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Printed Wallpaper Questions
Hi All,
I’ve been asked by a customer to print some wallpaper. I’ve a few questions if anybody has printed like this or done similar as I’m totally new to it.
I’ve an SP-300v that I want to run the job on. Found a supplier who can get me 1300mm slitted into 2 x 650mm so I load the material OK. Then again if you have any recommendations for 760mm material please shout.
Since I can’t print to the edge what do people do about the unprinted bits down either side? If its trimmed what equipment do you recommend? I’m assuming of course that I can’t do this using the contour cutting on my SP-300v as the paper will have no carrier and therefore be cutting straight onto the carrier strip!
Any other advice you have? 720dpi when printing sound about ok?
Cheers chaps!
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15 Replies
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Trim them down using a cutting bar. Basically a blade that slides on a ruler.
Is the wall paper your printing textured? If it is you can probably get away with a lower quality setting if you can get your feed calibration right.
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Thanks Jason,
Maybe I’m being thick but I can’t find any mention of a ‘cutting bar’ or similar online when I’m googling around. Do you know of a supplier website that I can get the industry lingo from and start to find a supplier in the UK???
Pete
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Superb, they look jolly good :), thanks again to you both.
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Or you could just use a long straight edge and a stanley blade or scalpel. I made my own selection of various length straight edge rulers cut from acrylic sheet.
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after stabbing myself with my knife cutting two tendons on my hand, I use my Javelin Keencut for anything longer than 1m now.
Good piece of kit, but the blades go blunt fairly quickly.
I have to print wallpaper this week. My wholesalers tell me to print on the same settings as banner material.
Never done it before though, so we’ll have to see how it goes.
Cheers
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I find the javelin a lot better as well. With the lift and hold mechanisms were a lot quicker and straighter.
We barely use a straight edge and a blade for trimming up prints.
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You modern convenience fella’s are making me feel old :lol1:
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Hey Bill were more lazy I guess. Not really lazy were just a lot faster. We can lift up one end of the lift and hold mechanisms slide the sheet through and put it back down and cut.
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quote Bill McMurtry:You modern convenience fella’s are making me feel old :lol1:
I don’t have the stand like Jason, just use mine on my table top as I need it.
I never used it that much, as I always found it quicker with a straight edge, but two days in hospital, my insurance agent, my wife and father all asking why I have a Javelin at great expense and I wasn’t using it as much, plus the pain of the injury, was a good incentive to use it more.
Now I use it for anything over 1m in length. Doesn’t move either, so the cuts are always straight. 2500mm is a good length.
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I guess it is a matter of choice, and also a matter of production speed too, re Jason’s situation. My circumstances hardly warrant the expense of such a tool so I’m quite happy with the convenience of a straight edge and a knife. As is the case with all sharp tools in the shop, respect and care will always limit, but never eliminate, accidents.
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quote Bill McMurtry:As is the case with all sharp tools in the shop, respect and care will always limit, but never eliminate, accidents.
… now you’re sounding like my wife 🙄
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Where do you think I got it from? Last time it was the same lecture after accidently stapling some canvas to my leg. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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maybe we should start a sign writers scars section. i know I have a few!!
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From what I hear, Rob Lambie would have a fair few for us to compete with 😎
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