Table tent material

[Drip Dry]

Anyone know what material I can use the print with a Versacamm and then score and fold it to make a table tent out of it.
Most call out 14pt stock, but I'm not sure what I can use

 

[Pat Whatley]

I don't know if there's heat involved but a couple of weeks ago I noticed the ones at a restaurant we were at were direct printed to very thin styrene and folded just like standard chip board tents.

 

[Sign Eagle]

We print vinyl mount on 0.060" polystyrene and use a home made 36" long strip heater to bend. Have also use 1/8" acrylic using same process. Takes about 45-60 seconds to heat, we then put the folded piece in fixture to cool. Works very well.

 

[Skye]

Pics

Sign eagle
Would you mind posting some pics of your samples and how to?

Thanks

Skye.

 

[Sign Eagle]

Will try to get a pix up Monday

 

[Drip Dry]

Pat, I would think it's printed on a flatbed. Since I don't have a flatbed and it's a very small order, I don't think that would be an option for me. So, I thought the next best option was to find the material they use ( I thought some type of cardboard stock) and mount my print to it.

Sign Eagle, I would also like to see how you do it

Thanks

 

[petepaz]

thickest material we have printed on our versacamm with out head strikes was .015"
if it's not a large qty just print on vinyl and mount to something rigid
just googled this http://www.mcgpaper.com/tabletent.html
maybe you could print on a .010 or .015 pvc then score it (all on the versa camm)

 

[Sign_Boy]

I may be way off base but couldn't you print on a thicker paper stock - laminate it - cut it to size then score & fold?

 

[Malkin]

I have made them with a .017 pvc on our versacamm (head set to high) thinner would be fine though.

 

[Gene@mpls]

Seems like we had patterns for the gerber edge years ago- print on
PVC 10 and run thru the cutter and crack out- you could also cut a
dashed line for the folds. Fred may remember? My memory is fading
rapidly- every time I remember something new... some thing falls off
the other end.

 

[signage]

Yes the Gerber Edge and PVC-10 forvtable tents!

 

[royster13]

How many are you doing?....Unless the run is very small, maybe an idea to get them outsourced.....TradeNet does them on laminated card stock....