« on: January 13, 2013, 11:37:07 PM »
The ink shifts because the print has not been laminated.. it will also decay pretty fast under UV light.
Screen printed is the best you can get.. then comes the " next Gen" which is a digital print.. this type of p[rinter can print white which standard wide format digital print cannot.
There are a few base vinyls that can be printed onto which range in price ( not by much id like to add).. the cheapest ( monomeric) will lift after a certain amount of time and really is for temporary installations.. then you have polymeric which is for more permanant installations and suffers less shrinkage. Finally we have CAST films which are a stabilised liquid.. it will not shrink as its not a squished out lump of plastic but is formed by a liquid base.
You can print onto any of these vinyls but unless it is run through a laminater, the print will wear off. Rolls of laminate are bought and the print is fed through the machine. This is not like the heat laminater you can buy for A4 sheets etc.. it is a roll of thin clear vinyl that comes in gloss, semi gloss or matt... without this protective layer, any print will wear very quickly.
Thanks for the info, guess I will find out, the BSD ones he just said "high quality vinyl, laminated"....
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