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A customer wants a digital print on a vinyl wheel cover, Is there a particular brand of wheel cover to buy and where from? And what vinyl should I use to print on so it will not come of and can the print be laminated?
-------------------- Mark Stokes Mark Stokes Signs Mount Barker South Australia Posts: 388 | From: Mount Barker | Registered: Jan 2005
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eeeeuuuwww, Mark- why not ask a hard question!
I did one like that 6 years ago- the digi print was on clear- well it was a photo quality sticker of a labrador. It went on the centre of a (standard) floppy vinyl cover on the back of a Toyota RAV. I used Solver Brite-glo low sheen acrylic banner paint for the rest & brushed it. The sticker peeled up a bit after a few years, and began to crack last year, but the writing's still fine.
Another one I did was brushed & airbrushed in the same solver banner paint. The cover came from Supacheap. ($35.00 ?) It outlasted the owner and they kept the cover after they traded the car in.
Others seem to use vinyl- avery did make a banner vinyl- but I'm not keen on the idea, due to wrinkling. Solver paints have served me well there.
Hope someone else chips in with a better answer Mark- maybe send an email to Neil White in Melton? (Whitey2)
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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if getting a digi print, from a Pro2, or a versacamm, try & use a banner grade vinyl, and yes, get THEM to laminate it BEFORE you try & apply it. It's no fun stuffing it up and it's really stretchy & floppy before being laminated. Comply is good, but the tyre cover vinyls have sort of grooves in some of them anyway.
Use as big a squeegee as you can get or make. I knocked up a 55 cm wide one from an old perspex sign offcut, and I used double sided stickytape to stick the loop half of velcro under the long ends (or use felt). I riveted a bit more PVC down the centre, left to right, for a bit more rigidity. It works well for me. Previously I used some screen printing squeegees, but they had a bit much drag, theough they worked well too.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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I am about to do a wheel cover and decided to print direct to vinyl and get my banner maker to make a wheel cover, don't have to worry about vinyl peeling off.
-------------------- Neil White Sign Magic Melton, VIC Australia whitey@primus.com.au Posts: 277 | From: australia | Registered: Dec 1999
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Same as Neil ... we do our wheel covers painted (ink), vinyl lettering or laminated print direct on banner grade vinyl ... then our banner supplier makes up the finished wheel cover ... $40.
Cheap as! And also a whole lot easier to work on.
Mark, if you can't find anybody in your neck of the woods to do it, send the print Express mail to me and I'll get the cover made up for you.
Just allow 50mm for the seam around the edge and preferably mark the finished circumferance and/or let us know the size and diameter of the tyre.
See you at the OZ Letterheads 2006 ... whenever and wherever that is.
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Thanks for the tips guys, I was thinking along those lines as well. Spandex can get wheel covers has anyone used them? My client wants a black backgound i think banner vinyl maybe to glossy they were looking at flat black. My thoughts were to make a wheel cover from black banner vinyl then get a digi-print done on banner receptive vinyl then 2 pack clear the print then stick on to wheel cover.
If I was to digi print the whole thing then make it to a wheel cover can i 2 pack clear it or put some sort of protective over it. Because if it is left uncleared the print may rub of over time from cleaning/wear and tear etc.
-------------------- Mark Stokes Mark Stokes Signs Mount Barker South Australia Posts: 388 | From: Mount Barker | Registered: Jan 2005
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Get your print done straight onto banner material like they use on Taut Liners for truck sides. Then have the wheel cover made up. You can use any color material or even print the matt black background. Wear and tear will be no less than on a truck curtain so don't bother with the 2 pack clear. It will probably crack up anyway.
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I wouldn't 2-pak it at all, Mark. As they say above, get a digi print on banner material as if it was an eyeletted & roped banner, and then have it cut up & sewn into a tyre cover.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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ok bushie Ian Whitey hope i have got this, when they print on to tautliners is it a different proccess to printing normal banners, reason is I had some versacamm work done on banner material and it is rubbing off.Is there a supplier who prints on to tautliner material?
-------------------- Mark Stokes Mark Stokes Signs Mount Barker South Australia Posts: 388 | From: Mount Barker | Registered: Jan 2005
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ok Mark, I can't speak for the others, but the tautliners I've seen lately were brushed with vinyl screen ink...
I haven't looked closely at any digital ones.
The banner material our fellow digi prints onto wears well with the roland ecosol inks- I wouldn't rub it with lacquer thinner though. I also wouldn't crease it.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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