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Roland Canvas - Does it fray when cut?

I see that the narrowest canvas Roland makes is a 30" roll. I need to vertical indoor banners that are either 12" or 15" wide. For those that have used this material, what would you suggest as the best way to cut the material - take a saw to the whole roll or print faint cut lines and hand cut it after printing? Does the material fray after being cut?

Thanks for any help!

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on October 6, 2010 at 1:32pm

Monet Canvas is one of several textile materials manufactured by Neschen (and distributed by Fellers) that you can print on. I have not used Monet but I have used another textile manufactured by Neschen called Golden Gate, which is not as course a material as Monet. Monet looks like artist's canvas.

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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on October 6, 2010 at 1:40pm

IF you know of any supplier that has the 'finer' material in 30" rolls, let me know! I had a roll when we bought the SP300V and it was a very 'satin' feeling canvas cloth-flexible, non-wrinkle, and printed like Kodak paper. I have used it up and my supplier that sold me the machine claims no knowledge of anything like that-doesn't even remember what brand it was he sent with the machine 5 years ago. And of course, there is no brand label in the tube...
Roland

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on October 6, 2010 at 2:03pm

I got my 54" roll of Golden Gate from Fellers, which only has 20" and 54" widths. It is supposed to be available in the following sizes (according to the Neschen web site):

42" x 164'
54" x 164'
61" x 164'
71" x 164'
80" x 164'
6318007 98" x 164'
6318001 20" x 10'

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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on October 6, 2010 at 2:13pm

If I could only find someone that splits the 61" rolls in half...we could run it! Don't understand why most of the manufacturers won't make 30" rolls....20" isn't big enough when you can only print 18" maximum of it.
Roland

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Permalink Reply by Diane Hook on October 7, 2010 at 11:52am

I'm going to buy a Sooper Edge for cutting the canvas, but is there a specific type of knife I should use?

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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on October 7, 2010 at 12:20pm

IF you use a regular Xacto knife you'll go through blades like crazy and also find it hard to hold a straight line...get a regular 'carpenter's utility knife' at the hardware store-holds a 1" x about 3" double ended blade. Far superior to the 'snap off' type of blade. Has a good rugged handle-go for metal, not plastic. The cheapest way to buy the blades is a pack of 100 in a plastic case. Will last you a long time-just keep an eye on the very 'tip'. Once this wears down or even snaps off, you open up the knife handle and swap the blade around. Extra blades also store in the handle. Great for cutting vinyl/backing when doing large applications and you have waste or need to split between letters. And for opening boxes, cutting cardboard up to flatten it out for recycling....http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D509419.html is a drawing of one.

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Permalink Reply by Diane Hook on October 7, 2010 at 12:45pm

Great advice. My husband is a carpenter, so we have plenty of those knives laying around! Thank you.