Printing Vinyl in Sections

[Shane Drew]

can your RIP print in Tiles mate? give yourself a 12mm (1/2") overlap to be safe.

With the ezytaper, lay each tiled section, then overlay the next tile over it, use the hinge method with tape, then run it thru the taper again. Hard to explain but not hard to do 😕

[Maurice McNicholl]

Thanks Shane

It can do tiles I just haven’t gone into that section yet. Wondered about the overlap. This will be a real test for me, the printer and the EZY. When you say the hinge method – i presume you mean that i tape the print to the board – is this on the outside edge or the overlap – silly question i think – ignorance makes for silly questions!

Love your new pic! Very sharp and business like.

Thanks again mate

Maurice

[Fred McLean]

Haven’t used the tiling bit on our mistral yet but it looks straight forward
enough 😀 When your sticking down the second or subsequent bits
start sticking from where they join and not towards as the vinyl
can stretch a wee bit then you get a small mis-alignment 😥

Hope that makes sense

F

[Shane Drew]

quote Maurice McNicholl:

Thanks Shane

It can do tiles I just haven’t gone into that section yet. Wondered about the overlap. This will be a real test for me, the printer and the EZY. When you say the hinge method – i presume you mean that i tape the print to the board – is this on the outside edge or the overlap – silly question i think – ignorance makes for silly questions!

Love your new pic! Very sharp and business like.

Thanks again mate

Maurice

That’s me mate… Sharp and Business like :lol1: :lol1: Thanks for that 🙂

Yes mate, just hinge it like you would on any sign substrate, on the overlap. Always work away from the overlap, never toward it, as you’ll have issues getting it to join. This applies to whether you use the ezy or do it manually. It goes without saying that the first one needs to be straight of course. If that is wrong, the rest will be wrong… but you knew that 😛

You’ll be right Maurice. Slow and steady.. Deep breathes… measure twice, fit once…. as they say. 😉

edit: just noticed fred said the same thing. sorry about that 😳

[Maurice McNicholl]

Thanks Shane and Fred

Printing done, no hassle.

Software does the job well.

Just the mounting to go – a bit of fear about that yet. We’ll see.

Thanks

Maurice

[Lynn Normington]

Maurice take your time measure take deep breaths and measure again then go for it 😀 don’t forget to breath out !!!!! you’ll be fine and you will show us the pic’s to know why we had confidence that you could do it 😎

Lynn

[Maurice McNicholl]

Thanks Lynn

This is a simple 1200mm x 1200mm sign in only two sections. It is trying these things for the first time that makes them difficult.
Have never tried to get real precision in mounting through the Ezytaper. But i will measure and measure and fret until I get it right.

Customer has agreed now that it would be better on Dibond than on Foamex since i have told him the Foamex will not be so good for a long term sign in the sun. So – a delay until i get the Dibond cut and delivered next week.
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[Martin Pearson]

Maurice, like you say it is a simple sign but if you haven’t done anything like this before then it can throw up doubts in your mind. Just follow the advice you have been given and you won’t go far wrong. Once you have it finished I bet you will be wondering what all the fuss was about.

As for choice of substrate, its good that you have persuaded the customer to use something more suitable, quite often when you install a sign and a few months latter it starts to look bad because the customer wanted the cheapest option they forget that you advised them that this would happen and it suddenly becomes your fault which doesn’t help your reputation at all.

[Karl Williams]

Maurice, just one bit of advice mate, with the Rocky make sure every panel you print is centre justified. I have found that for some strange reason if it’s justified to the left or right you can find a mis-match on the colour matching on each panel. Maybe just my machine but you may want to check first.

[Maurice McNicholl]

Thanks Karl

By good fortune I printed the panels centre aligned and they seem to have worked out OK.

My Rocky has become a new machine after two sets of head replacement and a new mainboard. I think the thing that has really made a difference is the use of the new inks!

Thanks

Maurice