Indestructible polycarbonate decals ..How to ?

[Martin Pearson]

Depends on your set up really, personally I would have to buy them in from a trade supplier as I’m not set up to do this kind of work.
Would imagine they are cut on a flatbed plotter but if you need any info on cutting any kind of media then a call to Edward mathias will give you all the info you will ever need.

[Rob Sidwell]

quote Martin:

Depends on your set up really, personally I would have to buy them in from a trade supplier as I’m not set up to do this kind of work.
Would imagine they are cut on a flatbed plotter but if you need any info on cutting any kind of media then a call to Edward mathias will give you all the info you will ever need.

Hi Martin ,

Thanks for the reply 😀 regarding set up , we screen print in house, we also have a versa camm vs540 along with a gerber edge .

[Jason Davies]

Couldn’t you run on your Edge and cut with a tangential cutter? Which plotter do you have?

[Rodney Gold]

The best way to do these is to print on a very good vinyl , overlaminate with a thick hardy lam and then cut , polycarbonate is not all that "indestructible"..I have produced many decals for push button type applications this way and they seem to last very well , stuff for hospital nurse call pendants and scientific and consumer products.

[Rob Sidwell]

quote Jason Davies:

Couldn’t you run on your Edge and cut with a tangential cutter? Which plotter do you have?

I’ll have a look into tangential cutters thanks (new to me )

We have a Camm 1 pro , Versa camm , and Edge .

[Rob Sidwell]

quote Rodney Gold:

The best way to do these is to print on a very good vinyl , overlaminate with a thick hardy lam and then cut , polycarbonate is not all that “indestructible”..I have produced many decals for push button type applications this way and they seem to last very well , stuff for hospital nurse call pendants and scientific and consumer products.

I agree , but unfortunately the customer wants the polycarbonate 😥

[David Rogers]

shaped or simple rectangles?

If just straight edges – just reverse lay onto 0.25 / 0.5 / 0.75mm p/carb and knife it up…one deep score through to the polycarb and it tears along the fault.

Making them sticky back is a challenge. Getting the right adhesive on a wide roll is a pain to source.

Dave

[Rob Sidwell]

quote DavidRogers:

shaped or simple rectangles?

If just straight edges – just reverse lay onto 0.25 / 0.5 / 0.75mm p/carb and knife it up…one deep score through to the polycarb and it tears along the fault.

Making them sticky back is a challenge. Getting the right adhesive on a wide roll is a pain to source.

Dave

cheers Dave

shapes 🙁 you ain’t kidding about the adhesive, 3M do one £700 a roll !!!!

[Jason Davies]

We were looking at the 3M double sided, not for long though at that price. I was wondering which cutter do you use with your Edge?

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
you could try Drytac they do double sided mounting film the link below is for difficult substrates

http://www.drytac.co.uk/mounting-adhesi … tactm.html

Kev