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How big is an off cut?
2 customers recently, came in I quote ” I need a little sign made up on an old off cut you may have” What size are you looking at I reply,
” I guess about 3′ x 2′.
Sorry mate I don’t class 3′ x 2′ as an off cut, maybe this 8′ x 3” strip will be OK, that’s what an off cut is in my book.
”Oh, how much is a 3′ x 2′ sign then?” That’s better!I’m sure we’ve all been there!
Martin
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People ask for small stickers cut from my “Scraps of Vinyl” that I don’t need.
With a friction feed plotter NO piece of vinyl is a scrap to me. -
An off cut in my book is something that you can’t use, I always tell my customers there is no such thing. I suppose you can’t blame them for trying, but I guess we have all had this one so many times it is a little tedious. :banghead:
Andy
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With a friction feed plotter NO piece of vinyl is a scrap to me.[/quote]
I agree Steve, Where I am I do loads of boat names so all strips of
vinyl are valuable to me.
It’s just a pain in the backside storing them all, I start off with good
intentions putting all off cut vinyl in rolls and colour matched.
Then after a while they end up in a big box getting creased.
I’m sure it’s a problem we all suffer with.
One more thing Steve, you are the dead spit of my brother, they
say everyone has a double, just had to throw that in.Martin
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An off cut is the bit you put in the bin…isn’t it??
Simon
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Martin,
Your brother must be a Handsome Fellow…. 😀 -
If anybody asks me for a design to be made from an off-cut I show them the most insipid, gut wrenching, bile bubbling yellow or purple vinyl :vomit: I can find (we all have some hiding somewhere in our stock), count to three and ….
Oh, how much would it be for the design in blue vinyl then? 😉
Mark
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I agree with Andy, to me its something that can-not be manufactured
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same for me, i can use owt down to 150mm in width and pretty much any length, at a motorsport event last weekend i used more offcuts than roll material ! i’d say about 150 offcuts tween 150 and 300mm, if i’d have cut from the rolls for every job i’d’ve had another 150 offcuts, it saved me a fortune and made the profits that much sweeter !
i even have a box of application tape on blank backing that i’ve trimmed from jobs, the number of times i do a one off sticker that only needs a small bit of tape…………. again it saves loads of metres for the sake of a little thriftness !
i have offcuts which i can use, and rubbish which i give to my kids schools, that includes any botched jobs too, they seem to like things with lettering !
even empty vinyl tubes get used for postage, and the spent backing often get used to wrap items before puting them in tubes, or on the floor under the printer to stop long jobs scratching when contacting the floor, very litle ets thrown away here !
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There was a study done on keeping offcuts in various industries, ie. timber, metals, plastics and it was found that keeping the offcuts costs more money in storage having to retrieve them, keeping stock records of them etc, than just throwing them in the bin and starting from a full sheet the next time around.
As one of our suppliers subscribes to this view and was throwing away offcuts after having stock piled them thinking that they may have come in useful if they never used them, I’ve given them a list of what materials I want and approximate sizes and they sort it out for me. All I pay is a token sum which goes towards there staffs Christmas party fund. -
one mans off cut is another mans profit
If you were building a motorway or a skyscraper, the wastage would be huge, but if you are making little lapel badges the wastage would be waste 😀
Lynn
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