Cut vinyl on clear static cling?

[Signed Out]

Have a customer wanting clear static clings to advertise sales on there storefront windows. They want to be able to take them down and re use them. I don't think prints on clear material look good at all in windows and shy away from it. But I thought it might work if we overlaid opaque cut vinyl graphics on clear static cling, I think that would look much better. Anybody ever do them this way? How did they work? My other concern is that they are quite large for static clings, 5'x3'. Do you think an inexperienced customer would be able to apply and remove and re apply this size static cling?

Thanks,

 

[sfr table hockey]

I only tried once to letter cling film and in time the vinyl will shrink and thus cause the cling to buckle and not lay flat.

I have printed on clear with a double strike black and they show up well in the day but when the inside is lit up and outside is dark, they will not show as well.

The one location has a light colored blind that they pull down just so it is lower than the printed cling and makes it easy to see and read. Looks just like cut black lettering but they still can remove and reuse.

 

[BigfishDM]

No I wouldn't recommend doing that application like that, big static clings have a bad habit of not being able to stay up when they are that big. It would be best to use a low tack window adhesive instead of cling, but either way installing a 5' graphic is not easy for a rookie.

 

[GoodPeopleFlags]

I agree that you shouldn't do it. I also tried it and the vinyl shrank. What if they used coroplast or styrene with grommets in the corners and they hung them in the windows with suction cups?

 

[nikdoobs]

Do you have a machine that prints white ink? 3m offers a changeable window graphic material...

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediaw...uZgVs6EVs6E666666--&fn=IJ61_LR_2011-11-21.pdf

 

[Signed Out]

Thanks for the replies. No white ink here, roland xj540. For those who tried cut vinyl on static cling, was it cheap calendared vinyl, high performance calendared or cast? Think cast would not shrink? Going to explain the drawbacks to the customer and suggest coro or foamboard signs to hang in the window instead. She seems pretty set on static clings though.

 

[MikePro]

vinyl on cling only works if you have a large field of blank cling around the graphic.
the portions of the cling with vinyl won't stick, but the perimeter of your static cling should hold everything up just fine.

 

[GoodPeopleFlags]

She may be set on it but I bet she's never installed them. It's going to be alot harder than she thinks. But, if she won't do it any other way, then I would recommend outsourcing them to someone who can print them the way they should be printed. I promise that putting vinyl on cling will be nothing but a big problem.