UV capable printing service search

[Le Chuck]

My cart is so far ahead of my horse it can't be seen. 

I'm thinking about doing a TRON micro build because my SW will be lonely.  I've seen some UV visible LED strips that come in 4 inch lengths so I should be able to fluoresce the CP.  Now, If I'm going to go through all that trouble I should get the art printed so that the lines pop in the black light and might as well do the whole thing.  All the art fits on a legal size piece of paper so anybody know where I can get UV printing done?  I've searched around a bit but haven't come up with anything that really fits the bill of printing multicolor fluorescent inks on a small scale.       

[Los Abrazos Rotos]

I must have asked 50 UK print shops about this for my discs of tron cab - I had no success.   

[Le Chuck]

Well that's one country down.   

[Los Abrazos Rotos]

Haha, yup...  I think it just works out to be too expensive unless you do a large run of prints.  Or something.

[rikitiki]

yeah your stuff will be proably too small and expensive to screenprint.
but there was a company on ebay doing "custom" blacklight poster prints.
couldnt find the link so I know there out there. fairly cheap and no min.
1 poster 11x17 was like $20

on another note I used these blacklight strips in my video pinball 2.0
and they can be cut down even small then 4" 

[Mysterioii]

I wonder if some of the inks/materials might be UV reactive even if they're not marketed as such.  A lot of white things fluoresce brightly under UV by default... if you walk into a dark room with a blacklight sometimes you can be surprised by what will fluoresce.  Of course, you want guaranteed results and not just the hope that it'll look good.  Depending on the level of detail you want, maybe you could get someone with a steady hand and an artistic predisposition to paint some highlights on your design after you get it printed and applied?

[Le Chuck]

I wonder if some of the inks/materials might be UV reactive even if they're not marketed as such.  A lot of white things fluoresce brightly under UV by default... if you walk into a dark room with a blacklight sometimes you can be surprised by what will fluoresce.  Of course, you want guaranteed results and not just the hope that it'll look good.  Depending on the level of detail you want, maybe you could get someone with a steady hand and an artistic predisposition to paint some highlights on your design after you get it printed and applied?

That's good advice.  I'll get take a battery powered black light to kinkos and use it on their sample printing pages and see what pops.  As for hand painting, 1:6 scale TRON art is going to be one hell of a pin striping nightmare. 

yeah your stuff will be proably too small and expensive to screenprint.
but there was a company on ebay doing "custom" blacklight poster prints.
couldnt find the link so I know there out there. fairly cheap and no min.
1 poster 11x17 was like $20

on another note I used these blacklight strips in my video pinball 2.0
and they can be cut down even small then 4" 

I'll start looking, that would be a pretty good solution and a great price as all my art fits on at most two 11x17s

Good news on the strip lighting giving the desired effect.  I'm getting more and more confident about this. 

[Mysterioii]

wonder if you could get a design printed on a clear (or mostly clear, i.e. "frosted") material of some sort.  Then maybe you could leave certain areas of your design blank, and paint the entire surface underneath with UV reactive paint.  Apply your artwork over the top of it and everything beneath the parts you left clear would glow...