These signs were replacing non-lighted acrylic faces. The retainers for the cabinet were 1.5" so I did not worry about it. But that is a very good point and I would agree to wrap around the edges.
That's not permanant adhesive vinyl like a printable orcal 651 right? I have such a hard time with bubbles when I try and lay it down un cut onto a sign as a background for lettering.
That was printed, 3MIJ180mC vinyl with gloss laminate, it is a removable wrap CAST film. 651 is a permanent, intermediate calendared film. For bubble free try to apply wet or use an air release film to avoid that or use a "bigsqueegee.com/". For cut vinyl you can get air release in a CAST or Color Wrap film, not sure it's available in calendared intermediate vinyl.
Get yourself a cheap roll to roll laminator. Applying this way is a big pain & will save you a crazy amount of time. If you must apply this way, dont peal the full graphic back off. Line up, hinge, peel & apply a ft at a time. Doing a full panel like this wont end well... often 😉
Yea, I know there are far better and faster ways to apply this type of stuff. I'm not a "high production" shop anymore so it takes a little more time to apply but I can't justify the additional equipment and space for maybe 10 of these a year. I just charge a little extra for my time....
I suppose you could and have seen it done. I might do 10 of these "larger" signs a year, hard to justify the additional equipment and space on something that takes 15 minutes for me to apply.
You are a pro, best vinyl placing I've seen yet! Great job!
Appreciate that
Gotta love air release!! Great work!
Yea, 3M air release is pretty good.
Good job
I usually wrap mount for all external ACM jobs
Looks much better finish and no worry for delamination along edges
These signs were replacing non-lighted acrylic faces. The retainers for the cabinet were 1.5" so I did not worry about it. But that is a very good point and I would agree to wrap around the edges.
That's not permanant adhesive vinyl like a printable orcal 651 right? I have such a hard time with bubbles when I try and lay it down un cut onto a sign as a background for lettering.
That was printed, 3MIJ180mC vinyl with gloss laminate, it is a removable wrap CAST film. 651 is a permanent, intermediate calendared film. For bubble free try to apply wet or use an air release film to avoid that or use a "bigsqueegee.com/". For cut vinyl you can get air release in a CAST or Color Wrap film, not sure it's available in calendared intermediate vinyl.
Get yourself a cheap roll to roll laminator. Applying this way is a big pain & will save you a crazy amount of time. If you must apply this way, dont peal the full graphic back off. Line up, hinge, peel & apply a ft at a time. Doing a full panel like this wont end well... often 😉
Yea, I know there are far better and faster ways to apply this type of stuff. I'm not a "high production" shop anymore so it takes a little more time to apply but I can't justify the additional equipment and space for maybe 10 of these a year. I just charge a little extra for my time....
Could you have used a cold laminator to install?
I suppose you could and have seen it done. I might do 10 of these "larger" signs a year, hard to justify the additional equipment and space on something that takes 15 minutes for me to apply.
Roughly how much would a sign like this run?
Well, based on the material I used and I hand delivered them about 3 hours away, I charged $1000 for 2 the same size or about $31 a sq ft.
How do you trim the sign to size after?
I cut the ACM first to size then trim off the additional vinyl once it's applied.
omg plz tell me where i can buy that big squeegee
I've had mine for over 6 years, looks like they updated them a bit. Hers the link: www.bigsqueegee.com/order.html
@@TheSignGuy do you have a laser machine at your shop if so what brand is it
@@infinity-signs No Laser, we just have a small CNC