Need Help Vinyl That Any Pen Can Be Used On

[KH]

hi - for my customer i need to make some vinyl decals/stickers that can be written on with any pen. Most of the vinyls I have you can only use a sharpie or the like, but they need to be any ball point or gel pen imaginable. Matte preferred. Any suggestions? I'm using a Versacamm.

Edit - they probably won't be laminated. Very short term use being placed onto other paper products.

 

[GaSouthpaw]

Versacamm solvent? As in, you're going to laminate them? I'd suggest testing the laminate- not the vinyl. The matte laminate you use all the time might very well work just fine.

 

[KH]

Thanks GASouthPaw. These probably won't be laminated. Very short term use going onto other paper products.

 

[boxerbay]

if the vinyl is matte you should be ok with ball point pen. GEL no. it wont dry and will smear.

 

[shoresigns]

Matte is the key, I think. Ballpoint pens work on most of our matte materials. Notable exception is our matte laminate, so we don't laminate anything that needs to be written on.

 

[Dallas225]

Use a oraguard 210 matte lam - we use it for HEavy duty service decals on orajet 3651 and everyone loves them - we sell them to several fleets and everything writes on them and they hold up awesome


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[Dallas225]

If no lam is required use a 3m IJ35 matte vinyl - thick enough to stick without lam and can be written on easily as well


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