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Vinyl warped on roll – can it be recovered? Help, please?
Hi guys
I guess this will have been asked before, sorry for repeating.
I purchased some quite expensive reflective vinyl a few months back. I completed a job and put the remaining roll back on the shelf. I came to use it today and while threading into the printer the reflective layer had creases/waves where the vinyl formed a ‘bridge’ detaching from the carrier. As I unrolled more of the vinyl there were more ‘bridges’! I couldn’t use the vinyl as the printehead would have scraped along the vinyl!
Is there anyway of recovering this – maybe unrolling and hanging?
Cheers
John
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5 Replies
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Do you mean its tunnelling and not staying flat on the carrying paper?
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This happens with the reflective we buy all of the time John. We usually trim off a little more than we need then, remove half the reflective away from the backing paper and then re-apply to the backing paper & the same with the other half, resulting in a nice, flat un-warped piece of relflective
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quote Robert Lambie:Do you mean its tunnelling and not staying flat on the carrying paper?Yup, exactly that 😕
This stuff is quite expensive and I’d like to think it’s retrievable.
Thanks to Rezza for the possible solution – I now have 20 metres of the stuff and don’t want to lose it to tunnelling!
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I do the same as Rezza but you do need to be a bit careful how you handle it once you have done that, trying to roll it back up again can often result in them re appearing.
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I wonder how the suppliers handle this stuff or maybe they don’t have it on their shelves too long.
Thanks for the advice.
John
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