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Printing on plastic

  • 11-12-2011 7:53pm
    #1
    Meat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭


    Hi guys, I'm doing a college project and I need to find out some facts. I'll be looking to print on plastic (in theory, not realistically), probably a flexible perspex (coloured either black or white). The shape would be about 6 by 17.5/22/25.5 inches, so three different rectangular sizes. It would be flexible enough to reach end to end and make a circle. On the outer side of the circle, that's where I'd be looking to print. I've Google'd screen printing and searched this forum too but it's mostly, if not all, talking about printing on t-shirts. Would it be the same principle on a plastic? Would it be possible to use multiple colours?

    Also, I need to find out which method would make more sense: learning to do it myself and investing in machinery or asking a printing company to do it.

    Any help would be greatly appeciated, cheers.


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  • #2
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    you can print on plastic (acrylic) using a flatbed uv solvent printer

    the larger sign, and production companies would use this kind of thing


  • #3
    Meat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭Meat


    Is acrylic plastic sturdy and inflexible like glass? Would such a machinery be appropriate for bendier types of plastic?

    Would the results from a flatbed uv solvent printer look better or the same as screen printing?


  • #4
    Red Harvest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭Red Harvest


    Meat wrote: »
    Is acrylic plastic sturdy and inflexible like glass? Would such a machinery be appropriate for bendier types of plastic?

    Would the results from a flatbed uv solvent printer look better or the same as screen printing?

    Sign makers have their own printers that can print either direct or in most cases indirectly. Basically they produce a giant sticker peel off the back and stick it on the acrylic. Just look at all the sign written vans on the road, they don't fit under a printer ;).


  • #5
    cfcm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭cfcm


    Hi there,

    I'm a print designer and try and screen print my own work as much as possible. However Hallprint is a company that offers a great screen printing service and they do it on a number of sufaces from fabric to metal and I'm sure plastic! They were really helpful and not only supplied me with great items, but they also gave me great advice.
    This is there website http://www.hallprint.ie/
    You should contact them and ask for Trevor.

    Hope this helps!


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