cutting small objects with plotter

[SIGNTIME]

anyone have any tips or tricks to cutting small objects without the vinyl lifting i am having no luck with this i have my speed all the way up and that seems to help but not much.

roland gx500

 

[Mosh]

Yeah, print it! Back when I did alot more cut stuff I would put in a new blade, less weight, and slower speed. Also sometime I would duplicate the object so it cut twice and then really used alot less weight.

What material, the 3M with the plastic liner works best for small stuff.

JUST PRINT IT!!!

 

[petepaz]

for me i have found the slow speed helps more. what size object/text are you trying to cut?
i have found we can't go much less then 3/8 to 1/2 on our roland. on my gerber plotter we can get to 1/4

 

[SIGNTIME]

7125 I would love to print it but my customer wants it cut the last one we did was printed with a white offset around it and it looked pretty good and wasnt noticable from 10ft away but he said he would pay the extra 100 bucks to have it cut vinyl

 

[J Hill Designs]

slow speed, fresh blade, perfect depth, and you will still be pulling your hair out.

 

[SIGNTIME]

here is whats being cut ....(note: logo supplied by customer and doesn't want to change it) the width of the L in "LLC" is 3/16 to help get a better perspective

 

[jfiscus]

How Big? It could be printed on clear; that's what I would do.

The slower the speed and sharper the blade, the better cutting it will do. However, a job like this would NEVER work out on our large format cutter, I would only be able to possibly get away with it on our smaller 15" plotter as it is much more precise on the start/stops.

 

[Gino]

That is a refusal type job. That is not meant to be die cut. That should either be hand painted or digitally printed.

The only secret/hint for that is to completely simplify all those cuts and dumb it down for weeding. Anyone doing that....... hasn't anything else going on.

 

[petepaz]

are you trying to cut the branches on the trees ? i doubt that's going to happen

 

[SIGNTIME]

are you trying to cut the branches on the trees ? i doubt that's going to happen

hahah yes .... We would normally just so no it has to be printed but the customer wants it cut badly and we told him we would do our best so thats why im trying to do this he is turning out to be a good customer and we just wrapped his trailer so we are willing to go the extra mile

 

[d fleming]

If you absolutely have to cut it put a weed border through the middle and weed top half pulling up and bottom half pulling down.

 

[max]

what if you cut it but dont weed it. put transfer tape on entire unweeded graphic. install onto surface, then weed out the unwanted green around the branches on the tree. hope this made since

 

[Gino]

hahah yes .... We would normally just so no it has to be printed but the customer wants it cut badly and we told him we would do our best so thats why im trying to do this he is turning out to be a good customer and we just wrapped his trailer so we are willing to go the extra mile

I thought it looked familiar..............

 

[rjssigns]

Laser it.

 

[SIGNTIME]

thanks for the tips everyone i think ill be okay it cut okay on the test with the slower speed should go better with a fresh blade ... i wish i had a shark with fricken laser beams attached to its fricken head

 

[401Graphics]

i dont think this will ever work out

 

[Mosh]

+ on dumb it down a bit...I bet no one would notice. Take at least half the cuts out.

 

[P Wagner]

Use a new 60 degree blade, with 3M Electrocut vinyl. I've cut, weeded and applied 1/10 inch high letters (8 point) using this combination.

 

[JTBoh]

Did this one last week - 3.5 hours of weeding, and blade depth was spot on. Only pulled two letters too.

NEVER AGAIN.

 

[TammieH]

If you can cut it, I recommend weeding the trees after you apply the vinyl to whatever surface, I assume doors, and yeah as mosh said, see if you can simplify the trees a bit.

 

[MikePro]

i'd be printing or screen printing this onto green vinyl