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window stickers on on the versacamm
just wondering if the veracamm can do reverse print window stickers
for the inside of car windows, (?) eddie -
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Or you could just print in reverse onto clear vinyl.
Cheers, Dewi
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thanks dewi, but am i right in saying the versacamm cant print white?
i beleive you can only use white vinyl in it, (?) -
You’re right Eddie 😀 Just looked it up and its CMYK, can’t seem to find any spot colours for it. White static cling it is then. Unless you design has no white in it that is, which is highly unlikely, but possible 😉
What are the printing costs per metre for the VersaCamm though? I can’t seem to find the cost of the carts atm 😕
Cheers, Dewi
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There is an easy way , print reverse onto clear without a cut , overlam with white missing the crop marks and then reload and cut and you get a die cut sticker with a white back (I was looking at a way of actually printing this white back in register with the front after laminating and then cutting to get a DOUBLE sided sticker that sticks on the inside of a window)
Failing that print on ANY white material (polyprop etc) and apply whats called “crystal vue” which is a absolutely clear adhesive meant for mounting graphics face forward inside glass.
Carts are about 70 quid a piece and at worst you use 1.5-2ml per sq ft total ink coverage , 200 ml of ink per cart , or round 30 pence per ml and you can extrapolate that to 60 pence per sq f
These are empirical figures , not what mnfgrs say (they are always optimisitic – their “best case” cost and speeds they trumpet are not saleable unless your customer is blind or desperate.)
If you print directly onto clear which is going onto a clear or transluscent background , you actually have to set an overprint , IE the machine uses double inks so that the print desnity is increasesd so you dont get a washed out graphic (If the clear is being put on a light opaque background this isnt an issue , like if you back with white) -
Perhaps I should be more clear , one of the strengths of the versacam is the fact that you can print with crop marks and then work on the material , like laminate it etc and then relaod it in the machine which reads the crop marks and only then perform a cut in register with the print.
Thats why its east tp rint , then to overlam white and then cut thru the white and the clear to get a shaped decal with a white backing.
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