Printing onto silver metallic

[Dan Osterbery]

pretty sure grafytp do one!

http://www.grafityp.co.uk/sign-making-v … lised.html

cheers

Dan

[David Rowland]

i can print BLACK onto avery silver or gold i think… no other colours settle well enough.

[Gary Birch]

Metamark do one Steve. Pretty sure Warren has used it.

Cheers

Gary

[Steve Morgan]

Thanks for the answers but all these seem to be the ‘chrome’ type material not just silver metallic.

[Quentin Tomkies]

Hey Steve

I regularly print onto Oracal 551 metallic silver with eco-solvent inks. Works really well, blacks are dark and colours get a metallic look to them – looks really good with a gloss laminate too…
Equal success with Metamark M7 silver.

Cheers
Q

[Shane Drew]

Same here Quentin, I use 551 silver all the time with solvent inks. Solid Blacks, and the colours come through as metalic. Looks great in the sun

[Steve Morgan]

Oh brilliant thanks I use 551 and 751, It’s not so much knowing that the ink goes on, it’s knowing that it’ll last. I will be laminating it anyway.

Steve

[Shane Drew]

avoid 751 Steve, as it often has a film over the surface. You’ll need to clean it with metho first. 551 is straight out of the box though

[Vic Adair]

Hi Steve, we print onto Avery 835 silver metallic and have never had any complaint, we then laminate it.

Havent printed on to it and then not laminated so dont know how it would be long term unlaminated!

[David Rowland]

I found the avery only really worked with Black, i had roast the vinyl for colours but black settled well enough for small text

i don’t reconmended it for big prints

[Steve Morgan]

Thanks Dave, this is only going to be black on silver anyway and only 350mm or so in diameter.

Steve