Snagging When Printing Onto Clear PVC

[Richard]

You could try running some application tape along the dryer heater (after the vacuum holes). It seems to have a much lower stiction than PVC to warm aluminium.

Reduce temperatures (but not too much).

Unroll material, don’t pull it off the roll.

[NeilFox]

I print reverse onto clear no problem. I run it through the printer with the liner and everything. The if I need to have a white background, I then laminate with white.

If I need to print and cut, I print with the crop marks as normal on the clear vinyl, making sure the image printed is in reverse. Then I put some liner paper over the crop marks and tape it into place. Then I laminate with white. Once done, I then carefully cut the white around where the lining paper has been put over the crop marks and remove that, so that the crop marks are now clearly visible and then run it through the machine and line up on the crop marks and cut. The only thing I have found is that the cut weight needs to be about 15 grams more than the normal cut weight for laminated vinyl.

I don’t see why you are trying to print with no liner on, which ever way you try it, the ‘sticky’ side is going to stick to something.

Neil

[Richard]

My interpretation of the OP that he was not talking about self-adhesive clear PVC.

[NeilFox]

Sorry about that.

[Neill Jackson]

Not 100% sure I fully understand your problem but . . . If you are using all the pinch rollers (ie the one(s) in the middle) just move it to one side of the marks and it will not go down with the others. Is it the PVC’s "static" making it stick. If so you could allow a bit of PVC to hang out the front of the printer and add a couple of bulldog clips and then add a bit of weight to them to "drag" it through.
Neill