Contra Vision Architectural Glass

• Decorative and colored architectural glass: incorporate color and signature architectural features to building facades and glass cladding;
• Solar control glass: reduce solar heat gain, glare, UV radiation and air conditioning costs inside buildings;
• One-way vision privacy glass design: hide the view into buildings;
• Glass manifestation to ensure safety around glass doors, balustrades, internal partitions and glass cladding;
• Bird friendly glass to eliminate bird strikes and collisions; and
• A screen for digital projections on buildings.

Traditional methods of manufacturing decorative and colored architectural glass result in a product which distorts the see-through experience for people inside buildings. The view is either blurred, milky or has a unnatural colored tint, which can adversely impact on people’s wellbeing. See here for a comparison.

The secret of Contra Vision is being able to print a two layers of dots in ‘exact registration’, without any discernible overlap. This means the “outside facing” white or colored dots are completely hidden from the inside by a second layer of black. The black dots absorb rather than reflect light, providing a more natural black tint which is much less noticeable to the eye.

We recommend our internationally patented Contra Vision® Ceramic XR™ (toughened screen printed glass) products for economical and durable results. Exact registration printing cannot be achieved with standard digital, digital ceramic and screen printing technologies. If the dots are not printed with exact registration then the outside window can appear dirty (and it is impossible to achieve the right colors) and the view through the glass is blurred and disorientating. In particular, it is impossible to avoid “ink spatter” across the non-printed areas if digital printing methods are used, which severely undermines the see-through experience.