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How do you make car magnets?

We once bought some magnetic material that a local supplier said would work on our Versacamm. It did not. The stuff ended up sticking to the machine. If anyone could share some step by step details to making these that would be awesome. I searched a few posts on the site already but could not find anything that included the process. Also, if you can let me know what materials you use and where to find them, that would help. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on June 15, 2012 at 7:25am

We print on vinyl, laminate it, and then apply the laminated vinyl to the magnetic material. We have tried printing directly on magnetic material and the results were not as good as printing directly on vinyl.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson - Admin on June 15, 2012 at 9:09am

I agree

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Permalink Reply by CYW on June 15, 2012 at 4:21pm

me three!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Ledenican on June 20, 2012 at 4:16pm

We have made beautiful car magnets and business cards printing directly on the material however it is important to cut the magnet to a smaller piece so you do not have the strain due to weight. We mostly print on on vinyl, laminate, then install using the laminator rollers for even adhesion. light premask on the bottom works good to keep from sticking while going through. We install most bigger sized prints to substrates using the laminator, so much quicker and we don't hardly ever have a redo.

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Permalink Reply by Mike F on June 21, 2012 at 10:52am

Premasking the bottom of the magnet is a pretty good idea, but wouldn't laying it on top of a piece of coroplast work just as well without wasting premask?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Ledenican on June 21, 2012 at 8:06pm

Coroplast sure will work great. Our royal 55" only opens so far and we like to do our work as closed as possible. We leave the masking on the bottom when we give it to the customer. Trimmed to shape from the bottom side with the edges rounded to shape makes a nice finished touch.( Low Tack) We also use non adhesive static film over the top. A tad overkill but no one else around does it and it makes a difference to the customer.