New Lower Static Application Film

Introducing AT60n Clear Choice®  

Clear application films are prone to static. Static in any film can make handling difficult, whether the user is laminating the tape to cut vinyl graphics or performing a vinyl application. RTape’s new AT60n Clear Choice®   application film features a polypropylene backing embossed on one side. The embossing allows for easier unwind, minimizing the generation of static charge and the problems it causes.

Lower static reduces problems when laminating the film to the graphic or performing an application.

 

The new AT60n application film also features a versatile and  forgiving  acrylic adhesive system. The medium tack adhesive is designed for clean pick up and transfer of a wide variety of cast or calendered vinyl. If the tape accidentally folds on itself and adhesive touches adhesive, AT60n Clear Choice® film pulls apart easily, with no adhesive delamination. Better anchorage of the adhesive to the film facestock, improves the film’s water resistance, when the tape is used in wet applications.

During the application of multiple color overlays, the exceptional clarity of the AT60n polypropylene film aids precise registration of multi-color graphics. The rigid polypropylene facestock minimizes stretching, which prevents misalignment of graphics during application.  

AT60n is also well-suited for making ready-to-apply (RTA) graphics. Coated with a stable and plasticizer-resistant acrylic adhesive, AT60n will not build in adhesion when applied to vinyl graphics, nor will the adhesive yellow or discolor. Following extended periods of storage, removal of AT60n from applied graphics is never a problem. When shipping rolled RTA graphics the rigid film facestock lays flat to the exposed release liners of cut vinyl graphics and resists curling and tunneling.

 

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To contact Jim Hingst, write him at hingstjim@gmail.com or at Jim Hingst, PO Box 671, Chesterton, IN 46304 USA. For immediate assistance, call RTape at 1-800-440-1250 or 908-753-5570. Jim Hingst is the author of VinylSignTechniques, which is available at sign supply distributors and at Amazon. 

 

 

 

In Vinyl Sign Techniques, R Tape Business Development Manager, Jim Hingst, provides a comprehensive guide to the vinyl graphics business.  Built around his firsthand experiences working for major fleet graphics screen printers and pressure sensitive manufacturers, Hingst offers a perspective on the vinyl business that thoroughly covers sales and marketing, materials, fabrication, and  installation and removal of vinyl products of all kinds.

 

By compiling information from 54 of Hingst’s columns, Vinyl Sign Techniques has something for everybody in the vinyl graphics business. In his book, Hingst provides ideas and techniques for graphics fabricators and  installers along with advice for executives and salespeople that will result in higher sales and profits.  

 

Hingst has over thirty years experience in the Graphics Arts market. His career includes a range of activities including product development, estimating,  production planning, vinyl application, sales and marketing. Hingst has contributed more than 150 articles to many of the leading publications in the sign industry, such as SignCraft and Signs Canada. Currently, he writes a column for Sign Builder Illustrated , called “Hingst’s Sign Post”. For five years, he wrote the “Vinyl Graphics” column in Signs of the Times. 

 

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