Numerous retail stores are refusing to put an adhesive promotional decals on their store windows due to the likely trouble of taking off the sticky label when they decide to get rid of it or change it. Companies that use window sticker labels to promote their goods with retail outlets might be prudent to think about hiring a decal printer that prints window cling ads to make their next marketing decal as static window clings.
This kind of cling has been in use for many years, and sticker makers have been printing static clings for many years as well, so we're not really introducing anything new here, but static graphics for windows may be new to you, so if you just require a quotation click here, but if you want to learn a bit more about this, read on.
What Window Cling Film is & How They on Glass and other Smooth Surfaces
Window Cling Film or vinyl for window graphics is made from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. For the most part, PVC sheets are more rigid than the cling films, but by putting extra fluid plasticizers into the PVC in its liquid state makes a flexible, smooth vinyl substance with an unusually soft finish. This cling film is very smooth and pliable, so it will stick to smooth, solid surfaces - mainly to glass. It also is excellent for printing, hence static window clings - double-sided clings are also available, though not digitally printed at this time.
Window cling material can also be die-cut, and are utilized for numerous diverse usages, such as to announce a happening, as "spirit" stickers for schools, colleges, and universities on the back window of vehicles, as oil & lube service decals on the front windshield of cars, and even as window signs in stores. Recently, one of our patrons, a drug company, ordered window cling film printed to static clings that were 2-sided and 36? x 24? - in actuality a big window cling poster.
Where Not To Use Window Cling Films In Making Static Window Clings
The cling material is an exceptional invention for production of non-adhesive window graphics, but are there locations where they can't or shouldn't be adhered, other than self-evident places where there isn't glass? The quick response is "of course." Window graphic film isn't supposed to be used for making static window ads that you'd situate on the exterior of an automobile. Because it is easy to remove, window non-adhesive graphics also are carried away rather easily if you're cruising along on a highway.
Naturally, this type of film can be utilized for static graphics on items other than glass. It can be used on acrylic (a variety of displays, sun glasses, frames, etc.) and other diverse smooth plastics such as polycarbonate, glossy furniture, kitchen ware, smooth metal surfaces, typically painted, and other stuff, providing it's exceptionally smooth and flat.
As I affirmed near the beginning of this editorial, one of the larger usages for window non-adhesive film is for static window cling graphic ads, principally in a retail setting, although they may also be utilized in many other ways as well, as discussed above. They can be used as way-finding stickers on doors directing you to an exit or fire extinguisher, but primarily window cling films are still used for printing static window graphics for merchandise and event promos, political campaigns, and school spirit decals on the back window or side windows of autos, trucks, and SUV's.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barry Brown has been in the Sign, Banner, Decal and Display Business for over 20 years. It isn't what he thought he'd do with his life, but he says he knows too much now to do anything else!
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