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Well, this certainly isn't chiming in soon. I've just been too busy trying to put last minute details on orders so I can disappear for a week. We do make a jaket sign made out of polypropylene that is much stiffer than the typical bag sign. We sell it to realtors and remodeler types. We also sell a lot of them to sign shops for blanks. But Michael, the sign I think you are referring to is the polybag signs. It is made out a polyethelyne bag, it's printed and assembled on an automatic roto gravure line. Very inespensive frame and all, you see a lot of them in the political area of signage. I do sell them but there is not enough amrgin for me to purchase and 2 of us resell so I tell my wholesale customers to go to www.patriotsigns.com they offer discounting to resellers
-------------------- Robert M. Kistler South Bend Screen Process, Inc. 2018 S. Franklin St. South Bend IN 46613 Posts: 131 | From: South Bend Indiana | Registered: Jul 2003
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Would you use offset printing inks on the Polyproylene or maybe silk screen inks?
I would like to airbrush on actual Tyvek sheets. I have asked one of the Window Splash experts here, this question, but with this topic active here tonight... I thought maybe I might actually be able to pull this "brilliant idea" of mine off.
Has anyone painted on Tyvek House Wrap sheets?
I'm working on 8 HUGE murals for a Muffler Shop and I want them "portable" when he moves the shop in about 5 years.
The related to the shop owner side of the Moon
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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quote:Originally posted by The Moon: Would you use offset printing inks on the Polyproylene or maybe silk screen inks?
I would like to airbrush on actual Tyvek sheets. I have asked one of the Window Splash experts here, this question, but with this topic active here tonight... I thought maybe I might actually be able to pull this "brilliant idea" of mine off.
Has anyone painted on Tyvek House Wrap sheets?
I'm working on 8 HUGE murals for a Muffler Shop and I want them "portable" when he moves the shop in about 5 years.
The related to the shop owner side of the Moon
have him take the walls with him
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
"Sgts Shugart and Gordon again request permission to rope down to crash site two" Posts: 1223 | From: new orleans.la. | Registered: Mar 2000
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Hay Steffie I think yer reachin 5 years these days on an exterior mural is a good lifespan ..given the paints we have to work with Now this guy wants more than that and he wants em portable? Dont those house diapers have the name printed all over em? keep in mind that if a muffler dont spit the bit after 5 years its a miracle
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ah thanks guys for stickin up for me in both your wonderful and uniquely halrious ways! (Luv you two nuts!)
Gavin, you KNOW I was drinking Pepsi while reading your post! ...I nearly hosed my LapTop(s)
Michael, How's Shirl? .... Keeping you in line? - No? I bet she really IS, but your "secret" is safe with me.
He's not using them OUT side the shop, they are for the in side... and I want them to be portable.... THEN I can ALSO have the convenience of working on them at home and delivering them for him to hang way the frick up there. for looking out for me though. I'm planning to do some Portfolio Work in Large Scale and his shop inspires me...
Just wondering though, if anyone's ever painted on Tyvek here. Let's face it, we have a lot of Sign-Test-Pilot's here because we are a hungry bunch for stuff like: what you can do to paint a sign, and on what you can possibly paint it on, and (to keep up with times..) what computer to buy, which Blades cut best, LOL It's like the Letterhead heartbeat. Right?
The rambling on WAY too much side of the Moon
Sorry, didn't mean to switch the post.
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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When we screen print tyvek, or should I say when I have too, it takes special inks. It is made of a polyolefin spun fiber stuff. So it it has lots of pores to grab around but not necessarily fully adhered. It takes testing because it acts somewhat like styrafoam. most things will melt it. One possiblity would be to buy screen print inks intended for tyvek, thin it down and apply, but I wouldn't go anywhere near that 5 year stuff. That's all you can expect at the best, and that is if it is full strength, if you lean it out with whites to get pastel colors the fade resistance is gone. So as always test with whatever you intend to use and garantee nothing for longevity unless you can use products that you guys and gals normally would use for mural work, and it sounds like others are saying 5 years is a long time.
Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
-------------------- Robert M. Kistler South Bend Screen Process, Inc. 2018 S. Franklin St. South Bend IN 46613 Posts: 131 | From: South Bend Indiana | Registered: Jul 2003
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Thanks Bob! (and I've always been a fan of Kenny Rogers- LOL)
I'm startin to get it through my thick head this project may not work out, but I AM still gonna try... something. I'll post the results when I get them done.
The creatively dense side of the Moon
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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If they're for interior use, why not use aluminum or mdo or sintra or anything along those lines? The longevity of the paint shouldn't be nearly as big an issue if they'll be inside away from the UV.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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we usta paint banners on a material called tara cloth.It was like an artists canvas.It was a fabric with somekinda coating.You may try to fingd some of that.Or get some big banners made up...
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I bet she really IS, but your "secret" is safe with me. ![[Thanks]](graemlins/thanks.gif)
for looking out for me though. I'm planning to do some Portfolio Work in Large Scale and his shop inspires me... 
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