whats the best way to print a whole roll of vinyl?

[Matty Goodwin]

Hi Simon!

Your English is very good but it’s ‘whole roll’ not ‘hole role’!

In answer though we slacken the vinyl on the roll to allow the vinyl to breathe. Then we put it in our drying cupboard to gas out.

Matt

[David Rogers]

Does it HAVE to be one continuous graphic? And in light of that…can you APPLY an entire roll in one go? If not…what’s the point of running 45m of continuous print…and will your uptake spooler handle it…

I’d be tempted to break it down into more manageable chunks. Loose roll & stand to outgas for your 24-48…and laminate away…

[Matty Goodwin]

Good point David, never read into that! Of coarse there must be breaks in the print. If not please don’t ask me to fit it!!!!

Matt

[Phill Fenton]

Matt – your English is very good too ….but it’s course not coarse 😕

[Matty Goodwin]

Aaarrghhh! Me gunna go bak to skool!!

😳 😳 😳

[Peter Normington]

when yoos wrap like matt no need to
go to skool, jus sa it as it, cors is cors,
jus bcors
nuff sed
😀

Peter

[Jamie Wood]

As Matty says, stand the roll on it’s end – we use a roll end to stand it on. Leave it
quite loose to gas out for 24 – 48 hours before laminating. We do this all the time and
have never had any issues. The take ups on our Mimakis handle a full roll with no problem.

[Gwaredd Steele]

Peter: Can you change your profile pic to one of you wearing a baseball cap back to front whilst throwing out a gangsta sign please?

Cheers,

Gwaredd.

[Gwaredd Steele]

Double post

[Simon Polakof]

Thanks every one!
You are right it’s whole and not hole…. 🙂
The reason I was thinking of printing the whole role is because we probably are going to do a whole bus and I thought that it might save me some time to do it all in one chunk….

[Martin Oxenham]

I Can’t believe that any friction fed printer could go a whole roll without running off. I know our old Seal laminator would’nt go more than five metres in one go without needing the print reloading.

[Jamie Wood]

quote Martin Oxenham:

I Can’t believe that any friction fed printer could go a whole roll without running off. I know our old Seal laminator would’nt go more than five metres in one go without needing the print reloading.

Believe it. We do this regularly, and then laminate the whole roll as well.
On a Seal.

[Peter Normington]

me too
Peter

[Peter Normington]

quote Jamie Wood:

quote Martin Oxenham:

I Can’t believe that any friction fed printer could go a whole roll without running off. I know our old Seal laminator would’nt go more than five metres in one go without needing the print reloading.

Believe it. We do this regularly, and then laminate the whole roll as well.
On a Seal.

be careful the rspca will be after you!

I do the same though, how does being friction fed make it run off?
if the roll is squared up to start it should be no problem

Peter

[Jamie Wood]

quote Peter Normington:

be careful the rspca will be after you!

:lol1:

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Martin Oxenham:

I Can’t believe that any friction fed printer could go a whole roll without running off. I know our old Seal laminator would’nt go more than five metres in one go without needing the print reloading.

i couldn’t get anymore than five meter’s on the cadet then it went off…five if i was lucky, in fact i have never in all the years of signmaking using plotters and printers have I had one that did a full roll…..id be jumpin for joy if it did 😀

[Peter Normington]

Seriously
when I load a 50m roll of vinyl in my printer, I do not expect it to go off more than 5/10mm for the whole roll.
I do not have a top of the range laminator, but again I would not expect it to run out more than 20mm on a full roll.

Peter

[Gavin MacMillan]

Agreed, any more than Peter mentions and either you are not loading it straight or there is an issue with the machine putting down uneven pressure

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Gavin MacMillan:

Agreed, any more than Peter mentions and either you are not loading it straight or there is an issue with the machine putting down uneven pressure

well i must be stupid then :nana:

[Gavin MacMillan]

😀

More likely you have an issue with your pinch rollers/grit roller. I have also found in the past that some not so big brands of vinyl are not always slit very straight and that never helps!

[Martin Oxenham]

Peter what laminator do you have ?

[Peter Normington]

Martin
its a jet mounter

Peter