spending money to make it

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

it is still a shock when you place orders for ink and vinyl and it is more than your house payment :/   

some things still catch me by surprise now and then.  today was an expensive day.   
figure it was more than a house payment , about 3 of my first cutter, or one person on a 10 day cruise for us cheap cruisers :/

[Primal Decals 621]

lol i know the feeling ,Sometimes i just say ouch...

[slice&dice 2,450]

Yep ----  I always keep in mind that when I've run out of a vinyl color, that means I sliced&diced through 50 yards of the stuff, and have profited on each square foot.

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

normally I will do ink one time - then rotate and get vinyl for printing and another time vinyl for cutting - all the stars aligned this week and I had to do all at once to keep by comfortable buffer amount on hand.  the big printer needed a round of ink at about $300 and a new office printer of course came with starter ink so that was another 140 -then add several rolls of vinyl (I almost always get the 50 yard rolls) for cut and  - for the  printing normally order several at a time.  so I save a lot on shipping on everything but the ink - since usc doesn't sell that anymore it has to come from another vendor.  at least now they have my 4075rla and 4076rla app tape

[Go-C Graphics 856]

12 hours ago, Dakotagrafx said:

normally I will do ink one time - then rotate and get vinyl for printing and another time vinyl for cutting - all the stars aligned this week and I had to do all at once to keep by comfortable buffer amount on hand.  the big printer needed a round of ink at about $300 and a new office printer of course came with starter ink so that was another 140 -then add several rolls of vinyl (I almost always get the 50 yard rolls) for cut and  - for the  printing normally order several at a time.  so I save a lot on shipping on everything but the ink - since usc doesn't sell that anymore it has to come from another vendor.  at least now they have my 4075rla and 4076rla app tape

I'm wondering why you need both 4075 and 4076.   

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

4 minutes ago, Go-C Graphics said:

I'm wondering why you need both 4075 and 4076.   

I seem to switch back and forth with them for some reason - I can never seem to remember which one I prefer as they are very close to the same product

[Wildgoose 4,200]

High and Med high tack I believe. This is from the USC main site.

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

hmm - I read on the rtape site both are high tack with 4076 being slightly higher tack - somehow I just read both were high tack.   looking at the order I did get the higher tack one but by accident as the 4075rla was't offered in the width I wanted.   another vendor I used would let you buy a whole log (like 48" or so) and then specify how you wanted it slit into other widths - that was nice and a little cheaper but I am pretty sure they don't offer that anymore as they probably had a lot of narrow scrap rolls around
http://www.rtape.com/product-lines/conform-series-with-rla