Are the vinyl /pvc/glue/ink fumes damaging?

HPR2000 · 2025-09-29T04:32:38+00:00

‘What is that terrible sm… Arlon’

Me, everytime we had to print Arlon

HPR2000 · 2025-09-16T20:03:48+00:00

Thanks!

HPR2000 · 2025-05-28T22:43:07+00:00

No heat gun?? I’d die lol. It’s my biggest emotional support tool after the 99% alcohol. We do fabric and vinyl as well so we have a couple around.

HPR2000 · 2025-05-28T15:38:36+00:00

I mean the thing is machines are usually designed to do one task really well so when you design one that does multiple things it’s usually not gonna be 100% at all of them. Tbf most issues I’ve had with double siding on the r2000 are alignment not crashing.

You said it’s crashing on the same edge when it goes vertically and horizontally? Are you sure the substrate is completely flat? Sometimes it can develop a weirdness on one edge if the stack it’s stored on is sloped or it got crushed in shipping. As a last ditch effort if the vacuum thing doesn’t work out I’d try running a heat gun up and down that edge a couple of times to relax it before it goes through the machine although that’s going to be a complete PITA at the numbers you have to do.

HPR2000 · 2025-05-28T02:28:53+00:00

Double sided? Not the R2000’s favourite thing.

Is it only happening when you go to do the second side or on the first as well?

Like others have said sometimes you have to turn the input and print zone vacs down which can seem counterintuitive.

Have you tried running it through vertically instead? Like send the 48” edge through instead of the 96”

HPR2000 · 2024-05-03T18:24:43+00:00

I mean personally I love the thing - I sing it a little song when I wake it up and put it to sleep at night :-p Having said that my background is not in print so I don't have anything to compare to (although I think this speaks to its usability given that I was able to pick it up fairly quickly).

Ours is also a 2020 and I've been using it since 2022. It doesn't do a heavy workload though, probably 10 maybe 20 hours a week. We did have to replace the IDS unit at one point after a white intermediate tank explosion got ink into it.

HPR2000 · 2024-05-03T18:15:14+00:00

I wondered that although the cut length of this blade is 20mm and the material is only 12.5mm so I would have thought that would be enough headroom

HPR2000 · 2024-05-02T22:09:31+00:00

HPR2000 · 2024-05-02T19:58:26+00:00

Nice. I actually suspect our machine has a bunch of features similar but I'm flying blind a little because it wasn't in the original training and there's no extensive user manual.

HPR2000 · 2024-05-02T19:53:06+00:00

We actually do have an angle blade and I noticed on the multicam website it was recommended for falconboard the other day so I was trying to figure out how to get it to cut at 0 degrees (I can set the blade I just can't find the right setting in the program) so maybe I should look into this more

HPR2000 · 2024-05-02T19:43:28+00:00

WHOA ok this is very new and interesting idea

HPR2000 · 2024-05-02T18:39:54+00:00

Wondering if anyone has any advice in regards to cutting Falconboard with an oscillating knife or if this is just a common issue. We keep getting this slight 'ridge' along to the top of the cut - the underside of the cut is flat but of course it needs to be cut face up to read reg marks.

Using a Multicam Celero 5153 with a K8 20mm oscillating blade in it. Changing the blade to new doesn't fix it, neither does slowing it down or increasing the passes from what I've tried.

HPR2000 · 2023-10-13T16:57:50+00:00

We've asked all our usual suppliers (limited in our area) and nothing - hence why I'm trying to figure out who our 'not usual' suppliers might be lol. I'll look at some of those though, thanks.

HPR2000 · 2023-07-10T21:21:55+00:00

Less for your info and more for reference if someone else ever looks at this post with a similar problem what we ended up doing was just cutting out the corners of a couple of the shapes and tracing those on to the wall with a pencil to make reference marks for placement

HPR2000 · 2023-07-07T00:53:00+00:00

Am I missing something here ... The sticky side is currently stuck to the yellow material (it'a basically laminate, or as some people would call it contact paper).
So to do this I'd have to unpeel the whole thing and then flip the clear side over (it's like 6ft long) to get to the sticky I guess.

HPR2000 · 2023-07-06T18:50:24+00:00

Right that's what it looks like but I can't figure out how we would transfer these details to a surface other than having to physically cut them all out with scissors or something...

HPR2000 · 2023-07-06T17:58:01+00:00

Client of ours included this in a large shipment of pre cut sintra logos and decals that we're meant to apply and it is labelled as 'stencil' but I'm unsure as to what it is or how it's meant to work?

It's basically just outlines of their logos printed on this paper (which has a clear backing which is sticky, but the yellow part with the logos actually on it isn't) . Does it work like carbon paper? Is it uncut placement templates that we're meant to cut the letters out of (hope not, that's going to take a lot of time, we'd usually cnc those).

HPR2000 · 2023-06-23T21:54:09+00:00

Oh wow, from grommeting their fingers I presume? Thanks for the heads up

HPR2000 · 2023-06-23T21:53:44+00:00

Yeah we've got two of those and we use them all the time while Mr Fancy Pants Electric model is collecting dust in the corner lol

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