Storing Cut and Wedded Films

SuperiorWill said:

We precut and weed large projects ahead of time for a lot of jobs.

I'm looking for better ways to store these pieces to avoid them all sticking together.

How are you all handling this?

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We save the backing from rolls we print on and use it as a backing for things we precut. Works great and its free.

Try a less sticky vinyl like FlexCut Advance, you can staple the weeded transfers without worrying.


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Blank coroplast sign boards...

Chemica Hotmark isn't sticky like Siser, but also you can buy a roll of parchment paper at the grocery store and put it between the transfers. The parchment paper is also useful for pressing a nice matte finish onto the transfer.

i second Neil's suggestion on parchment paper
cheap (costco, just bought 2 more rolls there today) and can be re-purposed many times for re-pressing your vinyl
(it does eventually begin to wrinkle and that can transfered into the hot vinyl)

i did not know that chemica's hotmark has a non-sticky carrier, i prefer it
that was the only vinyl that i could never procure a sample to trial (tried many vendors, chemica themselves, to no avail)

Chemica is a little harder to work with for multi color layering, but it's my favorite vinyl. It's so thin that it almost feels like a print. I wish more distributors carried it.

tfalk said:

Blank coroplast sign boards...

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ea
xactly what we do-- coro is great

I use the backing paper from sign vinyl. It has a siliconised coating that stops the htv transfer from sticking.
It also makes good sublimation pressing paper.

coroplast is very expensive compared to parchment paper

plus, if you have more than 3-4 designs it starts to get very thick and take up alot of room
plus, you have to cut the coroplast to size (unless you have a large free space to place multiple designs on large pieces of coroplast)
plus, unless you are a sign shop, you don't have coroplast lying around

into the T said:

plus, you have to cut the coroplast to size (unless you have a large free space to place multiple designs on large pieces of coroplast)

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Why would you have to cut anything? We just have a bunch of 18x24 boards we keep just for weeded designs. Easy to re-use, peels off easily. In the grand scheme of things, $100 for a bunch of boards you can always use for signs later is nothing...

tfalk said:

In the grand scheme of things, $100 for a bunch of boards you can always use for signs later is nothing...

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If you make signs then yes...coro can be handy. A lot of people on this forum only make shirts...no signs and there for will not have coro laying around.
You can also use sentra, or any number of other flat sign stock.

A good way to get some coro is to call a local sign company and ask if they have any scrap laying around. Some people use it for small animal pens.
We throw out anything less then 12", so that's often 11"x 96" sections.
It just saves us from paying as often for the dumpsters to be emptied.

Ripcord said:

Chemica Hotmark isn't sticky like Siser, but also you can buy a roll of parchment paper at the grocery store and put it between the transfers. The parchment paper is also useful for pressing a nice matte finish onto the transfer.

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Where can I get chemica hotmark?
I love siser but the hand is a little too heavy for me on large designs.