Printed frost window graphics – advice needed please?

[Stuart Drynan]

Personally that is exactly how i do it 🙂

Print on clear in reverse then back with frosted vinyl.

Just remember that any areas that appear white will now appear frosted 🙂

[Ewan Evans]

Thanks for the reply. This may sound stupid but do you apply a contour cut image only or cover the whole window in clear vinyl not just the printed part before applying the frost? I’m trying to work out the best way of doing this using a Roland SP 300 cmyk without the ink looking to faint.

Cheers

Ewan

[Stuart Drynan]

really depends on what you are looking for and what your customer wants finish wise.

I have found that if you do a cut graphic first then overlay with frosted (full window) then you get a air section around your layer.

If you are going for a full frosted widow i would personally just do the clear the same size as even if its not 100% optically clear you are frosting it anyway 🙂

Hope that made some sort of sense 🙂

[Simon Worrall]

Trouble with printing on Frost is you cant laminate it
or it loses its frost effect.
I suppose You could try laminating a clear print with frost…Ive not seen it done though.

[Stuart Drynan]

That is exactly how it would need done.
Printed on clear first in reverse then backed in frost.
If you printed directly to the frost then you would have a faded image and it wouldn’t be clear

[Bob Scullion]

How you doing Ewan, I done something similar but had to print the image on something like 4 passes to make the image more vibrant (lays down a couple of layers of ink) as I’ve found that depending on what colour you are trying to achieve it can sometimes look a bit wishy washy so to speak.