Cut vinyl on printed?

[Stacey K]

I have a customer that ordered an outdoor sign. It's printed and laminated. Now he wants to add a saying on the bottom and asked if I can just add it with cut vinyl instead of re-printing. Of course the sign is double sided and 48" x 65". I've never had this come up before, I'm thinking I should NOT add cut vinyl over the top of a laminated print...please advise. Thank you

 

[Gino]

No problem whatsoever. Just be sure its really good and squeaky clean before you put it on. Oh, and make sure you do it right the first time, cause vinyl on vinyl has the best adhesion properties of all.

 

[Stacey K]

No problem whatsoever. Just be sure its really good and squeaky clean before you put it on. Oh, and make sure you do it right the first time, cause vinyl on vinyl has the best adhesion properties of all.

That's great news for my customer! I'm glad this will work out for the customer as he's a new restaurant that had to delay opening due to Covid. Any money savings I can pass on, I'm happy to do so.

 

[bannertime]

Yup, I just want to reinforce Gino's comment that it'll be fine. We've done this to hit specific looks we couldn't print like metallic vinyl on a printed background.

 

[Stacey K]

Yup, I just want to reinforce Gino's comment that it'll be fine. We've done this to hit specific looks we couldn't print like metallic vinyl on a printed background.

That's great to know for future reference! Thank you for the input!

 

[unclebun]

It's also commonly done on car wraps when a particular sponsor decal needs to be accurately placed.

 

[OhioSigns]

Overlays are fine, just keep in mind if it is going over any design that you use should use a vinyl that is opaque and does not allow the background colors to bleed through it.