Re: double sided images - Duratrans?

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duratrans and similar is translucent and is the material to use. Despite Yoram’s comment, do not use glass. Just try putting a piece of 4x8’ quarter inch thick glass up as a display. The first problem is its weight, not that it is breakable. 

Furthermore, try to imagine what could happen if Abu Nidal decided to hijack your image. It won’t fly any better on glass than it would as a ferry. I’m sure engineers have other ideas, but a sheet of tempered glass would shatter into a million itty-bitty pieces while still on the runway. If you lab (if you have one) has no ideas, get in touch with duggal.com in NYC.

On Apr 27, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Randy Little wrote:

Duratrans is for direct back lighting or ambient lighting.  There are lots of options though.  You lab will have samples

On Apr 27, 2014 3:03 PM, "YGelmanPhoto" <ygelmanphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know if it's relevant in your case, but when an image is printed on glass it behaves differently, depending on the position of the light source.  It behaves as you expect, as a positive image when using reflected light, but behaves as a negative when using transmitted light.  (FWIW, I could not believe this, in my gut, until I tried it myself.)  So if you want to look at it using transmitted light, you have to print the negative on the glass.  

You'll have to be pretty clever and use some sophisticated setup if you want to have the image look the same from both sides.

Also, I recommend glass rather than some flexible material. 

Again, just my take,

  -yoram

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Turner <pictures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

quick question to those who may know; I want to print some images to be displayed on glass, so they are visible from both sides of the glass (the images will be exhibited in a greenhouse). What material should I be looking to print it on? Would it be acetate, or Duratrans? And does such a material come as self adhesive? I'm thinking of the kind of stuff you sometime see window graphics displayed on...

Any advice appreciated.

cheers,
Jonathan.

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