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Screen printed sign help

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rbforrest

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Hi all,
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

We are a screen printing, vinyl, and embroidery shop. I have a customer that wants us to start making signs for his fencing installations. He is currently using a 15"x4" .125" (3mm) plastic sign with one color screen printed. The plastic has a somewhat rough finish which he wants to keep.

My questions are:

1. What type of plastic comes with the rough finish?
2. Where can I get the plastic in large sheets? I plan to print a sheet of 5 - 12"x4" signs at a time then cut them.
3. What type of ink should I use? I'm assuming a Nazdar air dry of some sort.
4. Is there a coating I can put on it to make the sign last longer?
5. I know this is a loaded question but any suggestions as to how I go about pricing an order like this would be helpful. It will be a repeat order of about 500 pieces a month so I don't want to over, or under, bid on it.

Thanks again!!!
 
petepaz

petepaz

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is the material textured and printed from the backside?
we have a few fence customers but we screen their signs on alum.
you type could be a textured polycarbonate. if so this would be screened from the back side. and you could use a nazdar ink but it would probably be a uv ink not air dried.
and you could get the material from a few places peidmont plastics, saati, tekra
 
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rbforrest

New Member
petepaz said:
is the material textured and printed from the backside?
we have a few fence customers but we screen their signs on alum.
you type could be a textured polycarbonate. if so this would be screened from the back side. and you could use a nazdar ink but it would probably be a uv ink not air dried.
and you could get the material from a few places peidmont plastics, saati, tekra
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Thanks for the quick reply!

The material is definitely textured, albeit very lightly, and printed from the textured side. I cut it about 1/2 way through with a carpet knife and snapped it the rest of the way.

Thanks for the supplier heads up. Piedmont actually has a location just south of me in Daytona.
 
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