Magnetic items on the versacamm

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Comment by Roland R. Irish III on April 18, 2012 at 8:49am

I don't print magnetic material on my SP300V...because I won't use anything less than the .030 material and I don't want to have to lift the print head up. Anything lighter weight will not hold up a couple pieces of paper, and won't stay on a car long-has to be the .030. I use Oracal RA vinyl-'Rapid Air Release' and RapidTac II in a little misting bottle. I've done car magnets up to 48" long and if you mist it enough, squeegee with a felt covered 6" blade from center out slowly, you get none or minimal bubbles. Any smaller magnets that are shaped-I use Magnet LLC to produce them in quantity. You make more profit outsourcing the small stuff compared to trying to do it in-house.

Comment by John H. on April 18, 2012 at 12:16am

I don't print on magnetic material but I think my magnets look great with vinyl on them? Max Impact with a vector based file, RGB profile good stuff, spray gloss laminate. 

Comment by CYW on April 17, 2012 at 9:25pm

Shoot

nevermind

 

This is a blog post....hence the reverse order, not a regular topic post

Whew, thought I was going out of my mind!

Comment by CYW on April 17, 2012 at 9:22pm

I didn't assume you were saying my magnets were terrible, Kevin...................you said vinyl placed over magnets were terrible and I was merely asking you why????

 

Lady Di

 

Ps  hey Steven, what setting did I muck up?

I can't reply to the posts in correct order

It's making me crazy

The only place I have to respond is at the top of the thread, under the original question.............so everything is backwards

what did I do?

Comment by CYW on April 17, 2012 at 9:13pm

I use a flat bed Ioline to cut the magnetic......actually score the magnetic, I don't cut all the way through
If you have a desktop roll-fed cutter that doesn't have a metal cover plate, you could do the same thing
Just cut the shape multiple times until you get a good score line

If your desktop cutter has a metal plate, you'd need to break the magnetic attraction somehow.....not sure what would be the best substrate to use for that though
Maybe someone else who does it that way will chime in

Comment by Kevin Gibson on April 17, 2012 at 9:02pm

if you read my post. The ones I did came out terrible . Can you tell me what were the steps you used to get such beautiful magnets and also how you cut them since they seem to require a contour cut based on the design.  it would be a big help

 

thanks

 

Comment by CYW on April 17, 2012 at 8:56pm

Kevin, why do you say they look terrible?

This is a crappy phone picture (that gets distorted for some reason when I upload) but they look fine to me in 'real life'

am I missing something, maybe?