Vinyl sheets are a wasteful use of this material. The next revolution is a desktop vinyl extruder that can tailor the shape, color, adhesion, and other properties on-demand and lay that down onto the substrate as a desktop 3D printer lays down melted plastics infused with metals, wood, etc. In essence creating a 3D vinyl printer. No more wasted material from trimming a design from a sheet of material. No need for a heat press to adhere the vinyl to fabrics, plastics, glass, stone, or whatever it normally is used for decoration. Potentially faster and cheaper production of desired goods and signage without the in-between fiddly efforts of weeding the unwanted pieces.
