[Lab] Vinyl

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

A cheap vinyl cutter is the Cricut by Provocraft. it's for crafters (meant
for scrap bookers) but it's basically just a small scale vinyl cutter. My
wife has their 12" model. The 6" older model can be had on sale at Michaels
for like $60-$80

You can use a usb interface and a program called Sure Cuts A Lot to cut
regular SVG files on it (Rather than using their expensive cartridges).
Though you do need at least one cartridge to get it to talk in USB mode
(though there are hacks for that online using only a couple jumper wires).

There is also an open source firmware for it that lets it take regular
plotter style drivers I believe.

- Paul

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>    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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