Have you ever had custom road sign letters (only) lasered using any >electronic vinyl cutter (onto sticky peel-off letters only)?
I want to make a road sign from an electronic vinyl cutter, which is how
they make road signs of just all the letters (no background is printed).
I will be using Calibre on Windows and then MS Office on Windows to
customize these PDF->MSOffice->PDF templates provided by the DOT.
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/shsm_interim/
These electric vinyl cutters cut the letters out of a sheet of vinyl with a >laser and you get one sheet of material that you peel off all the letters
in a single step and place ONLY THOSE LETTERS onto the sign background.
It's not the kind of 1-piece vinyl sign you put on the side of your car.
Or the kind of 1-piece vinyl sign you put on your lawn to promote politics.
You peel the letters off their background in one step, and then you lay
those cutout sticky vinyl letters onto the sign background where the >background is not affected (usually the background is white or red).
The background of the sign remains what it was - as only the letters are >transferred to that sign background - where they peel away from the vinyl.
Anyone know of an Internet printer that uses the vinyl cutter process?
Have you ever had custom road sign letters (only) lasered using any electronic vinyl cutter (onto sticky peel-off letters only)?
I want to make a road sign from an electronic vinyl cutter, which is how
they make road signs of just all the letters (no background is printed).
I will be using Calibre on Windows and then MS Office on Windows to
customize these PDF->MSOffice->PDF templates provided by the DOT.
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/shsm_interim/
These electric vinyl cutters cut the letters out of a sheet of vinyl with a laser and you get one sheet of material that you peel off all the letters
in a single step and place ONLY THOSE LETTERS onto the sign background.
It's not the kind of 1-piece vinyl sign you put on the side of your car.
Or the kind of 1-piece vinyl sign you put on your lawn to promote politics.
You peel the letters off their background in one step, and then you lay
those cutout sticky vinyl letters onto the sign background where the background is not affected (usually the background is white or red).
The background of the sign remains what it was - as only the letters are transferred to that sign background - where they peel away from the vinyl.
Anyone know of an Internet printer that uses the vinyl cutter process?
Anyone know of an Internet printer that uses the vinyl cutter process?
My employer purchases about $3k per month of vinyl letters for
regulatory lettering and signs from 5 or 6 suppliers. AFAIK, all use
knife type cutters. I did not know there was a laser vinyl cutter and
don't think that a laser would work very well with vinyl. There are
lots of knife type vinyl cutters available but I don't know of any that
allow use over the internet.
Anyone know of an Internet printer that uses the vinyl cutter process?
I would expect any decently sized copy / print shop like Kinkos to be
able to do this somewhere in the company, even if not at the local
store. At the very least they should be able to help you find someone
to do it.
I'd also expect any sign company to be able to help you.}
AFAIK, all use
knife type cutters. I did not know there was a laser vinyl cutter and
don't think that a laser would work very well with vinyl.
I'm trying to find an outfit where I can upload the sign PDF & they can
ship the printed letters that peel off a sheet that I stick onto the sign.
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
I would expect any decently sized copy / print shop like Kinkos to be
able to do this somewhere in the company, even if not at the local
store. At the very least they should be able to help you find someone
to do it.
I'd also expect any sign company to be able to help you.}
Well, if it was that easy, I wouldn't have bothered to ask. :)
My local Federal Express/Kinkos only prints a whole sign for you on >corrugated plastic. Not the letters only. And not on reflectorized metal.
I don't want the kinds of plastic signs people put on their front lawns.
And I don't want those magnetic types that people put on their car doors.
Kinkos won't print onto a standard piece of white reflective metal plate.
But I don't want them to print directly onto the sign material anyway.
I just want the vinyl letters.
They're sticky on one side.
You just peel them off the backing and place them in one step on the metal. >I've done it before but I had the local high school do the printing then.
That's not available to me now as the kid taking the class left long ago.
I'm trying to find an outfit where I can upload the sign PDF & they can
ship the printed letters that peel off a sheet that I stick onto the sign.
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