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is it easy to identify different types of vinyls?
Are you ‘more experienced’ vinyl users able to easily identify the different types of vinyl?
e.g. I have vinyls for garment (heat press) and for direct application to other surfaces, cars etc.
Perhaps my easiest solution is to keep them separate.
Cheers
John
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6 Replies
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hi john most of my stock has spec no or makers name on reverse of backing paper for i.d
derek
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John, I always used to keep them separate anyway because if you keep them all together you will find yourself spending loads of time explaining to customers that the colour they have seen in your collection is actually a garment film and is not really suitable for their transit van!!!!
If you are not sure yourself what I used to do when I started was to write on the bit of application tape that stops the roll unraveling what the vinyl was and the colour code number.
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We keep ours separate, as martin sais it avoids customers asking for banner on there van! It’s always handy if the manufacturer has codes on the back but it’s not always the case. For our less commonly used stuff we label with app tape. The best thing is to write inside the roll, but we never actually do this!
G
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Thanks all for your replies, I can see I’ll have to get organised 🙂
Cheers
John
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John, its worth it believe me, I used to keep all my vinyls separated because it was much easier when dealing with customers, didn’t do any garment work so no vinyl for that but I had cast, calendered, banner and a few other specialist vinyls.
With having then all separate it was easy to explain to a customer that the colour they were looking at was either not suitable for their job or it was a much more expensive vinyl range which they could have but would unfortunately cost them more.
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T shirt vinyl is totally different to sign vinyl anyway so you wouldn’t be able to mix that up.
It also mostly comes in 500mm or less widths so again easy to keep separate.
but as for calendered/cast vinyl etc the backing paper normally has an indication on there but not always, an easy way to do it is get some sticky labels and write on what each one is and stick to the inside of the tube, if there’s no tube write it in pen on the backing paper inside the roll.
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