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Printing onto clear vinyl – help needed with lightbox please
Hey everyone, just a quick question. We have to digitally print a small lightbox tomorrow and i was wondering if any of you just print directly onto clear and face apply it to your opal acrylic? We would normally do lightboxes with cut translucent direct onto opal but this is customer supplied artwork so my intention was to print straight onto clear if this will work ok? Or maybe there is a better way?
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3 Replies
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Hi David
I’m sure that will work but it would probably look better printed on something like MDT-600 from Metamark which a translucent, back lit, white vinyl. It wont show up any squeegee marks or silvering that clear can initially show.
I don’t know what printer you are using but I’d lay down as much ink as possible, ‘overprint’, in Versaworks + high quality. The print can look washed our when illuminated at night otherwise – you will never get colours as strong as translucent self coloured CAD cut vinyl.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Macky -
Pretty much as David said we did one only last week, print to clear using a standard profile for clear we then laminated in the same clear for protection and overlaid on opal white acrylic panel – silvering/squeegee marks were present but wont last.
John 😀
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Hi Guys, yeah we printed it direct onto clear using the max impact setting in versaworks. Worked a treat!! Cheers
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