How to tell the difference in Vinyl's.

[Boudica]

Do you really have to negotiate those dominoes just to go to the ladies room?

Yes, I do. Here's what it looks like today...

 

[gnubler]

the marker sit's ...

You did that on purpose, didn't you!?

 

[Boudica]

maybe.....

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Do you really have to negotiate those dominoes just to go to the ladies room?

she goes out front in the bushes.

 

[Boudica]

she goes out front in the bushes.

Not since Tex set up those cameras. I had to stop doing that.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Not since Tex set up those cameras. I had to stop doing that.

now he sits out in the parking lot. look hard, all you can see is the top of his head and 2 eyes looking through the steering wheel. In his defense, that's as high as his seat will go.

 

[gnubler]

Too bad they stopped printing Yellow Pages. He'd be sittin' pretty on his booster!

 

[SpeedysignsNelly]

Wow!! Thank you so much to everyone who replied. Some really great tips, I'm excited to try out!

 

[Mike Paul]

Hello! I have recently moved into a design role were i cut lots of different graphics from vinyl's all day. I am really struggling to figure out the difference between Cast and Calendared vinyl between the brands 3M, Avery and Arlon. My production manager pretty much removes the label once it arrives and stores them all mixed up together.

Does anyone have any tricks or advice to help me??

Usually printed on the liner…

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Too bad they stopped printing Yellow Pages. He'd be sittin' pretty on his booster!

They get smaller every year. He's gonna have to start stacking them

 

[White Haus]

Usually printed on the liner…

For Orajet media, but that's about it.

 

[Shred_signs]

or you could start labeling them by hand.

Our process we developed was when ever the roll came off the machine, like as a step of "unloading the machine", you would use the caliper to math the remaining media, and that would be labeled on the open roll.
So we could easily check to make sure the open roll had enough media to complete whatever run came next.

Sometimes that would leave us with a few open rolls of the same media, but this was on a production floor with 10 printers.

Also my experience is that you can feel the tension in calendared vinyl, but that's my experience.

 

[jfiscus]

We gut little "T" shapes out of scrap plastics and use a dry erase marker to label every roll that arrives. We have to keep track of lot numbers on every order/print for MCS stuff so it helps making that easy to find. When the roll goes on the printer the T goes into the back of the RIP's monitor to show you which printer has which roll on it.

 

[AndreaRotela]

What are you gonna do with the vinyl? What do you need it for?

 

[gnubler]

Body disposals.

 

[JBurton]

Yes, I do. Here's what it looks like today...

Since my old post got deleted, hahahaaha! Your coworkers are jerks for surrounding that bathroom. If it were my shop, at some point someone would line up rolls while the bathroom was occupied... Once had a guy ratchet strap a door shut by tying the doorknob to a desk. The guy in the bathroom had a screwdriver on him and took the knob apart!

 

[Boudica]

Since my old post got deleted, hahahaaha! Your coworkers are jerks for surrounding that bathroom. If it were my shop, at some point someone would line up rolls while the bathroom was occupied... Once had a guy ratchet strap a door shut by tying the doorknob to a desk. The guy in the bathroom had a screwdriver on him and took the knob apart!

I don't really have any coworkers. This is my responsibility. Recently I cleaned that up some. I'm almost down to what will fit on the racks.

 

[Johnny Best]

Can we see your rack?

 

[Gino]

So, what does everyone have against yellow post-it notes ??

 

[JBurton]

I don't really have any coworkers. This is my responsibility.

So a sort of Hari-kari scenario then?