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Shop Awnings – What Media to use?
Has anyone had any experience in printed graphics onto shop awnings? A client has come to us wanting 5 large restaurant awnings logo’d up. They have a full colour logo and white text. The awnings are a fabric type material rather than Banner PVC. After further consultation with the client we can get away with just white text at a push, but would certainly look better with printed logo. Looked over the net and nothing? Apart from using vinyl as masking and painting. Surely they must be a vinyl out there that would do the job? Curtain sided Wagon material is the only thing we can think of… I know its sticky but will this stick to an awning? We have a heat press for material but would be a real task to take down and re- install!!
Any Ideas?? Stuck!!
Cheers Jim
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I used to paint lots of these at one time with a brush, we used oil based undercoat and no mask but straight off the brush.
Just had a thought though, I know, I’m not paid to think 😀Print onto canvas material, seal with a liquid laminate and stich the logo to the awning.
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HI JIm this is very tricky had a shot at this a few times and have supplied new awnings as well. We dont do either now as experience has been painful and expensive.
Awning material really does not lend it self to vinyl especially when they are rolled up, there may be speciality materials nowadays for this but ??
The way the factories do this is print direct to the material and then make the awning this is the only safe way to do it , sorry
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Hi Jim,
I’ve used a Hi-Tac white vinyl from Metamark for some static awnings.
Only small cut text though 150mm high x 700mm wide.The vinyl I applied has been in place for over 2 years without peeling / failing. I could not offer the customer any guarantee for the work though but they were still happy to proceed.
I also looked into S/A vinyl for sailing numbers, a company sent me some hi-tac samples but again I can’t point you in the exact direction. If you google self adhesive sailing numbers you may get somewhere.
Cheers, Dan.
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with regards printing, although I may have a UV, we subbed it out
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Cheers for the replies… Shocked there isn’t a material for the job?! You would have thought by now vinyl type suppliers would have had something with the mass of shop fronts with these installed… Think might go down the sailing material route… Or it may be just one of those jobs that will be more hassle than its worth!!
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yes there is, we had a swatch which was some tough foreign banner grade material.
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I used a heat press vinyl for a job I did years ago.
Ran through the cutter and took out my heat press. Managed to get a good job on it.
Gawd knows where the photos are
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I used to do these for an installer and the only way was oil bound undercoat through a mask if necessary. I can’t imagine a vinyl manufacturere making anything specifically for this type of blind; there just aren’t enough of them to justify the production costs. The material used for sails is nothing like the canvas used for blinds unless you are looking at an old sailing barge, I tried that.
Don’t forget, if they are old they’ll be filthy, after all no one washes them. Try putting a piece of material on the knee of your jeans and see how long it stays on for.
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Found the material… its french… "Precontraint 302"
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