Pressing with the plastic on!

[Justin]

So I printed a couple of metal clock faces tonight, nothing new there. Only the second I forgot to remove the plastic protection cover, doh!

I remember a long while ago discussing this with coasters and some members said that they still printed ok.

Low and behold my metal printed identically to the first one! I guess it's something to do with the ink turning to a gas and it finds its way through the plastic?

[Mattie]

I've done this quite a few times with phone cases, at first I was reprinting before sending them out to customer then one day I printed on for myself on purpose and it lasted the whole 8 month I used the case before changing design.

I agree the gas must somehow get through the plastic. Only thing is it made the plastic hard to get off the insert lol

[pisquee]

Yeah, we noticed this when we first started doing phone cases, that they do print OK, although a bit more blurred, but the main problem was getting the now baked on plastic film off - cue kitchen and various cleaning fluids moment!

[Renniwano]

I have done that many a time with pet ID tags and keyring inserts.. totally forgotten and then when they press blurry, know exactly what I have done.. they never seem as crisp