Good post! How could anyone compare microns of solid pigment versus ink. I know a lot of people who have bought printers say that it saves on buying rolls of different colors whereas a printer only requires the one roll of white. A few years back I did a back sprayed acryllic lightbox for a customer which faces east/west and both faces look exactly the same today as against another business got skins done at the same time and they are al;ready on their 3rd. I know it would have been much cheaper but it must now be quickly catching up. The problem is that the "newbies" can't understand that a
sign is a vastly different advertising mrdium as against a business card or a flyer. Because a
computer can do "special effects" doesn't mean to say that every last one has to be used.
I will take a photo of the
sign that I have to pass every day that I compared to earlier to demonstrate what I mean. Thank youy for posing a good question and I also look forward to the response to this post. As for your original question I would say that cut vinyl would win every time over a print, and by the way I quite often require a print to be done and I use a print broker for the job.