Painting awning surfaces

[CentralSigns]

I have a customer that wants his awning painted and I am not sure what to use. He wants it to last 2-3 years and wants me to apply vinyl lettering to it. Has anyone any experience with this. I was thinking of using 1-shot for the paint.

 

[iSign]

is it sunbrella? ...or vinyl?

I would look to Naz-Dar screenprinting inks, made for flexibility in garment printing. I've used 1-shot to paint lettering on sunbrella, but not the whole awning.

If it's a vinyl awning, maybe vinyl screen ink will work, but also, maybe you could wrap the background color with vinyl... faster, cheaper & with a more (or at least equal) consistency of color hue & intensity

 

[CentralSigns]

Thanks i-Sign. It is vinyl, like the vinyl idea. I'll have to spot test. He was cheap though paint fits his budget better.

 

[CentralSigns]

Any more ideas.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

Like iSign said....use NAZDAR vinyl screen ink thinned down. InkDezyne's Modified Acrylic works very well too. I've done literally hundreds of awnings with it.

 

[Mosh]

If it is vinyl like a cooley material we just use vinyl.

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

Vinyl can be painted with Ronan's Aquacoat ... clean well ..I use purple stuff for soap ..rinse well..
Aquacoat is a water base sign lettering paint and is meant for vinyl sticks well and flexible