printing onto clear?

[George Elsmore]

once on a white background they should be fine mate but you wil not get the colours right on any other colour than white.

George

[Ryan Fairweather]

thats what i thought, but the ones i saw in the dealership were printed onto glass and then placed onto glass and the colours were perfect.

Thats what threw me

[Alistair Richards]

I don’t know anything about printing, but at a guess, maybe the ones you saw were printing with a machine with white ink capabilities.

Ali

[Peter Munday]

Ryan they could have been screen printed.

Peter

[George Elsmore]

not being funny here but why would you print onto clear if you knew they were going onto glass except if you were doing it in reverse then as i have done before you back it with white & contour cut (?) (?) or is it screened or maybe even a thermal ribbon printer which can print white

just my 2p worth

George

[Stephen Morriss]

I’ve had good results printing onto clear for a window, the light had to shine through it.

I did the usual artwork and then in the rip I darkened it by 10% and printed, this worked a lot better that overprint which just destroyed the detail.

It’s not perfect though, a screen printed sticker would have been better but there were only 4 needed and they were all different.

Steve

[Ryan Fairweather]

its a digitally printed logo that a customer wants on her rear screen that cannot be ‘kiss cut’.

[Stephen Morriss]

The trouble with glass is that it’s usually treated as black if viewed from outside, this causes problems straight away with a clear sticker as you need to back it up with white to get the colours to work.
If you look at most window stickers you’ll see they are either backed up with white or are printed onto white.

Steve

[Pauly]

Solvent inks are translucent, this is why people are having so much success printing onto reflectives at the moment.

Ive had a lot of success printing onto clear with fairly solid colours, but never a total blockout.

My guess is that they were screen printed.

[Jason Davies]

Or run on an Edge, the perfect machine for running this type of sticker, we run thousands of these no problem.

[Robert Lambie]

if it is a short run on glass, why not print onto clear and apply some white vinyl on the back? i did it many moons ago, works perfect.

[j4mes]

we tend to print the clear on our grenadier, with cut marks. then laminate the back with white. We have pre-cut black cut marks which we stick back on the graphic (as u can see the cut marks through the white) then load back into the grenadier & send the cut data.