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Trade supplier for accurate shaped plastic / cards
Customer of mine is promoting a tyre business and wants to offer a handy card as per the attached.
Any of my suppliers that I’ve asked (custom cut credit card / business card) can’t guarantee better than a 2mm accuracy…not ideal for a measuring device that requires the edge to be the datum.
Does anybody know of a process / supplier that can give an accurate result – either on this fancy shape or just a rectangle.
Thoughts?
Thanks
Dave
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we did a batch of similar for tyres with customer branding on it also.
it was a rectangle though, just printed it on our latex, mounted to .5 mm acetate type material, guillotined and corner rounder punch. worked a treat and he came back for more. if anything it wasn’t worth the effort but the customer spends a fair bit with us and this was something he wanted to give to all his agents. so we done it and he was happy. -
I did think of doing similar. Print and mount on 0.75mm lexan and trim out…bit thick for my corner trimmer though.
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I have seen something similar to this below with the following
https://www.manomano.co.uk/workshop-pre … gLiovD_BwE
Get a metal die made up to the size/shape.
Flood coat 3mm foamex with your design, chop up and then crush the die through the foamex. I believe the die needs to be hot, saw it being warmed up with a heat press every few goes. Might take a bit of effort but at least you have control of each one and can line it up as you like and not have to trim round each one.No idea where you get the die from. I would imagine a local metal workers.
Olly might still browse these forums from time to time, he would be the man to tell you.
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quote Chris Wilson:I have seen something similar to this below with the following
https://www.manomano.co.uk/workshop-pre … gLiovD_BwE
Get a metal die made up to the size/shape.
Flood coat 3mm foamex with your design, chop up and then crush the die through the foamex. I believe the die needs to be hot, saw it being warmed up with a heat press every few goes. Might take a bit of effort but at least you have control of each one and can line it up as you like and not have to trim round each one.No idea where you get the die from. I would imagine a local metal workers.
Olly might still browse these forums from time to time, he would be the man to tell you.
Thanks Chris,
couldn’t possibly make any money on it though given the time it’ll take and die / press costs – and being promotional items it’s not got a lot of ‘value’…buy it in add a margin & punt it out!
Dave
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Could you not get them printed onto a thick pollyprop or never tear card stock and then die cut by someone with a letterpress? we can print digital onto 300gsm never tear and it would do the job no problem
I use to produce this kind of thing on a Heidelberg platen when I did my apprenticeship
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We use a cheap Magicard printer – job done :thumbsup:
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A quality laser would work to the tolerances you require for that sort of work. Laser mark the calibration part , and also the cut shape. Then print in a jig afterwards perhaps.
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Hi David. Give us a call. We can quote you for these & send some samples if you have the art work ready….. any shape.
Cheers
John -
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If we kept it in house we’d go with the laser cutting of thick black press rolled card, satin finish both sides and then use the left over matrix from the laser cutting as the jig on the flatbed UV to print with white ink base and CMYK over the top as needed. I reckon with careful alignment it would be possible to get a 0.2 to 0.3mm tolerance.
I like the idea of a curved edge and curved scale and I can see how it looks better and could give greater accuracy but why not go with something like the attached – drop it into the tread and rock left and right – I think he double curved line will account for the fact that they may not have the vertical centre line of the card in line with a radius from the centre of the wheel. I don’t think the incremental curvature will need to be so pronounced as I’ve shown it though – a little experimentation would be needed.
Hey presto just get cheap business cards printed!
Just a thought
Cheers
Dave
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We can make things like this on the lasers and the UV printer we have. I bought a trotec with the JC Vision, so all you need to do is print registration marks. The only issue is getting a good material that is laserable as PVC is a no go.
Acrylic tends to be too thick (minimum of 3mm thick in colours or its horrifically expensive)….
Couple of posts since last time, card is a great idea, could use mountboard if you werent bothered about durability. With a camera system such as the trotecs (which is awesome), then accuracy is pretty much spot on as long as you allow for the laser beam kerf.
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