Supplier of Plastic Letters and Numbers

[Adrian Hewson]

Hi Darell

This enquiry is currently going round all the big sign companies, these letters I guess are screen printed onto 1mm rigid plastic.

join the lsit quoting by seeing your local screen printer

Regards Adrian

[Bill Dewison]

Can you not just vinyl them onto 1mm stuff? Be fairly cheap to do.

Cheers, Dewi

[Andy Gorman]

My thoughts exactly. Can’t remember what it’s called, but there’s a rigid pvc (not foam, more dense) that comes in thinner sheets. Robert Horne probably sell it. Anyway, anyone with a plotter could do that job.

[Rebecca]

We would use huntsman high impact polystyrene (Robert Horne/A&P Display) either in 1000 micron or 1500 micron

Rebecca

[Andy Gorman]

That’s the word I was looking for: polystyrene!

Darrell, if the method we are talking about is acceptable, feel free to e-mail the details; I’ll have a look at it for you.

I hope I’m not breaking any rules here Rob. Apologies if so.

[Darrell Wootton]

Hi BigG

I am not sure of the material, however doing some research the US web sites are selling the digits as part of a readerboard system?

At the moment I am not sure of the amount of letters needed.

Its for a scoreboard that needs to cater for 192 players with the following categories per player:

Card Size: 25mm Wide x 55mm Height (Approx)
Digit Size: 15mm Wide x 30mm Height (Approx)
Position: (1-192)
Surname (For 192 Players) (Black on Yellow)
Rnd 1 Score (0-99) (White on Red)
Rnd 2 Score (0-99) (Black on White)
Rnd 3 Score (0-99) (White on Blue)
Rnd 4 Score (0-99) (Black on White)
Total Score (0-999) (Black on White)

Category Headers (for the above categories) x 2
Main Board Headers x 2 (White on Navy)

So I need enough letters and number to cater for all 192 players names and score combinations and the material needs to be used outdoors!

I am trying to get hold of the client to ask how many letters and numbers they need!!.

Do you work on a per digit price or supply in packs?

Thanks

Darrell…..

[ian hobbs]

the product i think you are looking for is a spandex material called plastigraphix…but robert horne do a similar pvc in sheet form not sprocketed.

hope this helps

ian

[Shane Drew]

Rebecca is right to suggest HIPs material.

I do a bit of these. I cut the letters with a border the overall size required. I then use the border as the cut edge. HIPs will cut with a stanley knife no worries.

If I am doing a lot as there are here, I’d get the material cut to size by the supplier.

Pretty easy job really, but you’ll be sick of it by the end 🙄 Low material costs but a high labour content.

Cheers

[Bill Dewison]

I could have sworn Europoint display do that 1mm foamboardy stuff, it is like a rigid plastic, but its cool for doing flexible signs that you need to bend into place.

As has been said, really easy to cut, but its a little unforgiving if you slip with the blade. I had to recut the same piece 3 times, wasted loads of material, and all because I didn’t use a non-slip rule 😳 If there’s an expensive way to learn, I’ll find it 😳

Cheers, Dewi

[Shane Drew]

quote Dewi:

I could have sworn Europoint display do that 1mm foamboardy stuff, it is like a rigid plastic, but its cool for doing flexible signs that you need to bend into place.

Cheers, Dewi

Dewi, you have such a way with words :lol1:

The ‘1mm foamboardy stuff’ we have here is called expanded foam PVC (ePVC) and it is just as Dewi says, but beware, it comes in 2 different styles (here anyway) a UV version and a non UV version. Get the wrong one and it will fail outside really quickly.

It is a good replacement for HIPS as it is easier to cut, but the price is much the same.

Cheers

[ian hobbs]

plastigraphix also goes through the edge and plotter, so just snap and crack out the shape once printed and cut..

cheap as chips!