lexan signs paint or vinyl?

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Hello, For my first paying job I am going to be making some small lexan signs 8"x10". The customer would like the lettering on the backside, my original plan was to do 2 layers of vinyl black letters with a yellow background. It sounds simple enough but when I tried to do this I had a difficult time getting the yellow backing to stick tight against the edge of the letters leaving a shadow effect around the letters when looking at it from the front. How can I prevent this?

My second idea was to do a punch through background but it is difficult to line up and I am woried about the letters shrinking.

Now I am thinking abouting cutting out a mask and painting them with Krylon fusion and possibly applying a layer of vinyl on the backside on top of the paint.

Any suggestions on which might be the best way to go? If I use vinyl would oracal 651 still look good after say 5 years? Anybody use the krylon that may have suggestions or information on it's durability?

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

Shane

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Is it 8"x10" or 8'x10'...

The smaller one you can do the registration mark method, but on the big one i would just lay each one separate wet.  i always do a wet install on big sign faces!