Printing onto Plexi..

[Lord-Data]

Anyone know how this is acomplished?

I'm guessing perhaps its special dedicated hardware, but was hoping perhaps
there is some form of transfer like system?

As an example, i've just bought this item:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7581398000&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

And it is simply a piece of printed plexi in front of a compact fluro light
source. I'm interested in creating my own, or at the VERY least, perhaps
interchangeable pieces of plexi to change the image. From inspecting the
piece I have, it appears it is printed directly onto the surface, but I'm
not sure how this happens .. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[dmm]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:21:42 +1100, "Lord-Data" <webmaster@vidguide.com> wrote:

Anyone know how this is acomplished?

I'm guessing perhaps its special dedicated hardware, but was hoping perhaps
there is some form of transfer like system?

As an example, i've just bought this item:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7581398000&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

And it is simply a piece of printed plexi in front of a compact fluro light
source. I'm interested in creating my own, or at the VERY least, perhaps
interchangeable pieces of plexi to change the image. From inspecting the
piece I have, it appears it is printed directly onto the surface, but I'm
not sure how this happens .. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Get a picture printed out onto an adhesive backed thin vinyl sheet.
This should be able to be done at a signmaker.

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2006-02-05, Lord-Data <webmaster@vidguide.com> wrote:

Anyone know how this is acomplished?

I'm guessing perhaps its special dedicated hardware, but was hoping perhaps
there is some form of transfer like system?
....
piece I have, it appears it is printed directly onto the surface, but I'm
not sure how this happens .. Anyone got any ideas?

looks like a commercial job, offset printing machine with special ink.

you could probably get something fairly similar by printing
onto an OHP transparency sheet and bonding that to a thicker piece of plastic.

Yet another option would be some sort of photographic process.

If you can examine it under 20-200x magnification that may give some clues.
the halftones unsed for mechanical printing are different to the dithering
patterns used for digital printing, and the random grain of photographic
prints.

Bye.
Jasen

 

[Poxy]

Lord-Data wrote:

Anyone know how this is acomplished?

I'm guessing perhaps its special dedicated hardware, but was hoping
perhaps there is some form of transfer like system?

As an example, i've just bought this item:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7581398000&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

And it is simply a piece of printed plexi in front of a compact fluro
light source. I'm interested in creating my own, or at the VERY
least, perhaps interchangeable pieces of plexi to change the image.
From inspecting the piece I have, it appears it is printed directly
onto the surface, but I'm not sure how this happens .. Anyone got any
ideas?

See my post in response to your other thread.