printing transparant material like polyester or polycarbonate (on the backside) needs a white background.
Especially technical products like graphic overlays (frontfoils) have to be high -quality and very opaque
Like many others we do not (yet) have a white-printing option in our machine. Probably the white from printers is far too transparant anyway.
Therefore we sometimes create the white by screenprinting, adding a layer vinyl or use white double-sided gluefoil.
We struggle with the following:
-Adding white vinyl adds PVC to the product, is not usable e.g. automotive or many other professionel applicatons (only for proto's)
-Using white gluefoil from 3M is expensive, and hard to get here, Neschen gudy foil is for retailposters , the white is somewhat transparant and the glue is probably not good enough for long-lasting products
-Printing white ink whith screenprinting is perfect, but for lower quantities it is less interesting, and still we need glue as extra production step.
Questions:
Who knows another double-sided gluefoil. (ik know only the two above,)
(for the sreenprinters among us) Anyone experience with white glue to be screenprinted? (maybe create it by adding white pigment to the glue)
Any other suggestions or thoughts about this?
Especially technical products like graphic overlays (frontfoils) have to be high -quality and very opaque
Like many others we do not (yet) have a white-printing option in our machine. Probably the white from printers is far too transparant anyway.
Therefore we sometimes create the white by screenprinting, adding a layer vinyl or use white double-sided gluefoil.
We struggle with the following:
-Adding white vinyl adds PVC to the product, is not usable e.g. automotive or many other professionel applicatons (only for proto's)
-Using white gluefoil from 3M is expensive, and hard to get here, Neschen gudy foil is for retailposters , the white is somewhat transparant and the glue is probably not good enough for long-lasting products
-Printing white ink whith screenprinting is perfect, but for lower quantities it is less interesting, and still we need glue as extra production step.
Questions:
Who knows another double-sided gluefoil. (ik know only the two above,)
(for the sreenprinters among us) Anyone experience with white glue to be screenprinted? (maybe create it by adding white pigment to the glue)
Any other suggestions or thoughts about this?