what tape do you use, low/high/thick/thin/paper or clear?

[eddie cotter]

hi gray,how are you keeping, as i am not to long at the adhesive lettering
i am only using medium tack, i havent tried the clear stuff yet, but i am going to get some soon, is i am dying to try it out, at the moment i am struggeling to see the registration marks on two colour work
eddie 🙂

[Lorraine Buchan]

I use europoints app tape – i have no idea if its low medium or high tack but it does the job for me.

I did get some of there clear stuff but haven’t yet used it so i can’t really comment.

[Andrew Blackett]

the clear app tape from oracal (europoint) is fantastic lorraine, even copes with wet application. Some “cheaper” ones tend to seperate from the glue if wet

ANDY

[Phill Fenton]

urmm – push/pull and wet/dry I can associate with – but what’s all this clear/paper stuff your all talking about (?)

[Donnie]

Well, After being on here for a while, I’m trying to do some more work with more detail and color, so I ordered some R-tape Conform clear.
I tried useing it for the first time over the weekend. I was doing some giant main text on a sign blank, three colors.
Even though the tape was crystal clear, to get it alligned perfect I had to do it wet, sorry Robert, and guess what?
All the glue delaminated and stuck to my vinyl’s adhesive. So I had to start all over. Even took a peice and tried putting some plain water on it, same thing happened.
So today I’m back to using med. tack paper type.

[Martin Pearson]

We use europoint medium tack in a range of widths, I can’t afford to stock low tack for large graphics, high tack for small graphics etc, so we just use medium tack for everything. We use clear quite a lot as most of the graphics we do are multy colour, it makes registration so easy its worth a few pence more.
I don’t know about over there Gray but in the UK 3m tapes tend to be really expensive and I certainly couldn’t justify the price difference.