Macee80

Hello all, ive been doing multi color decals for some time now, and havnt had any issues. Have a customer who wants 150 two color decals. Easy enough, ive done this countless times for others. NOT TODAY. Im using oracal 651 white, laying over a lime green avery vinyl. Every part of the decal that is a single color pulls up fine, everything that has two colors layered will not come up with the transfer tape. I am using AT65 transfer tape. Looking for some help with this, as im running out of time. Also, i have tried switching the colors, as i thought it may have been something with the bottom layer (avery lime green), still the lettering that is two colors will not come up with the transfer tape. I hope this make sense and i hope someone can point me into the right direction. Im not sure if the second half of my roll of tape is bad, two weeks ago i did a run of 50 three color decals and had no issues.

Yea, I use a spare room in my house for this, everything was kept to temp. I tried a few different kinds I had laying around. The roll is about a year old, probably less. I tried a different roll of at65, Ht55, which I know is low tack. I also tried a transfer rite ultra, this is an older roll and I wouldn’t trust it, but tried anyway. The at65 is my go to, I use it daily, and haven’t had issues with it before on multi color jobs, I figured it was something with the vinyl. But after changing the colors around (switching the green and white) I still had the same issue. I have some freedom with the decal itself, maybe I’ll try to make the letters a little bigger and see if that helps? I ordered some high tack to try, after that If it doesn’t work, I’m just going to pass on the job as much as it sucks i appreciate your help, I’m burned out on this one, a second set of eyes and someone with more experience is super helpful

I squeegee the crap out of it, tried it both ways, lifting th vinyl and flipping it over and peeling the backing off. My only issue is, I put instructions with each order, but we both know people don’t read them. The “I know what I’m doing guys” Although it works peeling the backing off vs lifting the vinyl, I’m going to say 75 percent if not more won’t do it the correct way. I’ll try lifting up the pressure on the green a little bit while cutting. I’m just surprised that the green that isn’t layered lifts, but the layered does not. Yes i I am laying the green on top of the white, using registration marks. I’m afraid if I use high tack the smaller letters won’t transfer to the window or whatever they are placing these on

This is part of the decal. the part that will not stick to the transfer tape

Hello, I am trying to find a red metallic-ish vinyl. I found an Instagram page where someone was using what I am looking for. Asked a few times for some information on it, got no response. I am hoping someone where can help me find what I am looking for. here is a pic I swiped to show the vinyl.

Im going to buy some of this, it looks to be the closest I could find. Thanks for the help, I’ll check back once I get this.

I don’t need much, I have a friend that wants a few things cut for his kid, he was looking for something like this. I’d also like to offer it, because I like it too. It’s different.

That’s my thought too, I’ve looked through my Oracal fan, and my Avery book with no avail. Didnt think of the “confetti” thanks

Our local high school football team has this "dawgs" logo on their helmets. I am trying to replicate this for a parent for their vehicle. but seeing how poor the quality is, I cant make it work. I wish I could have gotten my hands on it before it made it to the helmet. can anyone help? thanks

Hi All, i had been using coreldraw to cut with prior to this, as we all know that can be hit or miss, now i have bought a new cutter, and it came with vinyl master cut, im not real smooth with vinyl master yet, its a struggle. coreldraw on the other hand i have used enough to get pretty good with it. so here is what i am trying to do. my step father wants a 4th armored division decal for him and his army friends. i went ahead and said sure i can do this for you guys, seeing how its a layered job and doesnt seem to bad. Boy i was wrong. So from the start to where i am now. copied the image into coreldraw, traced it, wasn't happy with the way it came out, some lines that should have been straight were curved ect.. so i redrew it in autocad, perfect, printed it into pdf form, then copied and pasted into coreldraw, i was going to make layers and such in there to make the process easier in vinylmaster. when i pasted the pdf into corel draw some of the lines were lined up or connected completely, went ahead and spent some time fixing that within coreldraw, only for it to do the same thing in vinylmaster when i pasted into vinylmaster. this is the image i am trying to replicate. this is my autocad drawing, in pdf form copied into corel draw. this too is the pdf file, notice how the circle do not align, when i drew this in autocad, i made on of these ovals, and offset the outter portion, also in autocad everything was aligned and joined together as one piece, i then copied them around the outside to replicate the original 4th armored division patch. after placing in vinylmaster, it looks the same as it does in corel draw, did a test cut just to see what would happen, and it cut just as it is shown above. could the line weights i am using in autocad be the problem? my question is, can i make this work in vinylmaster without having to redraw this? i dont know my way around vinylmaster well enough to do this in any way, shape or form, fast. any tips, or advice would be great, and if this is something that cant be done, or i have it butchered beyond repair, so be it. thanks showing the problem in vinylmaster too.

So i imported the DFX file, although that worked great, ive found out that this is indeed to small for me to work with, i cant get clean cuts in the smaller areas, even on my slowest setting on the cutter. im really just not happy the way it was turning out, i cant spend 30-40 minutes weeding something so small. im not going to give up on this, just try to tweak some stuff to make it work better, i didnt want to make this a huge decal, but the smaller it is, the harder. thanks for the help, i appreciate it a ton.

yes, i almost always start a design in corel, its just easier in my opinion. i hate to say this, but i always copy and past, and usually have good luck with it, but i have never imported a file into vinylmaster. i will give this a shot and see what happens. being that i use autocad everyday for work, that is my "go to" for things like this, ill try the .DFX too, never gave that a thought. duh. im pretty new to the vinyl world as far as complex stuff goes.

I will give this a shot thanks

Hi all, a friend of my recently was unloading his setup, that he had not used in awhile. I wanted to buy just the material, software, clipart and stuff, but I had to “take the whole works”. So now here I am with another cutter, but no drivers ect.. I see that I will need an adaptor from parallel to usb to run with my newer pc. What I am trying to find out, can I use this with windows 10? Id like to put this to work on smaller stuff rather than the roland. If not, im not entirely sure what im going to do with it. Thanks.

Good Morning all. Mom working on a small truck lettering job or a friend. And for like life of my I cannot figure out how to do this in Corel draw. What I need to do create a two color letter, gray lettering with a lime green "shadow" ive attached what I am trying to do from a word doc. I would like to have the shadow a little more pronounced any input would help. Thanks

Took me a few tries but I got it thanks a bunch, this was perfect

Hello, I am new to this forum as well as vinyl cutting in general, im hoping to find some help. Here is my current situation, im using a roland gx-400 and coreldraw x6. Some of the problems I am experiencing, maybe due to my lack of experience. I am having trouble cutting from corel draw, I have searched and seen some conflicting information on cutting from corel draw period ( is it possible) Provided this is possible, these are the steps I have been taking 1. I create a simple image in corel draw, change it to wire frame, do the print preview, everything looks good, (image is in the top corner of the layout, I have tried centering the image, also placing the image in various locations, all within the print command) 2. Click print, now this is where things get messy, the cutter will start to cut sometimes, and others it does not. When it does cut, sometimes it cuts within the vinyl, (12” roll) other times it cuts right off the vinyl. I am leaning towards this being my lack of experience with both coreldraw and roland. I was hoping this was as easy as using autocad and a plotter. What information I am look for: can I cut with coreldraw?, or do I need to find another software to cut the image I make in corel draw?

Thank you for the info, I will give vinylmaster a shot, see how that it is first before I try to order cutstudio. I use autocad and inventor daily at work, it's a shame I can't find a vinyl cut program that works exactly like that haha i plan on sticking around here, tons of useful information out there, being that there are more experienced people here, is always a plus. I plan on using the gx as a small scale side job type of thing, and maybe one day it could turn into something much larger scale, but that is just wishful thinking at this point. Thanks again for the help.

Thanks for you help, I also seen someone posted with a similar name as mine, that one isn't me.

I had contacted them months ago, no deal, and I use windows 10. They told me because my cuter was just out of the "grace" period of two years when I purchased it. I also bought this cutter slightly used, honestly looked brand new. it didn't come with anything, it was the cutter with a plug for the wall so this being all new to me at the time, it has been some trial and error but I have ordered vinylmaster, that will be here today. So I will be using coreldraw for the design part and hopefully vinylmaster for the cutter part of the process

this is exactly what i was looking for, i had remember seeing this version of vinylmaster, but then could only find the full on versions. thanks! ill be purchasing this now.

i have been using coreldraw x6 for a few months, got the hang of it and was cutting stuff pretty regular. then it stopped cutting correctly, i know coreldraw isnt a cutting program. so now i am reaching out, to find something i can use to cut. i currently have a roland gx400, ive gotten the hang of coreldraw over the past few months, so im really looking for something to import my file from coreldraw and just use it to cut. i am using windows 10.. that being said, what programs are out there, for let say under $200 that will do what i need it to? thanks

im currently looking for a cutting program, id like to find something i can import from coreldraw, since i have gotten the hang of it pretty good. i have no problem making everything in coreldraw and then importing to another program to cut it, i dont think that would be much of an issue

Hi all, pretty new to the site, although i have been creeping around for some time now, few months back i got a roland gx-400, and then purchased x6. in the beginning i had a tough go at it until i figured out how to cut vinyl with coreldraw, i may have downloaded a plugin or something of the sort, i cant remember. but now, after months of good use, and no trouble what so ever, it seems something has gone wonky, i am not sure how to tell if it is the software or the cutter itself. here are my symptoms, i create anything image or text in coreldraw, switch to wireframe, everything looks perfect as it should, when i go to print/cut, i select my roland, do a print preview, select bottom left corner for a starting point, everything looks good. click print, and then it start cutting where ever it feels like it and doesnt cut the entire file. im not sure what happened over night, or what i may have done in my settings, but this little mix up has me flustered to say the least. hopefully this is something simple in the settings or something, i have to many hours into trial and error cutting in the past two days to not be able to figure this out. any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Hey all, pretty new to the site and the forums, although ive been creeping around in the background. recently a friend of mine came to me and asked me to make him a decal, sure no problem. then the problem shows up he would like a decal, simple and white, nothing fancy, just text, matching this "EcoBEAST" for his new f150 i for the life of me cannot find a font close to this, or even a vector, or file of this "Ecobeast" im using coreldraw, and i have about 3 hours into a copy, paste, trace, and remove and attempting to straighten out some wonky lines. any help would be great thanks again. J