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Printing to Static Cling
Hi all,
Does anyone print onto static cling media using activasol inks. I have a job to print lots of window stickers, and instead of printing onto clear then backing up with white. I thought it it would be cheaper and easier to use static cling. I’m having problems though. Does anyone have a good set up of their profiles that gets a good print.
I’ve lowered and raised heat settings. Changed ink limit in rip, but still not good enough.
Any help is very much appreciated.
From Mark
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7 Replies
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Hi Mark,
We’ve done a few sets of static cling window stickers on our versacamm, sorry to say but we had nothing but complaints from the 5 clients we supplied to. Ended up having to use ultra removable and backing in white.
But I just used my usual vinyl profile (we’re ecosol max though) Grafityp S12P or oracal 3164.
Andy
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if your backing with digital white vinyl, then print clear with the white profile. This is in theory taking into account that the clear vinyl doesn’t lens/distort colour.
Only heats and feed rates could be different but dont worry too muchWe tried static cling but its not right.
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Mark you need to find someone with an Edge.
Jason
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unfortunately jason is right.
i printed some lovely small stuff and stuck them around the unit, a few days later removed one and the ink had stuck to the window 🙁
tried to do some large stuff and was rubbish when i had a moan at the suppliers they said the spec sheet says don’t print on the window side.
realizing there mistake credited the roll.chris
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quote Jason Davies:Mark you need to find someone with an Edge.Jason
😀 😀 😀 😀 You’re too cool Jason
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Been through this one i even got a profile from B&P who supplied the cling and this did not print that good, bit of heat and ;imiting the total ink gave washed out colours but better than ink running.
Not a good product and oone i try to avoid using.
Russell.
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We’ve done a lot of this onto white self cling. It works best if the design doesn’t
have a full bleed, as you need a bit of unprinted vinyl to stick to the window.If the design does bleed off, I would recommend reverse printing it onto clear,
and then backing with either a screen white, or flooding with white vinyl
through a laminator, although depending on the size, the last option may make
the label too heavy to stick.We use a profile specifically for white self cling from Allprint Supplies. Most
profiles for white vinyl work OK too. Keep your heat to 35 pre / 35 print.Forgot to add that we let it gas out for a minimum of 48 hours to avoid the
ink sticking to the window issue.
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