A Basic Guide to Tape Application Tools
Using application tape for vinyl is an essential part of vinyl sign making. For some, transfer tape is a breeze, for others a challenge. But because it's a necessary step...
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Designing Drinkware Decals - Outlines and Path Tools
Many who joined us for the Digital Drinkware Decoration Webinar wanted tips on dealing with the uniquely curved surfaces of mugs and tumblers. Last week, we showed you how...
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Designing for Drinkware: LXI Distortion Tool
The topic for this article comes from our Decorated Drinkware webinar. Lots of attendees wanted to know how to design graphics that 'look right' on mugs and tumblers. The...
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What is Punched Vinyl?
Surely you've heard of New Yorkers who've never been to the Statue of Liberty. This article isn't about New York, but it's the Sign College equivalent. We've published over 400...
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Conform Tape and Conformable Vinyl
Sometimes products made in the sign industry come from different disciplines and the people developing these products don't speak the same language. I'm not referring to English and Chinese....
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Vinyl Adhesive - How It Affects the Durability of Your Signs
Should I use a solvent adhesive or acrylic? What’s the difference between a removable and a repositionable adhesive? When does a removable adhesive become permanent? If you’ve ever asked yourself...
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A Basic Guide to Transfer Tape or Application Tape
Transfer tape, also known as application tape or “pre-mask”, is a staple of digital graphics. Application tape is so called because it transfers your cut vinyl graphics from the release...
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Page Feed Adjust for Print and Cut Precision
One of the challenges of making contour-cut decals is alignment. Making professional quality decals requires getting the cutter to trace the outside of the printed image as closely as...
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A Basic Guide to Holographic Vinyl
Now we will discuss one of the most popular of our specialty vinyls. Holographic vinyl comes in a considerable variety of metalized adhesive backed films. Most of these offer stunning...
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A Basic Guide To Installation Temperatures for Vinyl Graphics
This time of year, many of us start a conversation with “Is it cold enough for ya?” In the sign industry, we have to turn this around and ask, ‘is...
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