem lies. Any help would be gratefully appreciated, as I am unable to find a digital printing shop that can print white onto clear vinyl.

Thanks
Dave

[David Rogers]

quote Dave Ellis:

I have already overlayed clear perspex with dark blue translucent as per the customers request. I chose to do the boards this way because of the costs involved in using tinted board. My original plan was to use cut vinyl lettering in white and yellow, but after cutting a test piece I found that it would be far to labour intensive and not cost efficient. I have therefore decided that a print on clear vinyl would be the best option, but unfortunately the customer wants white text and this is where the problem lies. Any help would be gratefully appreciated, as I am unable to find a digital printing shop that can print white onto clear vinyl.

Thanks
Dave

I’m NOT being cheeky, but a bit of forethought and planning before committing to sourcing a clear print mid job…

You do realise that as you’ve flood coated the whole thing in blue – the yellow that you plan on overlaying will now show as green, and quite indestinct as the inks used in digital printers are really quite translucent. To be honest, if you want to get the text printed, as it IS mind numbing to weed out a huge menu – scrap the blue, print the WHOLE thing on clear – including the blue background and yellow text – leaving the white as clear and back off the clear sheet on the reverse with a translucent white..turning it into opal.

Or get cutting that vinyl – cheaper in materials…probably just as long on time after you’ve sourced an ‘easy’ way. Not the right way to do a lightbox as the ‘white’ will actually be darker than the background…

Not cost effective anymore – but you’re sort of committed now you have used clear acrylic…which costs near enough the same as opal anyway.

[David Lowery]

Put this in Quote & Sub-contracting forum and ask for someone to quote using the Gerber Edge to print a solid white onto clear.

Dave