RoMeO 0 Posted January 18, 2021 Hello there, Can we cut the weed box completely on vinyl in the mh721-mk2 model? Does the blade put more pressure on the weed box Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MZ SKEETER 4,709 Posted January 18, 2021 Weed boxes are controlled in the cutting software. Not the vinyl cutter. No different pressure, you are just cutting a square in the vinyl around your design. That is weed boxes. Not cutting thru the vinyl and backing. Most people on here will tell you at least step up to a SC2 vinyl cutter. It's a much better cutter. Buyers seem to be very happy with the SC2 vinyl cutter and many less problems. The MH vinyl cutter has many known problems. Tracking , communication, static, to name just a few. Can only be ran on a Windows PC. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wildgoose 4,200 Posted January 18, 2021 What you are wanting to do is sometimes refered to as Flex cut that none of the budget cutters will be capable of. Flex cutting is basically cutting through the vinyl and at specific intervals increasing the force to also penetrate the carrier but leaving sufficient attached portions so as to not loose the integrity of the carrier. After the cut then you can push the flexcut peices on out. If you cut it all the way out you would lose the strength of the carrier sheet and all heck would break loose. If you ran a second carrier sheet under the actual vinyl carrier backing you could perhaps do an initial cut and then a second time through the machine as a contour cut but you would have to manually adjust the cutt force and possibly make a blade exposed adjustment. In general if you want to do what you are talking about you would end up into a much more expensive machine. Overall, this type of thing is mostly only used for printed peel and stick "stickers" because of the need for a tranfer paper on cut vinyl decals. Applying app tape to loose decals might prove problematic and at the very least will waste as much time trying to make hthem look god as any other way. Most of us just set the spacing parameter of multiple copies such that you can cut, weed and place the app tape then trim the individual peices in a reasonable consistent squares by hand. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites