09-10-2022, 09:04 AM
Hello again,
after the trimmer had produced the spare wheel cover, I concentrated on the logo and the different ways of adding it to the cover. I thought about printing, stitching, using a sticker or adding the metal badge that was attached to the radiators once.
Printing turned out to be expensive and risky (due to the rough surface of the vinyl... No! said the owner of the printing shop...), stitching was actually possible but the shop owner was worried about the various details of the logo being lost due to necessary simplifications involved in the stitching proces), stickers... well... quite cheap but in some cases also cheap looking. After a few days one of the shops called back and told me that he liked the "problem" involved in adding a logo to the cover and he had tried an inverted print (printig the black parts onto white adhesive film instead of printing the white logo) and used a cutter to cut out the the logo. The result was fascinating. The adhesive material follows the rough surface and really looks as if the logo has been printed onto the vinyl in white. Superb.
I put the cover on the spare wheel and presented it to the public....
Regards
Frank
after the trimmer had produced the spare wheel cover, I concentrated on the logo and the different ways of adding it to the cover. I thought about printing, stitching, using a sticker or adding the metal badge that was attached to the radiators once.
Printing turned out to be expensive and risky (due to the rough surface of the vinyl... No! said the owner of the printing shop...), stitching was actually possible but the shop owner was worried about the various details of the logo being lost due to necessary simplifications involved in the stitching proces), stickers... well... quite cheap but in some cases also cheap looking. After a few days one of the shops called back and told me that he liked the "problem" involved in adding a logo to the cover and he had tried an inverted print (printig the black parts onto white adhesive film instead of printing the white logo) and used a cutter to cut out the the logo. The result was fascinating. The adhesive material follows the rough surface and really looks as if the logo has been printed onto the vinyl in white. Superb.
I put the cover on the spare wheel and presented it to the public....
Regards
Frank