Here at Neon Party, we have a wide selection of LED neon signs designs that are made to go perfectly in your home, cafe or restaurant, fitness centre, and many other spaces. Along with the endless designs in our standard catalogue, we also specialise in creating completely unique custom LED neon signs for those who want to take their branding to the next level. Turning detailed logos and designs into vibrant neon signs can get complicated if there are many small details involved, but thanks to a technique that we use called UV printing, we’re able to capture even the most complex aspects of a design.
Let's take a look at all of the benefits of UV printing, when it’s used, and how it can elevate any design.
What is UV Printing?
Ultraviolet (UV) printing is immensely popular in dozens of industries and you probably own quite a few items around your home that have been produced with this technique. Packaging, coffee mugs and graphics on cups and glasses, graphic tee shirts, and many other items are made with this highly efficient technique, but what actually is it?
Simply put, it’s a printing method whereby a design is printed onto a medium (in this case, an LED neon sign’s acrylic backing) using high-quality printer ink and immediately cured under a UV light. The ink is environmentally friendly and produces no significant VOCs.
The result is a printed product with no bleeding of colours, coming out near picture-perfect exactly as shown in the original design. Because it’s dried immediately, it can be shipped immediately and can accelerate the production process which also helps keep production costs low and thus your product is kept affordable.
Naturally, this printing technique is just perfect for certain types of LED neon lights where the designs are more complex than our many products on offer, specifically custom LED neon signs with intricate graphic designs.
Why Some LED Neon Signs Don’t Need UV Printing and Why Others Do
All of the signs we manufacture for our customers in the UK are handcrafted and shaped to the closest possible specifications provided. Because we use highly flexible silicone and acrylic tubing, we’re able to recreate simple designs such as lovely shapes and letters in various fonts.
While this tubing is quite flexible, some designs are simply too complex to be made using only the LED tubing. In brief, if it’s got text, simple shapes or designs, traditional methods usually work. For everything else, that’s where UV printing comes in.
If you’re sending us a logo or other graphic with quite a bit of fine detail, UV printing will reproduce all of the detail and vibrancy you’d expect.
How to Print Stunning, Custom Neon Signs with UV Printing Methods
UV printing is ideal for more than just recreating complex logos and graphics. It can be used to replicate the exact colours of your logo design, whereas our standard neon signs typically come in 24 colours. The acrylic backing will show the exact colour. The colours or designs printed on the acrylic backing, paired with the vibrant LED neon tubing work together beautifully to create a stunning LED neon sign.
Moreover, text or details too small to be replicated with handcrafted tubing can be replicated with UV printing. All in all, UV printing is perhaps the best way to get your exact design conveyed into an LED neon sign.
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