Reflective Inks

[David McDonald]

Hi I’m sure there is a reflective white vinyl now available that you print with your Versacamm, JV3, Cadet etc. etc and the printed colours are reflective. ie. its the vinyl not the inks that are reflective. Sure if you gave your regular media supplier a call they would know.

Cheers
Macky

[Peter Normington]

The inks as far as I know are not reflective, but transparent, so the reflective base shows through, Gerber edge has done it for years, not quite sure if inkjets have caught up yet. But I doubt if you could match a pantone,

Peter

[Paul Franklin]

I must be missing a trick here then Peter as I’ve got an edge.

I’ve used it for printing onto metallics and silver and gold mirror before but where printed the underlying vinyl has not shown through.

Do I need to reduce the fill %?

[Peter Normington]

Paul
the avery reflective 2420 is good for printing, use the translucent colours, and mark up can be very good.

Peter

[Chris Dowd]

Someone posted a Hexis price list earlier this week in PDF form. I had a flick through and I am sure I noticed solvent printable reflective (and gold & silver) in there.

Chris.

[Usman Khan]

Paul,
Relective inks for inkjet do not exist,I know because I have been hunting for these for last two years.I have read some articles enumerating the problems in manufacturing reflective inkjet inks.

The white ink option such as in Mimaki JV3 etc is the best for printing on colored or translucent vinyls for vehicle wraps with pantone matched colors if you have the profile set for the respective media and use OEM inks.

Black light reflective inkjet inks do exist,but their application is limited to indoors and black lights are required to make the prints reflect.However if the surroundings have some ambient white,tungsten or daylight the impact is lost to a great extent.

regards

Usman

[Derf]

3M has the following medias for light solvent and solvent printers. (not for water based inks)

3M IJ5000
3M IJ5100r
3M IJ680-10
3M IJ680CR-10

I have printed on this media and it prints great!

[MartinDenton]

try all print supplies in slough they do a reflective vinyl for taking eco inks.

use it quite a lot as it gives a considerable saving on three layers of reflective vinyl if you do traffic signs for private premises

[Robert Lambie]

we have been using mactac "regular" reflective vinyl from Anderson’s for the past few months after higgi told us he was having decent results using his cadet on the reflective. we have been running a fair bit through our grenadier and no problems as such. however… we recently received a sample roll of the NEW digital reflective from oracal… it is brilliant! running our normal profile settings the prints are perfect and reflects light very well indeed… i don’t know if it is now in stock but if its not its due any day, hope so anyway… as I’m getting desperate for it now. 😕
Paul, your edge should be able to print on most reflective vinyls successfully… i printed onto reflective years back with my PC60. big Kelly green logos with bevelled edges… worked a treat and caught the light no problem.

[Micheal Donnellan]

Usman Khan
Where can you get the black light ink?

[Stephen Morriss]

I use the regular Mactac reflective in my Cadet as well, the results are very good, you have to play with the colours a little but it does work very well.

The LG std reflective has a coating on that seems to repel the ink, it won’t dry or anything, I think it’s to make people buy their very expensive digital reflective.

Be interested in the new Oracal reflective though as I really like the Oracal range.

Steve