i need your help! please?

[michael dazzo]

I'm trying to make a cardboard window out of plastic! so you can see throw it! like realistic glass I tried plastic sheet protectors but it won't work well it bleedes on my figures and smears all over! I don't know what else to do! I need your help!

[Sakrison]

The only way to print on clear plastic with an inkjet or laser printer is to use Transparency slide sheets. They have a coating on one side that accepts the ink. Try your local office supply store. (You might have to buy a pack of them.)

Here's a pack of 6 sheets from Jo-Ann Fabrics:
Computer-Printable Transparent Plastic Sheets | Jo-Ann

[airdave]

I'm guessing you are trying to make a "tinted" window.
Like a dark windshield that you can't really see through?

Heres two ideas:

Print your windshield (as in your picture) and then lay some plastic over top and cut out the clear windshield.
Now mount the paper windshield behind the clear one.
It won't be transparent, but it wil look like a tinted window.

Another option is paint the inside of the clear windshield.
This is actually how the first window tints were done.
You would need to use an airbrush for best effect, but you could try a spraycan.
Spray a black or dark colour as even as possible across the inside of your plastic part.
Probably best to cut it out first, that way you won't smudge or scratch.
Any type of enamel will stick to the plastic.
I used to black out plastic model car windows this way.

One more idea...go to a local shop that tints car windows.
In their garbage will be thousands of pieces of excess window tint film.

Just ask for a few small pieces out of their waste.
Find a piece big enough and use it to cut out a windshield!

[John Bowden]

would gluing some of the colorful cellophane Christmas wraps to your clear plastic work......... that is if you could find the particular color you want?

[eric_son]

Originally Posted by Sakrison

The only way to print on clear plastic with an inkjet or laser printer is to use Transparency slide sheets. They have a coating on one side that accepts the ink. Try your local office supply store. (You might have to buy a pack of them.)

Here's a pack of 6 sheets from Jo-Ann Fabrics:
Computer-Printable Transparent Plastic Sheets | Jo-Ann

I also think that Acetate should be the ideal solution. But you'll have to invest in a pack.

I've another idea --- some papers become translucent if they get smudged in oil. You can try printing on that kind of paper. Then laminate it with clear tape. Then smudge the back side with some oil to make it translucent.
The oil should not smear the printer ink since it's water based. But it might make the colors a bit darker though.

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by airdave

One more idea...go to a local shop that tints car windows.
In their garbage will be thousands of pieces of excess window tint film.

Just ask for a few small pieces out of their waste.
Find a piece big enough and use it to cut out a windshield!

Now there's an idea ... I might live half way up a mountain but I know several local guys who do such things. Come to think of it, there's bound to be some left over bits in the shed from when I did the Jag.

I do also have some one way mirror film for the conservatory windows that's never likely to be used. I'll have to experiment, but I'm sure that'll be too thin and floppy to be of use ... unless it is applied to some clear plastic sheet first.

[Darwin]

One comment on using transparency film with an inkjet printer....you need to be using pigment ink, not dye ink.

[michael dazzo]

I went to staples and looked around but no use I didn't find it what you asked me to look for and failed again but I found something else to try out and hope and pray it works out wish me luck guys!

[michael dazzo]

finally! I got something that did what I wanted to do a plastic see throw window for my special GT model Improvements! for the year 2016! and here is the living prof! I got it from this?

[michael dazzo]

thank's for the help out you guys and girls are cool