Comments on: Paint On Screen – In Depth Review

By: geeqs

geeqs — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:34:24 +0000

I've had my contractors paint this on my wall over 5 times and it never looks perfect.. super frustrating

By: Lee Gabel

Lee Gabel — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:43:36 +0000

Great review Michael! I have been considering Paint on Screen for our church we are building. Unlike your review, I will have to deal with a fair amount of ambient light. I was actually planning to use their level 5 color to deal with the light issues but now I'm not so sure. Can you tell me what your experience was with lights on? The location we have been meeting has florescent lights washing onto the walls and the pictures get washed out terribly. I tried to keep light off the upper part of the front wall of the new building as much as possible but even so we will get some reflected light from the windows. I'm not sure what to use now, though I believe that with ambient light a super bright white is probably not the way to go. L

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:15:40 +0000

Thanks for that! Great addition to the review. We noticed that just the difference in the direction of the painting strokes is enough to show.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:13:41 +0000

That's the kind of texture that I had. Probably if I had to do it over I would leave it the way it was, with the flat white paint. Like I said the wall texture completely disappears if the paint is flat enough.

If you DO want some paint on screen it needs to be fairly flat. Bumps will add a "grain" to the way it looks.

By: Jay Aftab

Jay Aftab — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:49 +0000

If i can elaborate a bit more about the perfection required to apply the paint-on-screen product, i would recommend highly to be aware of the following:
1. Yes, you must get a perfect, smooth and well sanded surface prior to painting.
2. You must spray the Paint-on-screen as lightly (.415 tip) and with as low pressure as possible (I used an airless home depot small model). If you are not VERY careful, the metal flakes "sag" where a tiny bit more runs down the wall. this is not the case with most medium thickness paints. DO NOT THIN THE PRODUCT AT ALL! or this will cause more sagging.
3. I recommend sanding between coats 2-3 and 3-4 so even the tiny defects in spackling get normalized more perfectly.
4. I recommend 4-5 coats if you must do very light coats each time. This can be a problem if you still get sagging at about the 3rd coat. You must sand off any saggs as you go along and thus need at least 2 finish coats to completely cover any sanded areas along with the rest of the screen each time which is very paint wasting…

Final word of caution: Do not attempt to spray unless you have it down perfectly. Make sure you are fluent with the spitting and overspraying issues mentioned here. The metal flakes will show ANY little problem and so ruin your $200-$400 investment…

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:07:56 +0000

Loved the review… The only thing I was missing was how much texture was on the wall to begin with. My place has "smooth" walls, but my folks have this smashed stucco looking textured wall where you spray mud on the wall and then squish it to give it a textured look. It's be a little helpful to get a feel for the amount of imperfections that were on the wall first shot to help folks decide if the "smoothing" process is worth the 5-10% bump in brightness. Great Great Awesome Stellar, SCIENTIFIC review. So thank you a THOUSAND!!!!

By: neil erickson

neil erickson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:16:11 +0000

Thanks for taking the time and effort to produce this review. Excellent.I appreciate the honest reporting of your experience. I have made screens of my own and know well the challenge of seeking improvement over a basic pure flat white. I found that attempts to improve perceived contrastcolour brilliance with mica ,aluminum powder and retroreflective micro beads, have in each case produced trade offs , such as dulling and reduced gain for contrast, reduced veiwing cone and hotspotting for luminance. It sounds like POS has found a good compromise. Fortunately , lately, its the projectors that have really advanced. As for that magic screen that fixes deficiencies or perfects the experience this may always be just out of grasp.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:16:00 +0000

I had never even heard of it. Their website is http://www.goosystems.com/ What's your project? Honestly, after everything I went through on this, I think that what I had before, the ultra-white flat house paint, was fine. The paint on screen might be slightly brighter.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:56:06 +0000

Thanks for doing the review. I am working on the project of which to use, the Paint on or Goo. Do you have any experience with Goo?

By: David Sutherland

David Sutherland — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:10:10 +0000

great review Mr. Smith!