how do I lay 2 colours of vinyl?

[John Singh]

I normally use a scrap piece of backing paper
Make sure it is clean and free of fluff ‘n’ stuff

pick up your red with application tape
Lay onto scrap (allowing space either side) and trim excess applic tape
Now pick up your black text with one long piece of applic tape
(you may have cut the whole in black and just weed out the 365 in black,
should give you your exact spacing)
Now just lay it over the top of the red

Works for me fine 🙂

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
cut black & remove letters you want in red, cut red and apply application tape leaving enough tape either side to beable to cover the black. Apply red text into the gap within the black text & apply the excess application tape to black text. Works easier if you have a narrow roll of app tape rather than doing it from a 610mm log although it cabn be done. You can do each one single or multiples. Hope it makes sense can do every day but can’t explain it.

Kev

[Alan Drury]

I would do the same a Kevin but interesting regarding John’s comment on waste backing paper, I use silicon release liner for transporting graphics to site as my waste bits are either wrong size or get messed up with storage and only a few companies seem to sell it now. At the risk of hijacking the thread how do others transport graphics to site – waste backing paper they store for the occassion or does their supplier do the Silicon release liner?
Alan D

[Kev Mayger]

Hi Alan

If you want some silicon release paper. Contact a company with a mount shop / laminator. They throw 100’s of metre’s of the stuff away every week.

Regards

Kev Mayger

[Chris Whitehead]

Thanks everyone!

I’ll give it a go today and let you know how I get on 😀

[ianahobbs]

hi and good luck…if it we me id print black on red with a bleed and then cut out and mask in one go…using a gerber edge or similar print and cut solution.

otherwise the guys have said it all..