How to apply our vinyl stickers.
Our vinyl stickers can be applied dry or wet.
Small stickers are normally applied dry.
Just peel them off the sheet and stick them down. To apply wet, see
below*
Clear stickers may be applied wet. The advantage is that there will
be no air bubbles and they dry crystal clear.
Larger stickers, whether white or
clear are better and more easily applied wet.
How to apply our vinyl stickers
wet:
ie say a 600x600mm sticker on Perspex
1/ Mix up a solution. Half fill a 2 litre plastic 'Coke' bottle
with cold tap water. Add a small squirt of Fairy dish washing up
liquid (or similar). Shake the bottle really hard, so that the water
goes slightly green and the top half of the bottle is filled with
suds.
2/ Put the Perspex on a bench.
Place the sticker face down on the Perspex. Peel the backing sheet
away, leaving the adhesive on the sticker exposed. Pour the solution
on to the adhesive. Work it in to the adhesive using your fingers
and palm of your hand. The wetter the better.
3/ Turn the sticker over on to
the Perspex. Pour more of the solution on to the face of the print.
Using the palm of your hand and fingers gently ease as much of the
fluid that's on the adhesive side, out to the edges, so that the
sticker lays flat.
4/ Place the backing sheet on
to the face of the print. Use a squeegee (that we can supply) to
squeeze the remaining fluid out, working from the centre.
5/ Dry the surface with a
towel. Be careful not to damage the face of the print.
* To
apply smaller stickers, pour some of the fluid into a tray and dip
the sticker into it.
When the print dries out, the
adhesion will be strong, just as if it had been applied dry. |