What vinyl are you using, gabagoo?
This is the same stuff I always use (general formulations) they make house brand digital for Fellers from what I hear. It is very similar to printing on Oracal 3650 except it doesn't have the grey blockout. I really like the stuff but this particular roll when it arrived I knew it was different than the usual vinyl I had been ordering. First off the backing
paper was much heavier but when I questioned my supplier they said it was the same stuff they always sent. I have a 30" roll here and I compared and they are different. The vinyl looks the same so I went with it. When you peel the vinyl off the backing
paper it makes a screaching sound and the old stuff never did, in fact it was a little to aggressive and I found that while trying to use the big squeegee to apply stuff the pressure I needed to exert to release the vinyl was causing stretching. This incident that happened today was the last straw and I phoned the supplier and told him to send me a new roll, take this one back and credit me for what was left on the roll plus an additional credit for sending me a product that apparently does not exist. The guy came to deliver it and he works in the back where they convert off of master rolls. I showed him the backing
paper and peeled the vinyl off and his eyes lit up as he had never seen this before. I told him that General Formualtion must have packed the wrong vinyl in this particular box which meant that these guys had 5 rolls of the stuff floating around in there warehouse or out at other customers.( they can convert 5 rolls from one master) He said the tag in the core was wrong for that product also. My worries now are that I used half the roll and who knows if this stuff will even last a year outdoors. ( they rate it for 5). I even called down to General Formualtion to see if they had changed the way they made the product and they said no nothing was new. It seems that me a simple
sign guy can pick up on what everyone else cant seem to see. go figure
