what ways do people blow up a copy/design for a window?

[Bernardo Maldonado]

yikes sorry, ralph gregory that is.

bernardo 😎

[Duncan Wilkie]

Bernardo,
A opaque or overhead project was what we used to use. If you use an overhead projector, just make a transparency on a photo copier or you can draw directly on a piece of transparency material with a fine tip marker. Then project onto your pattern paper taped to the wall. The paper pattern can be used directly for windows or pounced for trucks or board signs. For wooden and plastic signs, you can project directly on to the substrate and sketch out with a stabilo pencil or the like. Even outdoor walls can be projected at night and drawn out. Just be careful to be square to the wall to minimise image distortion.
If you have a vinyl plotter. you can replace the knife with a pen and plot onto white paper…in panels if necessary. Or if you have the pouncing option, you can make a pounce pattern on the plotter.
Hope this helps…best of luck.
Duncan
….making signs since 1970

[Bernardo Maldonado]

thanks for the reply duncan. yeah, a projector can get the job done, sure. since i´m a starter i´ve not got all the necesary gear. i have to use the simplest means. but then again working with the basics is what makes this art so charming. it is really good to hear that there´s no miraculous way of doing it tho! i like the idea of the copying and the pouncer. dont have a plotter and dont want to bother another company as a possible competition. most use vinyl in germany.

(would n´t mind going to canada heared so much good stuff about that place.) thanx again!

bernardo

[Lynn Normington]

sorry Bernanado I’m not sure what you are trying to do, paint on a window or apply vinyl?? where in Germany are you ?

Lynn

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Duncan Wilkie:

Bernardo,
A opaque or overhead project was what we used to use. If you use an overhead projector, just make a transparency on a photo copier or you can draw directly on a piece of transparency material with a fine tip marker. Then project onto your pattern paper taped to the wall. The paper pattern can be used directly for windows or pounced for trucks or board signs. For wooden and plastic signs, you can project directly on to the substrate and sketch out with a stabilo pencil or the like. Even outdoor walls can be projected at night and drawn out. Just be careful to be square to the wall to minimise image distortion.
If you have a vinyl plotter. you can replace the knife with a pen and plot onto white paper…in panels if necessary. Or if you have the pouncing option, you can make a pounce pattern on the plotter.
Hope this helps…best of luck.
Duncan

….making signs since 1970

nice one duncan…..i’ve forgotton i used to sit in the dark some nights…tracing outlines…. 😀

[Bernardo Maldonado]

Hi there lynn,
What I´m trying to do is basicly put up my design on a window.
The original sketch is A4/ letters page to around five and a half meters width.

I´ve done big window splashes before, but these were really simple.
“REDUCED!” and the like. I can send some pics soon. These I did straight off on the window, since the styling was not a major issue. I got positive feedback too.

The thing is I´m curious as to what other people have tried. I really feel like old the old sign masters did everything without a copier or anything, since the machines werent around then anyway. I like the idea of drawing it out on paper and pouncing it! Sounds good. Of course I should probably just use time saving stuff anyway right! Yup!

Lynn, I´m in Mannheim. Been here for ages now used to live in Heidelberg not far off.
I´ve got a british passport as I grew up there and studied there. (Nottingham /Sheffield /Liverpool). I was born in Chile, South America. In Mannheim there´s hardly any work asked for by hand. Window and signpaintig wise. Its tuff but there may be hope cos its exclusive.
What I really need is a course on signpainting dont know where to find one in Germany or my area. Oh well…

Where are you guys from and what do you do?

This website really does help. Gives people hope too. I always write too much. I could go on for hours. I´m terrible. Cool work tho`! All the best! Thanx for your interest.

Bernardo

[Bernardo Maldonado]

oh yeah, i´m trying to paint on a window!

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[Lynn Normington]

Hi Bernardo, we work with vinyl only windows vehicles any thing vinyl related, we are based in Luton , but Peters sister is in Koln she has recently started doing vinyl graphics, good luck talk soon 😎

Lynn