Holes and smears on new Ritrama vinyl

[David Rogers]

What grade is it?

Used to use the 400 series before switching to 3M 50 series (years ago) and never seen anything like that before.

If it’s L&M… it’s not great stuff to begin with although holes and streaks are obviously a manufacturing defect.

Occasionally get little tiny flies embedded under vinyl / laminates during the summer months (from the manufacturing plant).

[Jasper McEwan]

Morning Steven,

This is something I have seen before, but it was a while ago and I’ve spent ages trying to find the string of emails relating to it. We used to distribute the M & L range, but we stopped it about 2 years ago. It’s clearly a manufacturing defect, are you struggling to obtain replacement rolls?

[George Neagu]

quote Steven Kearns:

Hi all,
I wonder if anybody else is experiencing this – my supplier tells me there are no other reports but I get this all the time and it’s annoying and costly.
I buy 50m rolls of Ritrama matt vinyl and see this particularly in the BLACK but it happens in other colours too.
Maybe 3-10 times per roll, I come across a hole in the vinyl (not the backing) and a smear running from the hole as if a solvent or something has splashed and poured. Obviously if this appears on part of the job, the job is ruined I must cut again. The incidence of the holes may be many more as I only care about the jobs I lose.

I believe that others must be getting this too but are accepting it as part of the experience of using this particular brand – my supplier suspects the same.
Any info anyone can give, or accounts of your experience with Ritrama Matt would be received with gratitude.

I use loads of Ritrama black M series from MDP. Never had an issue with it.
Who is your supplier?

[Nicholas Atkinson]

I find it in most of the vinyls
Not all the time though

[Hugh Potter]

I don’t think this is unique to Ritrama films. While it is a very rare occurence I have had small holes (no smearing like that though) on Oracle 551, and also on a random LG roll I got in a while back. Luckily it didn’t affect my job at the time but it does make you wonder if you miss any on large cut jobs where you don’t pay much attention to the surfaces during weeding or once applied ..