The optical clear lamianates – the invisible protection

What does “crystal-clear” actually mean? The crystal-clear refers to the line of transparent foils produced in Ikonos factory. These products characterize with superb transparency. This property is especially important for laminates. Certainly, it is also very wanted feature for many kinds of other applications. All crystal-clear laminates work effectively as the invisible protection.

What is the difference between transparent and translucent foil? Both of the materials let the light to pass through it. However, there is a big difference for the visual effect between the two. The transparent films serve mostly for the protection of a printed surface. On the other hand, the translucent adds an additional effect and therefore they are for completely different purposes by design.

As always the choice of material is determined by the original design and general concept. With transparent media it is really simple. Their most important property is allowing to see freely through them. The better product – the lower visibility distortion. With the high-quality foil it is practically unnoticeable after application.

The print is also an option on transparent, self-adhesive films. The advantage of this solution is that when we use glass surface as our base surface we can live it fully transparent outside printed area.

Large Format Printing materials such as Ikonos Profifcoat BAM 130 SM is a coated polyester which allows to illuminate images from behind. It can be used for any back-light applications, including city-lights and light-boxes, as well as all displays and expo-lightning systems. Excellent image quality, very good ink absorption, fantastic saturation and contrast.

Properly made backlighted images will always look great. The advertisements of this kind work great on bus stops, train and subway stations and shop fronts.