How to weed vinyl.
Weed and tape vinyl graphic.
Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters.
Not for heat transfer or.
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.
Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet.
Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape.
Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface.
Once your application tape covers the vinyl smooth the surface with long slow sweeps using a squeegee or a credit card.
When using removable adhesive vinyl you can save the small details for after you have completely transferred your piece.
Cut weed and apply the vinyl weed the vinyl.
After cutting this vinyl decal with the cri.
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.
Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut.
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.
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When you re ready to apply the vinyl use the application tape to.
For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.
Cutting vinyl with the cricut explore is very easy but weeding it and applying it to a surface can be confusing.
The steps to clean weed transfer and apply cut vinyl to most standard surfaces.
This prevents air pockets that can distort the design.
Simple weeding as described above is already factored into our decal pricing on our decal pricing page.
Start by peeling away the excess vinyl the largest parts of the design that you won t be applying to the finished piece.
Weeding and application tape.
Weeding is the process of after cutting the vinyl peeling the excess vinyl off of the cut part to see.
They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from.
