A customer wants a 20' x 3' digital banner, but wants to be able to change an event date year to year. If I letter the date using vinyl, will I be able to remove the vinyl the following year without messing up the print? The area would be printed yellow; solvent print.
Thanks!
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I wouldn't count on it. I'm just guessing here, but if the print cures well... a good high performsnce vinyl might peel off nicely a year later... but if it leaves glue... you won't be able to deal with that. Leave that spot white & if they muse have yellow, design a white border as buffer between glue residue & ink, so you can clean it off if you have to... then it's a 2 color date change... but still cheaper then a new banner.
Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :
Hiya Tim, Doug has the right idea. Unless the banner is laminated, the adhesive removers I work with will attack the ink. However, you'll have the potential to damage the laminate when you change the date. So, you can either design the banner with a blank spot, as Doug described. Or, laminate the banner and use removable vinyl for the date, but remove the date when the event is over. The longer the time removable vinyl is on a substrate, the more difficult it is to remove.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Here's another idea:
Especially if the banner is hanging and viewed at a distance:
Take your digital file, copy it, then crop the image to just around the date - capturing the background image as well.
Then make several duplicate layers in photoshop....and change the "date" layer (assuming your digital banner was correctly creating with layers to separate the various elements) and print off about 10 different "years" including the background on vinyl.
You can print these the same time as the banner...and simply eyeball register the new dates atop one another each year.
You might even print these overlay "date" rectangles on removable vinyl, so you can easily peel them off and then put a new one on.
Posted by Sam Staffan (Member # 4552) on :
Todd, how big is the Date area? I have a 15" plotter and would do a solid background behind the date and each year drop a vinyl solid down over the top and add new date copy.
I have found in the past anything sold and out the door like this the customer really doesnt like to keep sinking money into it.
So I make sure I don't sink extra time into it either.
If it is designed right from the beginning to be done this way they will be happy and you will be too. When it comes back in for that change and you relize how it did not take up your time. Sam
Posted by Sam Staffan (Member # 4552) on :
Tim, sorry I read Todds post and thouht I was answering to him.
