Contour Cutting Heat Transfer Material

[SellersSign&Design]

So I've ventured into the printable heat transfer material world. My Grimco rep recommended Specialty Materials 2160, so I ordered that and the first print on it with my L25500 turned out awesome. Then I loaded it in my cutter and everything went downhill quickly. It almost looked like I set it to cut a perf contour. I tried different speeds and pressures and nothing worked. I have a new blade ordered, but is there something else I'm missing here? The cutter is a Mutoh SC-850D.

 

[Dizimoto]

I have that cutter.. I don't have any trouble with the quality on heat transfer material - prob just need a new blade. The problems I usually get with the Mutoh is when it decides not to read the reg marks (bad epos)

 

[Mike_Koval]

im leaning towards the blade as well. this is on the thinner side plus it has some stretch to it so a fresh blade will do wonders for you.

 

[Vinyldog]

The printable material is somewhat leathery. Not easy to cut like the reverse-cut Thermoflex. But seems you could just watch the blade as it's cutting and see what's going on?
I've done contour-cut around the design with the printable material with no issues, but the SP5040V does seem to cut tough materials easier than smaller cutters. I think a lower cut-speed might help. I've also cut text, 2in lettering for a shirt from the printable and it developed a wrinkled appearance over time, but it took a long time. Like years.

 

[SellersSign&Design]

This blade has quite a few miles on it, and most of those miles were cutting reflective. So Im hoping that's the issue. I ordered a "Clean Cut" blade, they have been great in my Gerber plotters so I'm going to give it try.

 

[SignEx]

We use the material on our versacamm, Seems like it contour cuts better when all heat is turned off and platen is cool,

 

[Bill Modzel]

I keep a new blade just for this material. It's like a thin film of rubber and if the blade is not super sharp is will "pile up" a micro sized chunk and jump over it. You can hear it like a small zipper noise as it's cutting.
New blade and as light of pressure as possible. I've printed and cut some very detailed transfers on this stuff.