gabagoo
New Member
Not sure the title is very accurate but here is an interesting little story.
I had a quick easy decal job for 500 3" x 2" decals with a square cut corner. These were for a reseller and he wanted an inexpensive material. I normally would run these types on a 5 year rated General Formulations vinyl which prints and cuts quite nice.
A few months back I had decided to try a cheaper digital vinyl they had which from what I could tell just had a thinner liner. I have used it a little bit here and there but decided to use it for this job.
I ran the job in 2 lots of 500 and afterwards needed some small decals that had a bleed cut (150) and the were about 3" x 1", so I ran them right afterwards.
The next day I cut up all the decals.
The customer who ordered the 500 decals came and picked them up and I give him a pretty good price so he is in charge of weeding.
He calls me up and says the cuts are all off. I told him to bring it back so I could look at them to try and determine what the problem was. It seems the first 2 or 3 rows were ok, but then it seemed to have shifted and the cut was out by less than 1/8" but noticeable as it was close to shearing off some copy.
I re ran his job using the Hexis vinyl (really nice stuff to print and cut with) and everything ran perfect.
I found it strange that both sets of 500 pretty much did the same thing and figured it was a software issue or something.
There was a second job on that roll and it did not use all that much vinyl...maybe 48" x 30" max. This would never be an issue for cutting and I never even considered looking after I weeded them. The problem with these that had a small bleed was that I have to lay them down on Gold Mylar and I start noticing that there are different amounts of white showing up around some edges where there shouldnt be any.
I wonder if the thinner backing paper may have created an issue for the printer as the heat may have slightly stretched out the vinyl? Not sure I will ever use that particular vinyl again to run anything that needs cutting by machine.
Your thoughts?
I had a quick easy decal job for 500 3" x 2" decals with a square cut corner. These were for a reseller and he wanted an inexpensive material. I normally would run these types on a 5 year rated General Formulations vinyl which prints and cuts quite nice.
A few months back I had decided to try a cheaper digital vinyl they had which from what I could tell just had a thinner liner. I have used it a little bit here and there but decided to use it for this job.
I ran the job in 2 lots of 500 and afterwards needed some small decals that had a bleed cut (150) and the were about 3" x 1", so I ran them right afterwards.
The next day I cut up all the decals.
The customer who ordered the 500 decals came and picked them up and I give him a pretty good price so he is in charge of weeding.
He calls me up and says the cuts are all off. I told him to bring it back so I could look at them to try and determine what the problem was. It seems the first 2 or 3 rows were ok, but then it seemed to have shifted and the cut was out by less than 1/8" but noticeable as it was close to shearing off some copy.
I re ran his job using the Hexis vinyl (really nice stuff to print and cut with) and everything ran perfect.
I found it strange that both sets of 500 pretty much did the same thing and figured it was a software issue or something.
There was a second job on that roll and it did not use all that much vinyl...maybe 48" x 30" max. This would never be an issue for cutting and I never even considered looking after I weeded them. The problem with these that had a small bleed was that I have to lay them down on Gold Mylar and I start noticing that there are different amounts of white showing up around some edges where there shouldnt be any.
I wonder if the thinner backing paper may have created an issue for the printer as the heat may have slightly stretched out the vinyl? Not sure I will ever use that particular vinyl again to run anything that needs cutting by machine.
Your thoughts?
