Anyone ever printed out a white logo on surfboard paper (via inkjet) and lammed it in over dark painted foam?
EDIT: Also curious what helps seal the ink from bleeding during lamination. I’m thinking a simple rattle can matte clear; lightly dust it over the print?
I have printed on regular paper painted the back white and put it over colored boards. I use Epson pigment based inks. You can matte seal if you want. It is just a little tricky to laminate gotta make sure no air under paper.
problem with this is my logo is cursive, and I need the rice paper to dissolve and the white cursive print to show.
This will do it…http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Pro/SeriesStylusProWT7900/Overview.do. My way is a little cheaper.
If your printer can print out white ink then make sure you’re using the thicker grade rice paper and not the super thin synthetic. Since you aren’t screening your logo you’ll want the paper to absorb as much of the white ink as possible. Yeah, you got it, a simple clear acrylic matte dusting will seal the deal. Like always, do a test run on a small sample so you know for sure that the ink you’re using won’t run since most home printer inks do tend to run when they’re laid on thick and saturated with resin. Good luck!
Hi VAESKE-
If you can’t get it worked out… We have a service that now prints white along with all the colors, they work just like screen printed lams. The cost is $40 for a 24"x36" sheet. All we need is good artwork, preferrably ai but pdf will work too.
Good luck.
Brad
A girl recently ordered a fish from me as a 10 year wedding anniversary present for her husband. She wanted me to laminate this logo on the deck (actually a photo of the girl that had been photoshopped to look like those 1950s pin-ups):
So I printed it on rice paper and then laminated it. Just didn’t think about the stringer showing through…
Of course, the girl got mad at it and asked me to make that stringer disappear… That was easier to say than to do. Well, fortune favors the brave (or so they say) so I went at it with the sander. The challenge was to grind out one layer of 4 oz and the laminate without hitting the tinted cloth patch underneath. God was good to me this day and I pulled it out OK:
Then I painted the back of a rice paper sheet with white acrylic and printed the logo again on the other side. Just to be sure, I added some white acrylic right over the stringer (after pointing out the exact length of the laminate). Of course, I also had to cut around the picture very carefully so that no white would appear:
In the end, it turned out fine. The girl was happy, her man was even happier. And (cherry on the cake) he really liked the board from the first time he put it into the water…
cool thanks eveyone. Nice work Balsa, appreciate the tips.
BALSA, WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE SAVE ! Very well done.
Thank you so much, Bill. Doing my best to correctly fix all the mistakes I make…
You can have a paint mask made at any vinyl sign shop and use it to spray your lettering on the sanded hotcoat.
I did this board for CocaCola as a wall hanger for their corporate office in Irvine.
The blank was painted black.The board was then glassed and sanded.
I created the art for the paint mask in Adobe Illustrator from a vector PDF supplied by CocaCola which I then cut on my vinyl cutter.
I applied the PM to the deck of board and sprayed the design with acrylic paint.
Let the paint dry and then peeled the PM off revealing the finished art.
The board was then glossed and polished.
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Killer, Atomized. Nice work.
Atomized knows what’s up.
My buddy Rat just brought me two boards for Chanel.
One solid black pigment with a Chanel logo on rice paper.
Laminate did not go clear. ( looked like a hallow ) had to paint board black after taping off logo.
Would have been better to paint on hot-coat.
Solid white board (pigment) laminate was done with blue resin. Same problem.
Had to paint board white.
Would have been better to paint on hot-coat.
Balsa,
next time just paint stringer white before placing laminate.
I too am not a fan of the stringer going through center of the artwork. Nice save!
Dark colors and laminates don’t always look good.
Yeah Barry, these white logos are going on my 16’ flatwater prone. Carbon under, carbon nose and paddle well. Gonna blackout the board with black pigment. I picked up some adhesive-backed vinyl (the kind that goes into kitchen drawers; going to send it through my inkject and knife-out the first stencils by hand, shoot the logos after the hot coat, peel off the vinyl and gloss the top, add some hydro turf.
Best bet is screened if possible. If you have a local screenprinter I would see about getting a screen burned if your logo is single color.
Then just print them yourself. Waterbased ink and air drying. Pretty simple.
The digital printed rice paper ones i have seen dont go opaque they still have a slight translucence to them. On black you would get a really light grey, I did one on Red. it looked slightly pink.
Check out Boardlams.com for logos and such. Good pricing on big sheets as well as small stuff.
Thanks Matt, noted.
