How to weed vinyl.
Weed and tape vinyl graphic.
And bond the application tape to your vinyl.
Cutting vinyl with the cricut explore is very easy but weeding it and applying it to a surface can be confusing.
Once your application tape covers the vinyl smooth the surface with long slow sweeps using a squeegee or a credit card.
When you select our do it yourself weed and tape yourself option we will cut out your lettering for you and ship it to you without removing the extra vinyl or adding application tape.
Vinyl lettering includes lettering numbering or shapes that are individually cut out from a sheet of solid colored 2 mil vinyl and then pre spaced and placed onto pre masked transfer tape the number of transfer tape sheets used will depend on the size of your vinyl lettering and amount of colors used.
If we were to leave the extra material in tact and not weed the decal then the customer would receive a solid piece of vinyl and have to weed the decal themselves or reverse weed the decal and pull the printed decal out of the vinyl.
Cut weed and apply the vinyl weed the vinyl.
Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface.
Weeding is not only associated with pulling weeds out of the dirt outside and with old dirty gloves it is associated in the graphics business.
The steps to clean weed transfer and apply cut vinyl to most standard surfaces.
When using removable adhesive vinyl you can save the small details for after you have completely transferred your piece.
Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters.
Weeding and application tape.
Start by peeling away the excess vinyl the largest parts of the design that you won t be applying to the finished piece.
Not for heat transfer or.
Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut.
Weeding is the process of after cutting the vinyl peeling the excess vinyl off of the cut part to see.
When you re ready to apply the vinyl use the application tape to.
For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.
Simple weeding as described above is already factored into our decal pricing on our decal pricing page.
Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape.
This prevents air pockets that can distort the design.
Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet.
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