How many different vinyls do you regularly use?

I've saved on materials and ink costs by printing far less during the lockdown (not by choice, but still saving).

I35 for the temp stuff and IJ180 for vehicles & long term signs.
Few rolls of odd stuff - window perf, translucent for menus, and Ij40cR for floor graphics.

 

We use a cheap generic brand for temp stuff.

Ij 35 for anything under a year... Ij 40 for intermediate.. 180 for anything long term or wraps. The we have high tac vinyl for plywood / powder coated stuff. Wall vinyl.

Then we have 6 white reflectives... 3 yellow... 2 orange..

Then we have clears.... Window perf... Idot, etc.

For overlam we have medium term gloss and matte and luster, cast matte and gloss... Anti graffiti wrap, anti graffiti flat sign, pebble, dry erase... A few customer specific ones, And that's just stuff we use all the time.... Lots of specialty vinyls.

I have a rack of about 40 vinyls we print on and a rack of 20 overlam. All stuff we use at least once a week... I wish I could cut down to a few different rolls, trust me. It's a pain.... Keeping track of inventory alone is brutal, let alone all the switching of materials.

 

We primarily do wall decals, not really in the "sign" business. USE oracal 631 and 651 plus a few material for printing. Keep a roll of every color in stock so that would be close to 200 colors/materials we use. Oracal is killing us with the backorders on some colors, waiting 8+ weeks on some colors. Definitely don't enjoy keeping all those rolls but I have every color memorized

 

We also use cheaper generic stuff for temp signage, high quality matte for our longer term signage, cast vehicle vinyl, a number of different orocals for cut, scrim banner, etched vinyl, window perf, a few specialty rolls leftover from projects.. lots of rolls back here! but we really go through mainly the cheap temp stuff and our one brand of high quality stuff.

 

We have a couple dozen along with lamination of every flavor.

 

We have a couple dozen along with lamination of every flavor.

 

Regularly used vinyl... about 4 that we print on, and two "colors" white and black for un-printed cut vinyl. We have a lot of options, but regularly I'd say I use about 4 different: IJ35C (10 & 20), Ij180, IJ40 and Hi-tac. oh, and perf and clear (LOL, the list grows)

Plus 6, 8, 12 mil poster, backlit and Dreamscapes wall paper, static cling