What application tape should i use?

[David Rogers]

Just go to high tack – I use it for 99.9% of everything I do.

Conform R-tape 4075 is highly recommended by many members here.

As far as posting tubes goes, it really depends on the size of the items being sent as to how tightly you can wind them. But as a good rule of thumb I never wind tighter than 5"…which normally means that tubes are hard to come by.

[Robert Lambie]

if your just posting out the odd small graphics, use your vinyl core tubes.

if the graphic is large’ish and would be too tight for the tube, you could wrap it around the card core tube, then wrap some bubble wrap around the outside.
bubble wrap is cheap and you can get loads cheap from Robert Horne
http://www.roberthorne.co.uk/ (buy the green tint stuff if you want recycled bubble wrap. thats the stuff i use)

if you are sending a large amount of graphics, same again with the core and bubble wrap then put the lot back in the vinyl BOX that the vinyl comes in., parcel tape around the lot and you’ve not only saved money, your recycling everything, so helping save the planet at the same time. now you’ll feel all warm, fussy and good inside as a result. 😉

[Liam Pattison]

Hi
when i supply to customer i always use hi tac tape, the perfecttear was the best i could find. I have not yet had any issues with high tac tape damaging the customers surfaces (pealing off paint from walls or anything).
Any less tac and the customers could often not get the vinyl to lift from the backing paper.

For postal tubes, when i first started out i used to order them in, but now i use vinyl core tubes or boxes as i found the extra it cost in postage to send them was less than the cost of buying tubes in.

But if you are buying them in you want a minimum of 5cm diameter. You will be able to roll something of 1 meter by around 60cm to go into a 5cm diameter tube without it getting damaged. I have done thousands this way.

But if your vinyl is any bigger than that, you need a bigger tube.

The most important thing when supplying to a customer is to give clear instructions, because if they mess it up, they will probably tell you it was damaged in the post or something, so you will get false information and think something was wrong with your product. When really it was fine.

So i always give videos and written instructions to customers.

Hope this helps

Liam