[Lab] Vinyl

[Darcy Whyte]

I don't think the vinyl cutters used for signs can cut the plastic in
question.



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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