gabagoo
New Member
I have made this observation about the calendered vinyl we use in the shop.
For the most part when it comes to cutting vinyl I use many different brands, but usually buy full rolls of black and white from a dealer that sells General Formulations. I have always liked using this vinyl and it holds up well.
I do however have an issue with white. It's nice that it comes on the blue background, but the weeding can be tedious at times.
Have a customer that orders vinyl cut letters to put on the equipment they sell. They really like the look of cut vinyl over a printed decal.
they might order 200 or 400 at a time and most of the time they want white. The logo is just like a Bodoni typestyle that has been boldened up a bit and is only 7 letters. I generally cut quite a few extras as the weeding will always ruin quite a few. This week they ordered a smaller version about 8" wide and the height would have been around an inch. I ran a test cut in the 3ml white and it weeded well enough. After they were all cut, the weeding was far worse than I anticipated and many of them were getting ruined.
I considered recutting the whole lot but even a 2ml can present problems with a serif font like that.
I had a scrap of general Formulation Calendered digital vinyl and I ran 3 or 4 to see how they weeded. I tell you this.... I will not hesitate to use this product in the future for all white cutting as the weeding was a charm. Not one letter lifted and the processing time was cut down considerably. The only drawback is that it does not have the blue background.
So I sit here pondering how is it that 2 calendered vinyls from the same mfg can react so differently after being cut? Now the kicker is that a full roll of 48" cut vinyl is about $200.00 and the digital premium calendered from the same mfg is $159.00 for 54".
I know which white I will be using in the future..
For the most part when it comes to cutting vinyl I use many different brands, but usually buy full rolls of black and white from a dealer that sells General Formulations. I have always liked using this vinyl and it holds up well.
I do however have an issue with white. It's nice that it comes on the blue background, but the weeding can be tedious at times.
Have a customer that orders vinyl cut letters to put on the equipment they sell. They really like the look of cut vinyl over a printed decal.
they might order 200 or 400 at a time and most of the time they want white. The logo is just like a Bodoni typestyle that has been boldened up a bit and is only 7 letters. I generally cut quite a few extras as the weeding will always ruin quite a few. This week they ordered a smaller version about 8" wide and the height would have been around an inch. I ran a test cut in the 3ml white and it weeded well enough. After they were all cut, the weeding was far worse than I anticipated and many of them were getting ruined.
I considered recutting the whole lot but even a 2ml can present problems with a serif font like that.
I had a scrap of general Formulation Calendered digital vinyl and I ran 3 or 4 to see how they weeded. I tell you this.... I will not hesitate to use this product in the future for all white cutting as the weeding was a charm. Not one letter lifted and the processing time was cut down considerably. The only drawback is that it does not have the blue background.
So I sit here pondering how is it that 2 calendered vinyls from the same mfg can react so differently after being cut? Now the kicker is that a full roll of 48" cut vinyl is about $200.00 and the digital premium calendered from the same mfg is $159.00 for 54".
I know which white I will be using in the future..
