anyone ever use wrap/printable vinyl for lightbox?

[Tony Rome]

My customer has a logo that has many colors and did not want to use 6 different rolls of cut vinyl.
It's for one of those shopping center lightbox signs where you have the acrylic slide in panels.
I was thinking of contour cutting some printable vinyl, would that work and allow light through as well or close to cut sign vinyl?

I was also wondering if I could just print as big as the insert is and just cover the whole thing, something tells me that wouldn't work as well but not sure.
Anybody do this before?

 

[R08]

Translucent printable vinyl is what to use.

 

[Bradster941]

Translucent printable vinyl is what to use.

+1


This is what you want to use.

 

[Tony Rome]

makes sense, thanks guys! will do.

 

[signcrafters london]

Use the search function. There are quite a few threads on it. Some people print twice on white trans. Some print once on white trans and once on clear and apply both.

 

[BigfishDM]

Yes Translucent Vinyl is the way to go, I sell a great one for only $0.22 a sq.ft

 

[J Hill Designs]

the way to go is first surface print on translucent with a reverse print on clear second surface

 

[HulkSmash]

Yes Translucent Vinyl is the way to go, I sell a great one for only $0.22 a sq.ft

his is good. im still using it

 

[FS-Keith]

we also print reversed on clear vinyl and bac it up with white and apply 2nd surface to clear

 

[bulbus_maximus]

How do you make sure you get the alignment right when printing on two surfaces? If there is major details in the graphic - for eg: a photograph then I find that it becomes blurred... also some times the two different medias on which printed stretch differently