printed vinyl for interior doors

[Martin Pearson]

Lots of different ways to enlage pictures & retain quality but will depend on what software you are using, don’t know if signlab has any tools for enlarging images but may have. If you have photoshop it can be done with that which is what I use to do before I read a post on the forum about enlarging prints for use on vehicles & one of the members (Shane Drew) recommended some software called photozoom pro.
Course it might be that the image is large enough that you can retain the quality anyway. You won’t really know till you try.
I would try to find an image that is proportionally close without to much messing about if you can, you can stretch graphics a little without it being noticeable or crop it a bit without losing anything of importance, really just trial & error.

Just because it’s internal don’t think it doesn’t need lamination or some sort of covering. Lamination is used for abrasion resistance as well as to reduce the inks fading. You could always explain the advantages of laminating the print & offer 2 prices, one without & one with.
matt versus gloss seems to be a bit of a personal thing, I prefer matt for interior stuff generally but costomers don’t always agree but can’t help with media as I don’t run an eco solvent, solvent or latex machine.

[josh morris]

thanks for the advice Martin 🙂

yes i thought it would still need laminating but i know the customer is on a budget and was looking to keep costs down. i will give them a price for both but i will try and recommend laminating it so it lasts longer and will benefit in the long run 🙂

i also prefer matte too i think it looks a 100x better than gloss most of the time 🙂

[David Rogers]

quote josh morris:

thanks for the advice Martin 🙂

yes i thought it would still need laminating but i know the customer is on a budget and was looking to keep costs down. i will give them a price for both but i will try and recommend laminating it so it lasts longer and will benefit in the long run 🙂

i also prefer matte too i think it looks a 100x better than gloss most of the time 🙂

customers on budgets…what to say! Protect yourself by laminating it as sure as hell they’ll scratch it or clean it with something inappropriate and you will be the one that they call and blame. If they can’t afford to laminate it how can they afford the print in the first place as it should be a pretty minimal added cost?
I’ve been in this position before where I reasoned "it’s indoors, it’ll be fine" only to have an over zealous cleaner scrub off all the print…like buff the whole lot of a 3m x 600mm sign with Jif scouring powder…yeh, that’s what I thought too….
And yes I had to replace it all as "how was he supposed to know you can’t use Jif".

If a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing right…

Dave

[Harry Cleary]

I wouldn’t even give them the choice of laminate or not.
It would be like somebody selling a cup without a glaze.

[josh morris]

laminate it is :lol1:

so what do you guys recommend for the media? 🙂

[Dan Finn]

We have done this on office storage unit doors, used MD5 with matt laminate and got excellent results, MD5 with air release even easier. Would agree that lamination is essential – would not do it without.

[josh morris]

excellent, was thinking of using MD5 with matching laminate 🙂

quite looking forward to this job to see how it turns out 🙂