‘Sign Printing’ Articles at Visigraph https://www.visigraph.com Signs, Banners, Decals and Displays Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:16:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Decent Plastic Sign Materials To Get at a Reasonable Price https://www.visigraph.com/signs/sign-prints/ https://www.visigraph.com/signs/sign-prints/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:28:56 +0000 http://www.visigraph.com/?p=1268 In my last post, I gave you a thumbnail sketch of what it takes for companies that make sign prints using the screen printing process. This time I will deal more specifically with the various types.

There is a specific ink set for screen printing plastic displays, as there is for vinyl, glass, or wood items. If you’re going to make screen-printed pvc or plastic yard graphic signage, you’d need to contact your ink supplier to ask what type of ink is best for the various materials you’ll be using in the production process. Two major ink brands we’ve used in the past are Naz-Dar™ and Sericol™,

Keep Reading →]]> https://www.visigraph.com/signs/sign-prints/feed/ 0 How the Sign and the Printing Industry Improved Each Other https://www.visigraph.com/signs/sign-makers-a-history-of-signs-and-printing-part-5/ https://www.visigraph.com/signs/sign-makers-a-history-of-signs-and-printing-part-5/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:04:24 +0000 http://www.visigraph.com/signs-banners-decals-blog/?p=137 In this final article on the history of signs and printing, I’ll show how the two came to be combined in such a way as to make the two categories as one. Flexography, offset printing, and lithography have all been magically combined into a new category (although the old categories have not completely disappeared) called digital imprinting.

Well, I thought I would be done with this series last time on signs and printing, and I did actually get into the late 20th century, but I didn’t really get to where they and makers crossed paths.

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