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Taylor415
10/29/2017 6:12pm
10/29/2017 6:12pm
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10/30/2017 4:42pm
So I’m looking at changing up the bike. I have factory edition shrouds, but ready for a different look. Anyone running the flo yellow plastics? I’ve seen the Acerbis, Race Tech and Polisport, but no real life pics. If you have one, please share! I’m going do do graphics on top, just want the print to match the plastics.
Jeff Crutcher (vital member and graphics designer extraordinaire) has got some flo yellow stuff done up on his page
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look at the asshat hugging his bike
Out of the plastic manufactures that make this color, which do you prefer?
But if you are ok with replacing, than its all good. Graphics although are pretty tricky to get for these. As many here use CMYK+++ printers you can't really get that Fluo colour out from print. So you either have to inlay fluo material in between or print on clear, or if you even can't print white you can do clear with inlay of white, which means they are usually a little more expensive.
Also you (or the designer - good designer) need to think of few things. If you have KTM with orange anodised parts (clamps, bolts, hubs, etc,) it will look pretty stupid. Most of these fluo plastics work the best with combination with black (silver) only. Even if you use Fluo orange on KTM with anodised orange part it looks stupid. I had one customer who wanted from me Fluo yellow plastics and graphics, and his KTM is full of orange KTM powerparts as well as the orange frame and it looks pretty bad IMHO.
So just pick up someone good and hopefully you will like it
The only place I know of personally that uses a machine like that is Lime9, but I believe they're limited in the sizes they can produce of of it. Also printing continuous tones like a photograph don't come out nearly as nice as a CMYK (inkjet) based printer.
I think in States there are few companies doing thermal transfer printing or maybe they just have the cmyk process and inlaying so spot on that there is difficult to notice
There is also better chance to get second-hand thermal printer in US than in Europe unfortunately
I also do not mention screen print as an option as this is totally out of consideration if talking about reasonable price point of our graphics..
The person doing them has done some for me before and matches the plastics almost perfectly. I feel pretty good about him getting it done right.
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