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Recommend a hi-tac matt coloured vinyl please?
Hi All,
We work with a lot of art installations and have some fairly weird and wonderful creations when it comes to vinyl cut, a lot of the work being very intricate.
Everyone always wants matt coloured vinyl not gloss and we use 8900 mactac series but have found that this just doesn’t cut it sometimes in terms of application (very hard to apply and tends to peel away easily). Especially if we are installing in a gallery, walls are generally freshly painted, which really doesn’t help our cause.
Can anyone recommend a hi-tac coloured matt range that we can use?
Thanks in advance
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Hi Jess
The problem you face is most manufacturers matt colour vinyls are a monomeric face film with a water based adhesive system. They will tend to be thicker than higher quality films (80 to 100micron) and the water based adhesive will make it easier to remove/more difficult to adhere to low energy surfaces, especially emulsion painted walls.
Your alternatives are to look at the new ranges of matt car wrap films which most of the vinyl manufacturers now produce …. these will still be thicker than a standard cast film but will give you more dimensional stability and better adhesion. Other options would be to digitally print your colour choice onto a high grab cast or polymeric base film and laminate with a matt laminate …. will generally be a thicker option (75 – 150 micron dependant on film choice) but gives you an unlimited palette of colours and you can produce as little or much as you need. Finally if you don’t have digital printing options you can always laminate any standard cast or polymeric colour with a matt laminate … if you do this make sure base colour and matt laminate are the same manufacturing technology i.e. cast base/cast lam, polymeric base/polymeric lam …. this helps keep the laminated product stable to itself.
Stuart
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