We do a lot of personalised blinds for our wedding services and usually print to standard papers. I'd like to offer our customers the blind as a souvenir and have it printed to the traditional (or next best thing) wax paper style used in bus blinds traditionally.

I know there are a few companies out there that specialise in bus blinds, however due to the small scale of the order and the margins I'd like to be able to do this in house.

Does anyone know of the paper type or code that would be best to use?

Many thanks

The type of paper used commercially is Tyvek. It is a generic name for a range of papers ranging from banknotes to roof felting.

It's designed to be untearable which is how it became applied for bus blinds.

Rolls cost about £100
But not all inks will adhere and remain fast on this material. What does work is rather expensive and scuppered a similar business plan some time ago.

The linen method is far more complex. Opaque Paper bonded to linen and screen printed. They degrade with age so originals need to be handles with care.

The traditional blinds were screen printed paper, This was then dried and wjhen dry put into racks by name or number.
When required, the pieces were taken from the racks and glued to a continuous roll of linen on a slowly turning roll, then it was taken off and cut to length. The seams for the wires were machine stitched on each blind end.

My bus number (if any): RTL 960, RM 1585, RMC 1486 and several RTs

How do you print to standard paper? You must have an enormous printer?

My bus number (if any): RMs 238, 471 & 2213. GS17