Pan face sign with ghosting.

[Banners Signs Etc.]

It has severe ghosting from previous vinyl lettering. The current owner wants to remove old vinyl and put a new full color face on it.

Should we use translucent vinyl or use regular grey backed print vinyl?

I'm worried the ghosted lettering will show through with translucent, but their background is black so I fear the light won't shine through the regular vinyl.

thoughts?

 

[J Hill Designs]

explain that, without paying for a new face, ghosting may be visible.

it is what it is

if you need light to get through, DONT use grey backed vinyl

 

[Banners Signs Etc.]

One of those get what you pay for kind of deals..

 

[Marlene]

by full color, do you mean a colored background with white letters? if so, you could use an opaque background for the color and the only old image that would show would be thru the letters. they would need to know the colored part would look black at night.

 

[rjssigns]

Recently had a client that dropped off old panels to reuse. Told him it was cheaper and safer than paying me to strip and clean the old stuff.

He told me to go ahead with new panels. Funny thing when we loaded the old panels onto his truck he touched a corner and it fell off.

He just looked at me, smiled then said he was happy I "forced" him into it. LOL

 

[MikePro]

if the ghosting is REALLY bad, GooGone/RapidRemover scrub may "soften" some of the really hard/dark lines, but I've been known to "reface" the panel with white trans. vinyl before applying my graphics. Makes the panel look brand-new in the daylight and ghosting is barely noticeable when lit at night, without the pricetag of a new panel.
(or, if you PRINT the graphic on white-trans... then even-BETTER!)

however, sometimes prepping the panel (especially in this way) exceeds the cost of a new panel in the first-place.
Regardless, after explaining this to a client, it makes the options more clear to either: pay more or expect-less.