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  10. Posted

    So sad that the last one is true.  ha. First time I drove a stick I just jumped in and took off, no instructions of any kind. Only stick experience was video games. I just don't get how people don't know how to drive a manual. I can understand not being good at it right away, but anyone should be able to get one moving.:(

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    My two concern with not taping is scratching it during install and flimsiness of untaped vinyl. If you have a good felt squeegee though the risk of scratching should be minimal. And If the design isn't too big working directly with vinyl shouldn't be too big a deal.

    Give it a try. Worst that can happen is you mess up the vinyl and you have to do it again.

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    The vinyl being off after feeding through 46" as you noted in the back is can simply be a sign that you didn't have the vinyl perfectly square to the cutter when you loaded it. This is not necessarily a problem with the cutter, just a matter of not having it perfectly square to the cutter when you loaded it.

    Have you messed with the tension on the roller clamps? If you have that could be causing issues. Adjusting the roller pressure is a trial and error process and can be very tedious to get the pressures equal across the rollers.

    cutting stripes like that might be slightly better, but you'll still have drift, but it might not be noticeable after placing the stripe on and lining things up manually.

    Try turning on the cut in Strips option and set it to like 8". I can't find any documentation, but I believe they way that works is it will cut the design feeding through only 8" of vinyl. So in the above screen shot, it would cut each of those stripes only 8" long, then it would advance the vinyl and continue the cut of the strip for another 8". The idea behind this is even if the vinyl is drifting, in that 8" the drive should me minimal enough that the cuts will all still line up.

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    Technically no, vinyl cutters can not do die cut. Die cut involves large heavy equipment that stamps out the cut, kind of like a cookie cutter, the cookie cutter is the die.

    Can an LP3 contour cut printed decals? Yes. Can it perforate cut, sort of. In order to accomplish this you need to cut completely through the backing sheet of the vinyl, in order to do that on most vinyl cutters you need a cutting mat that the vinyl can stick to during the cutting procedure. This is how hobbyist cutters such at the Cricut work. The actual perforation cutting would be controlled by the software you are using.

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    Getting 3 parallel lines 46" long from a budget cutter is going to be tuff. Honestly the easiest option would be to make those cuts with a knife and straight edge. The stripe feature of the cutting software might work, I have not played around with that option but I believe you are thinking of the stripe in the wrong direction when you set it to 46.5". I don't believe that will cut your design in stripes. You want to change that number to something like 10" or 12". That should make it cut 10" or 12" inches of the design at a time which should minimize the apparent drift between the parallel lines.

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