[Lab] Vinyl

[Jason Cobill]

   Why buy the cow when you get the milk for cheap? Any respectable Ottawa
sign shop will have a vinyl cutter on hand, and most of them will cut you a
huge sheet from a .eps file for < $20.
   Alternatively, there's a bunch of online places that will cut your
decals to spec and ship it, for even cheaper. (Search for Vinyl Lettering
or Sign Lettering)
   Or - if it's a smallish 1-off design of reasonable complexity and you
have a steady hand, print your design out on paper as a stencil and
hand-cut a roll of vinyl using an x-acto (cheapest!). A little patience
goes a long way - I once saw an amazing final-year typographic
design-school project entirely hand-cut in an afternoon.

   I totally dig your idea to pimp out your green bin, by the way. :) You
need some of that 3M reflective vinyl they use on road signs - eyecatching!
If you template out the measurements of your green bin in a vector program,
be sure to pass it along, I'd love to come up it a few designs of my own.
   Also note that vinyl stickers don't wear well exposed to the elements -
you might want to design using a less-adhesive vinyl for the point a year
or two down the road when you need to inevitably peel all of it off.

   -Jason Cobill



On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM, mike Jans <mjans at live.com> wrote:

>  This company has been making Vinyl cutters for decades now:
>
> http://www.rolanddga.com/products/cutters/
>
> My dad has had the same one in his shop since 1990, very reliable machine,
> but a bit noisy. It wouldn't surprise me if they solved that problem by now
> though.
>
> ------------------------------
> From: mike.ayukawa at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:53:26 -0500
> To: lab at artengine.ca
> Subject: Re: [Lab] Vinyl
>
>
> Need to find one of these:  http://www.corbingraphics.com/cuttersraven.htm
>
> On 2012-01-06, at 3:36 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>
> It might cut on a cnc machine....
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
>
> Never! Vinyl is chlorine-based. Chlorine gas is... Bad.
>
> Andrew.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2012-01-06, at 3:00 PM, Michael Lechasseur <mlecha at artengine.ca> wrote:
>
> > Can the laser cutter deal with adhesive vinyl well? I might like to pimp
> my green bin.
> >
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