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[Rick Kinloch]

hi Jason,

love the truck – looks awesome.

[Simon Strom]

I agree. I’m digging the truck.

[Peter Normington]

Love the truck l Jason,
How do you die cut? on the print and cut, or with a separate machine?

Peter

[Jason Xuereb]

Hey Peter,

We bought a graphtec cutter a short while ago. Awesome machine. It allows for intermediate reg marks so I can cut long lengths of print and cut without any problems. Longest I’ve done was the jetski which was about 6 metres.

[Peter Normington]

Jason, sorry i think we are at cross purposes,
the decals are kiss cut and then separated into individual items, does the graphtec do this?

Peter

[Jason Xuereb]

Sorry Peter that’s my fault I was doing a million things when replying.

The Graphtec does whats called a ‘perf cut’. So basically it cuts right through the backing for x mm then comes up half way for x mm cutting only through the vinyl. I then simply pop them out.

It also has a special channel where you put the blade so the blade is cutting in thin air and not on the Teflon strip so it doesn’t wear our the blade as much.

We’ve done 200 metres so far with the ‘perf cut’ feature and still going on with the original blade.

[Peter Normington]

Hi Jason
my mimaki does the same, but has 2 positions for the blade holder, and two cutting strips.

I have never been able to get it to work properly though (through signlab)

Peter

[Jason Xuereb]

Hey Peter,

I set my cut line pattern on the machine itself. I use the illustrator plugin for the graphtec and send through the job. So if its a normal kiss cut or a perf cut it doesnt matter from the job point of view. I set the condition on the machine.

I saw the Mimaki cutters at the sign show. You got the one that has the spongy cut strip?

Mines the same but it has a gutter and no strip to cut into.

[Jon Marshall]

We have the JV33 aswell but I haven’t tried the kiss cut. Don’t you have Finecut Peter?

[Peter Normington]

I have the CG130 FX plotter, the one with the "spongey" strip Jason.
Jon, I have fine cut but only used it a couple of times, dont know if it would work when combined with a print and cut from signlab?

Peter

[MichaelThomas]

Hi, sorry if I’m asking a stupid question – but how do you cut for the door?

I presume you cant do it automatically, so you’d have to do it manually – but then how would you do that without damaging the surface..?

[Jason Xuereb]

Michael,

Not sure what your asking. But the racing flag strips on the doors I did by creating a template on the vehicle. Then recreating it in illustrator.

[MichaelThomas]

Sorry, I’ll try and explain better.

Did you apply the flag, then cut the lines down the door – or did you put the lines in when designing the graphic?

[Jason Xuereb]

That black and white portions are a print and cut one piece. I didn’t apply it like a pinstripe. I actually cut it to shape so it was applied flat even though it curves. Uses more material but I get no wrinkles etc in the application.

Nothing is cut on the car.

[MichaelThomas]

I get you!
Thanks

[Ade Ward]

jobs to be really proud of there!!!
well done indeed

cheers

Ade

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Nice, neat work, Jason.
I am sure the jetski was a pain with all those contours.
The truck is really different/attractive. What is it used for?
Love….Jill