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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Shop Talk (Aug '14): Automotive Grade Coatings for Signs

Signshop: Sign manufacturers are very interested in color, durability, and process improvement in their coatings systems. These are also the three pillars that automotive coatings were built upon. Let’s examine why you might choose automotive coatings for your sign manufacturing line.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Its interesting to thing about the benefits of using Automotive paint for sign and display making, as well as the benefits to using it in a theatrical sense.

As the article mentions, automotive paints have to be durable and color true, allowing for color matching even years after application.

We rarely think much about paints and color matching in theatre. We often just mix up our paints and not worry about matching in the future. I don’t know how paints for trade shows and amusement parks typically work, but I would assume that they are often concerned about color being true to the brand and durable, as well as being color that are available without mixing, even years into the future.

Scenic paint typically comes in pretty stable colors, but is often mixed with other colors to achieve the look that is desired. Perhaps we should find a way to standardize the measure and mixing technique of these paints so they have a color stability similar to automotive paints.