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small fence signs
Hi all, have a client wanting some small signs making about 150mm x 100mm. Green backing with gold (yellow) lettering.
Anyone have an idea how to do these economically?
Is it worth looking at engraving or should I stick to silk screen?
Have to be durable
Thanks in advance
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How many are they looking for?
What about green composite cut to size, and then cut vinyl, cut the weed boarder to the size of the substrate, and just fire them through the laminator.
We did 12 this morning, although we just cut the bottom half of the substrate with a weed boarder so we’ve the two sides and bottom edge to get them all positioned the same.
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Thanks David. They need 100.
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Unless I had screen printing in house, I’d try vinyl.
I’m sure you can get coloured foamex & correx too, not sure who supplies it.
It’s easier if you have a laminator, and run the weeded vinyl through to put the app tape down,then trim down to the weed board, and just run them back through, using the edge of the backing paper to align it to the board.
Unless it’s one of those customers who’ll get a micrometer out to measure each one!
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Thanks David, will give a try this afternoon. Would be nice if it was foamex to cut but thinking coloured composite
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Most suppliers will cut it down for you. We usually get in pre-cut.
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for this type of work we step them up to a manageable sheet size so say 20 on a sheet and 5 sheets giving you your 100 you need.
We space each 3.25mm apart and then cut them up on our table saw which has a fine tooth blade and cuts away 3.25mm of material, set your fence and trim them all one way and then set the fence for the other cuts, takes minutes to cut up 20 boards with clean cut edges.
We’ve even done this on our large wall saw with larger panels and stepped them up 20 on an 8×4 for example. Lay the print square to your board and cut away.
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Good idea Warren!
We need to invest in a table saw, and mitre saw.
Do you still use crop marks?
How do you get each board in the same position, just run them through? Put on edge flush to edge of the board?
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we make the board the exact size to fit the boards including the 3.25mm gaps the saw removes, we then add 2mm bleed on each end of the print because when we trim to the print edge we cut off about 1mm, then the print fits perfectly to the board with maybe 1mm overlap but it lets us line it up very accurately, we trim the 1mm away and then the print should be square to the board. Then trim them up in to singles and they all should be within 1mm of each other.
They all get installed in different locations so even if a few mm’s different on each it shouldn’t make a difference.
Cheers
Warren
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Thanks David and Warren, will let you know how I got on
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