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Newbie Needs Help Please with using Plotter/Cutter
Hi everyone 😀
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I’m new to all this, just brought a Graphtec Craft Robo, to cut some papers out for my card designs, which its doing fine.
But wanted some help please, was gonna start doing some stickers, vinyl lettering and t-shirts with it. But just don’t know where to start, where to look for supplies or what I’m supposed to be buying.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful (as I’m wondering around in a minefield at the moment he he) -
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hi there and welcome to the boards, thank you for taking the plunge and starting to post. 😀
craftrobo?
i have one in my paws just now, well in my posetion. more on that soon 😉regarding vinyls used for stickers etc… well ide say you could probably use any vinyl, if its just stickers. most vinyls are decent grade of 1year onwards. for a sticker, ide say that sort of life covers it.
if your talking about small signs etc, then again 3-4 year life is fine.
for vehicles and the like you will need a better life on your vinyl and a decent make.
there are many many good makes out there. my favourites and use daily are mactac and oracal. -
The craft robo is meant to work on inkjet output , Im sure the suppliers will have materials , however inkjet vintl etc will work on it , ask your local paper supplier for it.
Bear in mind the decals will have very little durability as the receptive layer on the vinyl is just that , a coating. You would have to laminate.
That is easy , just let the print dry , take thin polymeric clear vinyl and overlay it and then use the craft robo to read and cut.
We used to do a lot of this using a laser to cut the inkjet vinyl.
We triad various fixatives and laquers over the print but they were of limited use – we domed a LOT of the output which worked fantastically.
A craft robo and a cheap printer seem all you need to set up a quite lucrative doming/badge etc business.
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