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Cast or Calendared?

Goatshaver

Shaving goats and eating bushes
I often do stickers with RTapes vinylEFX metallic material. It's a royal pain in the a** but a lot of people love the shiny stuff. However I find it does curl up a bit and I know it has limitations for solvent printing, like leaving 6mm clear of any cuts to prevent curling.

Now even with doing that I still stuff that will curl eventually but I think it's just the laminate shrinking up a little.

Would a cast overlam possibly mitigate this? and if so what is a decent cheaper cast overlam that I can look into trying?
 

Hero Signs

If they let me make it, they will come
we leave .25in of white around the edges so they do not curl on calandered vinyl
 

ProColorGraphics

New Member
I use cast laminate on everything. Almost every shrinking issue I have experienced appeared to be the calendared laminate shrinking. I have pretty much eliminated that since I switched to using all cast laminates.
 

BigfishDM

Merchant Member
I often do stickers with RTapes vinylEFX metallic material. It's a royal pain in the a** but a lot of people love the shiny stuff. However I find it does curl up a bit and I know it has limitations for solvent printing, like leaving 6mm clear of any cuts to prevent curling.

Now even with doing that I still stuff that will curl eventually but I think it's just the laminate shrinking up a little.

Would a cast overlam possibly mitigate this? and if so what is a decent cheaper cast overlam that I can look into trying?

Cast will help for sure and I have a deal on cast lam if you are interested.
 
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