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We did some channel letter faces waaaay back that lighted black at night. That vinyl had holes in it like window perf best I remember, but that was in the 90s, so I have no idea where we got it.
In 20 years in the business I've never had a need for black translucent vinyl that lights black at night. In the early days if there was black copy on a pan face or something I'd use black trans, but then just started using high performance black because it was always on hand.
Now we're working...
^ Same. Never used anything but BS. Does this mean you won't be able to combine 2-3 small BS to make larger sizes like your were planning to do with aluminum? That was intriguing.
Materials * markup + time * shop rate(s).
Price guides are good for some things, but you'll spend all day trying to calculate how much to charge for each individual 3" letter, 6" letter, etc, like some of them ask you to do.
I remember quite a few threads about this over the last few years. Do a search of posts by artbot; seems like he participated in many/most of them. I don't have the time right now or I'd find them for you. Maybe later tonight.
I mostly used it on updating many 16" x 45" information panels on 4' x 4' real estate signs. Somewhere along the line, their vinyl became increasingly hard to release from the liner using a big squeegee, so I went back to Oracal. Not sure how you'd fair with your mounter. I'd get a roll and see...
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