whats the best way to make double sided window stickers?

[Peter Normington]

Ian
If its spot colours,
a gerber may be the answer, print reverse on clear, 2 coats of white then print normal, I found the white foils from europoint (forget the make) were denser than spandex ones, and worked well

Peter

[Ian Bingham]

Only have a versa camm

would like to do it in house if poss as budget is tight

Ian

[Nick Minall]

well you could reverse print on to clear then print on to white and then stick them together so you can stick it on to the window 😀

[Peter Normington]

I doubt if its an option Ian, even if you could print double sided, you would have problems with alignment.

I would be interested if any one has a solution,

Nick that may be the answer…
Peter

[Ian Bingham]

tend to agree with you Peter, think i might be clutching at straws here, but it was a case of opening my mouth before the brain was in gear," of course we can do that"

Ian

[Peter Normington]

Sorry, I posted before reading Nicks suggestion
In theory it should work, but you would need some fairly opaque white, so the print would not show through though.

Peter

[Nick Minall]

you may get away with gray back vinyl depending what the print is?

[Peter Normington]

Nick, grey back would show through the clear?

Peter

[Nick Minall]

well it depends what colour you need in the end, maybe ok if you are completely printing it? like on silver vans

[Peter Munday]

Somebody posted the answer on here a while back, it goes something like this. Print blue negative onto clear self-adhesive placing cutting registration marks, remove and laminate with white when cured. Replace in machine and contour cut telling it to stop at the start point 😮 then press base point and send the blue file again but in forward, and hey presto! double sided stickers.

Peter

[Nick Minall]

the only problem with that is if when you put it back in to cut/print if you have not put it back in square, it will cut ok as it will correct for it but it will not correct when it prints.

Nick.

[Peter Munday]

It will Nick, as when it finishes cutting it returns to the start point where you tell it that’s the base point to start printing from.

Peter

[Peter Munday]

Nick it was discussed here http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … d+printing

[Nick Minall]

when you put it back in if its not square it will correct for cutting on the marks, you then set a base point, that will set that point but if its not square the outer 3 point may be out, so the print not be corrected as it will be for cutting, so it may not print in the right place.

[Phill Fenton]

I don’t think there’s an easy way to do this.

I would print onto clear, then laminate with white vinyl, then contour cut – (half the job is done).

Then I would print and contour cut onto grey backed white print vinyl – (other half of job done).

Finally – manualy overlay 2nd set of prints onto first set of prints to complete.

[Nicola McIntosh]

or cheaper way to do the job…get it screenprinted 😀 and it will be spot on 😀

nik

[Peter Normington]

again phill, i cant see how the grey back would work, as white text is part of the design.

Peter

[Nick Minall]

forgot the white text bit, Nicola way is best.

[Phill Fenton]

quote Peter Normington:

again phill, i cant see how the grey back would work, as white text is part of the design.

Peter

Ans.

1/ Laminate the clear with white vinyl (not grey backed) (note-print the blue background on the clear).

2/ On 2nd part use grey backed vinyl (as a light block) to repeat the print design on the non sticky side (as before – include printing the blue background)

Then manually put the two prints together – the result will have three layers of vinyl – first clear, middle white, last white (grey backed)

Hope that makes sense – and yes it will work 😀

[Peter Normington]

sorry Phil, missed a layer, 😳

Peter