castironrobbie

I see a ton of hat heat presses on eBay for sale and see several people selling hats online that they've created. Is the machine worth the investment? I know its a small chunk of change compared to a lot of other equipment that could be purchased.

Hey ya'll trying out lxi because I can't find my SCAL info. Anyway it's troubling me. The software makes my machine cut over the same lines 4 times and just shreds right through the vinyl. Any advice?

Solved. Totally was an image issue. I changed the file type. It was a simple clip art. Worked like a charm. Thanks man

Thanks gonna give it another whirl. It's fine test cutting. No issues with depth then actually cutting a graphic it's just going over and over. Maybe an issue with that particular graphic?

Hello, my desktop was recently having troubles so I installed the linux mint operating system as windows was a crash fest. Now I can't figure out how to install the software I need to cut using my r-series. I know the recommended is Inkcut for Inkscape, but I can't get the extension to install. I tried visicut as well with no result. Can anyone offer up any assistance? Not urgent. Just would like to be able to use my machine at some point on this OS. Thanks a bunch

This sounds like the most horrible thing ever. I think I might just buy a cheap laptop running windows. Thanks for the reply

Just got my heat press in, and now the task of buying supplies. I am curious as to which other brands of htv are out there that are reasonably priced, and good quality ( oxymoron? ) Like for instance there's oracal, then there's greenstar.... you know what I mean? I am looking for something to mess with that is decent, but not a big deal to mess up as I learn. Thanks

Man thats a ton of work. I have a lot to learn. Like I said so far so good. Had a good day the past couple days. Anything to not have to go back to working for someone else. I never really got big into signage. Which I wanted to, but I just kind of steered this way. On a side note do you do facebook ads at all? My local supplier told me to try it out, but I am not sure how it works. If so, any results? Would you recommend? Anyone?

I hear you on that. I want to get a one color set up going when I get ahead alittle. I sell a lot of the same design. It's hard to weed 15+ shirts everyday with Siser. Oof. It is unbeatable though for those intricate designs. It's honestly unbelievable what I am able to do with it. I like to order online because it's cheaper, but even when I have to run to a local I pay the extra for easyweed over their brand because of it's ability to create this tiny images. It's funny, I was doing so well with t-shirts, but this week is hella slow. And my decal business is supppperrrr slow. Not sure whats happening. It was my first orders of shirts this past month going out, so maybe customers who haven't gotten theirs yet are waiting on buying more until they get there's in? Who knows. I hope it picks up again though. I felt pretty great!

Since buying my first plotter I have come a long way. If you look back at my first few posts on here many laughs can be had at trying to figure it out. Since I have done pretty well and made some pretty cool decals for weddings, yard signs, now apparel, but want to try to get into vehicle lettering. Do you have any advice for getting started? It doesn't seem like practicing on a customers vehicle is a very good idea, so I am wondering where you got your start, and how to practice installs.

I have very specific sizing instructions on my site. I get orders all the time that clearly didn't follow the instructions for ordering. I also get the occasional butchered decal email as installation instructions weren't followed at all which results in a negative review for me. Which makes no sense

So, I tried it and like it. Not that this is a review section, but I like this vinyl. With the correct pressure it works just as good as any other brand I have tried

Hey everyone, needing to order a new roll of gold today. I don't sell enough gold to warrant buying a roll from my local guy as greenstar is half the price. Sure it's hard to weed, but whatever. I need to order today so I have a question. Is this gold a semi metallic?

Great advice. I typically use tape technologies and cut using 160 for pressure, set to 180 for the green star and it's a huge improvement. Working on some white right now and it's not pulling up from the back much. Not bad I kind of like it. @mb20music thank you. I don't really need metallic, was just curious of the finish prior to purchase.

Thanks @busterbay just ordered.

I hear ya. Most of my customers order small decals. I am online only at the moment. Not sure how to branch into local stuff honestly. I don't even like working with clear, but my other vinyl has a very very dim backing, like an off white, so the average consumer isn't very thrilled when I send them white with the paper tape. Also maybe a rookie question, I have never used matte vinyl. Is it a bit easier to weed because to me it would seem like it may be softer? I know that would vary based on brand of course. About to place an order and wanted to get your input

@busterbay thanks! Not sure why they are so hard to weed. The white is difficult, the black more difficult. I ran out of my other stuff yesterday and did all my white on greenstar, and it wasn't terrible, but not as smooth as the other brand I use. One positive though, I can use just the regular old transfer tape because of the blue backing.

Lol I literally get 10 orders a day. Large orders I don't mind as much. If I can score a couple hundred bucks for a business or something no problem. It's the ones that order one and wonder why it's not there next day or even better insist they paid when they didn't, try to get a freebie cause "it's just a sticker", then call you every name in the book when you don't give your product away to them that gets me

Looks good. I do a ton of these. Kind if burned out on people wanting whole pages in books to fit on them

I want some info too. I have 3 but think I read 4 is now available

I'd be in at layering white on red.

Same here brother. Just making a suggestion. I use SCALP 3

My coffee table is my work space. Done some pretty large decals on it. Mask half, then cut and slide, mask the other half. Gotta do what you gotta do friend

Isn't the base SCAL only like $50? Correct me if I'm wrong. Great program

So funny you say this... I got a complaint once using oracal that the quality of the decal was "ok". As if the average consumer knows. Loved the graphic just not the vinyl. I switched to using tape technologies 3mil, and won't look back. It weeds so smoothly, and not a complaint yet. ( Fingers crossed)