Vacord Custom Vinyl
22 May, 2009 – 8:49 amI know I’ve neglected this blog for a long time, but it is still popular. I want to start writing again. I had just run out of topic ideas, but I’ve got a few now, to start again. If you have any questions for me to address here, or topic ideas, please email them to me.
Last week I bought a vinyl plotter/cutter, a Roland GX-24, so that I could expand my services. Wednesday the necessary 16 foot usb cable came and I could finally set it up. Here is my first vinyl attempt:
So far, vinyl is awesome. It is very different than screen printing, and seems much easier and more straight-forward. I plan to offer laptop decals like above, as well as wall art vinyl, car decals, window decals, cloroplast signs, auto plates, banners, one-off t-shirts, one-off bumper stickers, unique names/numbers on the back of team shirts, etc etc. It’s been very exciting! Doing my first door decal here at the shop was a similar feeling to doing my first shirt, or the first time I printed discharge. Here’s that door decal:
Here’s a link to the vinyl section of my flickr if you’d like to see what I’ve been doing.
Next, I’m going to design and cut lettering to go on the back of my van to advertise.
If you need any vinyl, please contact me. I plan to be offering vinyl commercially in early June.
Thanks for reading. It’s nice to be back.
3 Responses to “Vacord Custom Vinyl”
glad you’re back to blogging, and this vinyl stuff is good news too! good to know that you can now be a one-stop source for t-shirts and stickers.
By stinson on May 22, 2009
Well, I’d be good for one-off or just a few stickers. Mass production of vinyl stickers is better done with vinyl ink screen printing. Said ink is pretty nasty and hard to work with, from what I’ve heard, so I’ll leave that to other printers!
By Stuart on May 22, 2009
Next up…BUTTONS!??!! Seriously though, good too see you back up. Just don’t get into letterpress printing…that’s our turf :)
By Daniel on May 22, 2009