Well, I had some difficulties with the wall vinyl I’ve been using so I decided to stop being so cheap and do a bunch of designs to practice installing. Did some research on other user’s different techniques for Oracal 631 wall vinyl application. I cut most of the designs before I realized I should cut some [...]
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Tried to put up this dragon design onto my wall at home and ran into a few problems. Some people have had problems with the Oracal 631 vinyl material not lifting off the liner with even the highest tack tapes and I was one of them Thursday night. I squeegeed the front and back of [...]
I wanted to use up the remainder of the sample sheet of wall vinyl today. I picked a bunch of designs that looked cool but were simple. Or so I thought. I sent a design to the cutter, cut it and started weeding it out when I hear “Holy crap! That’s the design your doing? [...]
I decided after my sample test of the wall vinyl to just bite the bullet and get a bunch of rolls of the more popular colors and just wade right in. I was disappointed when I got to the sign supply shop. They had barely any Oracal 631 material on the shelves and only in [...]
Well, I researched what type of vinyl was good for wall decals, wall art, wall tattoos, whatever you want to call it and I came up with Oracal 631 as a good first choice. It has a matte finish and is really easy to weed but I heard some people had problems lifting the vinyl [...]
For my third vinyl project I decided to do a larger 4-color window decal. Had a little bit of frustration with the Corel Draw interface but I ended up gaining a better understanding of more efficiently editing vector graphics. I started with a stock 1 color frame design and modified to include multiple colors and [...]
For my second vinyl project I had to try a multi-color design. My company’s logo was created by a design agency but the vector artwork was kinda sloppy so this was a perfect opportunity to hone my Corel Draw skills. I cleaned up the graphic to make a nice 3-color design ready for vinyl cutting. [...]
Purchased a Graphtec CE5000-60 (24 inch. wide) Vinyl Cutter. Finally got my cutter mid January but I was working on a database project at that time so it had to sit. Got it unpacked at the end of January but had a few issues with the software plugin for Corel Draw. Emailed tech support for [...]
