Vinyl and Vinyl Cutters for beginners - Vinyl 101 

Thankyou from Sunshine Coast Australia for taking *your time* to help others. Always remember that thumbs down people are usually those who would never do a vid to help anyone anyway. Cheers mate. 👍

Nice Tutorial. I'm going to make my own Decals for my own company vehicles. I used to buy them at our local Farmer's Market and put them on myself. Now I'm going to make my own Decals and put them on myself.

Very well done. Useful information, without a lot of fluff. Thank you!!

Good video, well explained. Thanks,

Thanks man I’m subscribing you’ve taught me more than five minutes in the manuals and everybody else did with super simple descriptions at least now I have somewhere to start thanks again

Used to use this stuff to cover my school books 40 years ago, was always known as sticky back plastic

Thank--you! Very informative. You laid it out methodically in a way that could be easily understood.

Had me at "Shiny-sticker-paper-stuff"

This guy's videos got me started cutting 8 or 9 years ago. I'm pretty sure he does airbrushing also. I started with a uscutter MH series, I don't recommend. Static was a major issue. The SC has been fine. I jumped to same laser point as this video. It's awesome. The best part of having a plotter, is making stickers to put on other people's cars. That they didn't want. Lol

AWESOME VIDEO! i couldn't find out how to cut my vinyl in the right spot i wanted without wasting ALL my vinyl space. Thank you soooo much!

This was just what I needed to get started myself. Thank you so much!

Very straight forward tutorial.Thanks!

Killer video ... everything you need to know to understand it and how it works .. at perfect speed. At first I had to back away from the screen, but your expressions helped convey the idea - glad to see them up close. Great energy as well - your a cool dude - thanks for posting.

thank you for explaining how to use a smaller piece, all the other videos only showed a full sheet and for me, I'll only need it for mostly small projects. You explain i well for us beginners!!! Subscribing for sure.

Great way to learn very clear and to the point! Thanks a lot

Good video. We use a Roland GX 24 in our sign shop You just set the origin at the bottom left. You can move the pinch rollers as close together as your vinyl is narrow no matter how small. Saves having the crafter type step of laying the vinyl on a cutting mat . Nice work Good luck with your projects dude.

Thank you. This video helped me so much.

On your small design example I found that it is better to use a full piece of vinyl so that it hits all the rollers. The only difference Is I draw a border around the design on the computer so that it cuts an even box and doesn't waste vinyl. The problem with using a mat material, like in your example, is it makes the depth of the material to be cut thicker and you have to adjust your blade.

Great explanation! Thanks

This cutter with the red sides looks identical to mine .but mine doesn't have red ends but can take a 135cm wide roll and has the stand with rollers to hold the roll. good video cheers for some more info. its a cool tool i love mine. 😁

I'm thinking about getting a vinyl cutter to so I can supplement my graphic design business. Lots of great info. Thank you.

Great video, great info. Thanks

Awesome video! It was cool to watch the process.

I sure wish you taught classes, I just purchased a US Cutter 32in. and could use some tips for sure. Thanks for your videos!

I would recommend this to anyone

This was great! I'm about to purchase my first vinyl cutter and this helped a lot.

Vinyl has completely taken over for me. I use the FDC 4200 series 5 year calendared, or thermoflex plus and glitter flex for heat transfer stuff. Also researching some dye sub printers.

Thanks for the video. We're trying to decide what kind of cutter we need. We were already leaning towards US Cutter. You've given us some points to consider that we hadn't thought of.

You deserve more likes bro for this one

*Love your video!!* Thank you for sharing

sick training, thank you!

Thanks for the video, really valuable knowledge.

I watched this because this is the system my public library has. If you are looking for one check out the library

This is an extremely helpful introduction to vinyl cutting. Already have mine just need to bust it out and start trying some stuff. Also liked how you showed what software you use to create your designs. Just need to get more acquainted with the software for both the cutter and the design software.

When he said "that's clutch" 😂😂

Shot bud ! Thanks for the info and your time .

Great Video, thanks for posting, I'm working on a sticker cutter with my cnc router, I hope it works to make the stickers of the baseball bats I do. thanks.

Well done video. Thankyou

Very informative, thanks for sharing.

Excellent video, very helpful!

Thank you for this video..very helpful and informative

Dorjedriftwood,I remove the waxpaper and just rub on it by hand until it deals less sticky- also just squeeze enough on edges- I painted lowrider of year 1998,99

Just what I have been looking for, in order to make control panel text and graphics for my projects

I have a small craft cutter, a Silhouette (actually I also have a larger Cricut that I got at an estate sale that I canNOT get to work with my laptop), and this is giving me a lot of ideas. I always think of vinyl cutters as the large, plotter-size machines, not like the little thing I use to cut paper and sometimes fabric. Duh. Suddenly, my motorcycle is going to get a lot more interesting. :)

Your blade looks fine. It's your pressure sensitivity that needs turned up, or "force" if you will.

Awesome video! Simple yet the info was very useful. Thank you! (Sadly the cutters aren't on Amazon anymore)

You are not able to set the home point of the blade? This would allow the user to designate the start point of the cutter. For smaller formats you can start near the center of the cutter and not always at the default start point. When the job is finished or the machine is restarted, the blade would go back to the default home or start point.

The vinyl cutter operates more like a plotter which moves the substrate back and forth whereas a printer only moves the material in one direction.

ty for sharing

Great tutorial!

Amazing video! Thanks

THANK YOU

This makes me appreciate my much smaller, much cheaper Cameo. Seems like a lot more work making a small decal on such a large machine. And all that vinyl wasted has the spendthrift in me triggered! LOL Great video though!

Can you do a video on how to make mylar multilayer airbrush stencils using a vinyl cutter?

Thanks for the help..!! 👍🏽

Awesome video!!!

Sir request tell me that can i use this machine for single fine paper sheet?

Are the two vinyl cutters you have in your description your top recommendations even in Summer 2019? Your video is one of the few on RU-vid that gives me confidence you know what you're talking about, but this video is a year and a half old, so I was curious if anything else came out that you would recommend. I'm working with $300-400. I'm more in-tune with the PC tech space and how much content and high quality reviews there is out there for that space, so trying to find vinyl cutter related videos, especially ones that are as detailed and informative as yours, were pretty hard to come by. Thanks in advance!

great vid man

I’m gonna but a vinyl printer. Looking to spend $400. What machine should I buy??

I need your help! Soooooo my wonderful boyfriend of 10 years bought me this machine and the t-shirt press. When I saw the sheer size of this thing, I almost feel out of my chair. I live in a very small apt. AnyWho: I'm pretty good at computers but this was a whole new ballpark. I already work with Photoshop and clean pictures with the program. This is way difficult to learn. I need to start to finish in training. Basically I need help to understand what the heck I got into and feel comfortable. HELP! Short cut to resources from start to finish.

I bought my 24" us cutter the laser one like a while ago, i stopped using it because the software expired and after that I didnt look to renew or buy another one, but that wasnt the main issue, the biggest issue for me was getting to know the program, how to do this or that, I didnt really have anyone to help get familiarized with the program so i really couldnt do much but text decals.

Nice 👍

Awesome

Real good video ,

Do you know what type of cutter can make vinyl floor tiles with a sticky back?

THank you

I love this video Can i print on a vinyl

Hi Iam from India.I want to start this vinyl stickering and wrapping for bikes and cars.Would you plz recommend a budget friendly good quality vinyl cutter and vinyl rollers.

i just bought this cutter (upgrade my roland Camm1) - this helped as i couldnt figure out how to get the paper to come down - just pull on it! brilliant! Do you know what device drivers i need? will it work with a mac?

Very Cool, Thanks

I have a vinyl cutter but not familiar with the software. I need help. The software is Sign Master.

Hi, I am looking to invest in the Vinyl cutter. the main purpose will be to cut printable vinyls for laptop, ipads and phone skins. I am looking at Graphtec ce7000 but is too expensive for me. please suggest the best cutter for my purpose as i will need really accurate cuts. Also suggest where i can possibly find the most accurate dimentions for various electronic products. any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I have a vector 53 in cutter plotter. And I just got it and I have no idea how to use the software.

Hey bro, always admired videos and word from way back when u started. Just thought I'd correct u on something.. "What you see is what you get" is said as "wysiwyg" food for thought. Keep up the good work. Have you checked out the Roland BN20. Pricy but boy what you can do with it.

I just just got this and can’t figure out how to set it up on the computer

Great video... if you were going to apply your vinyl to a "3D" shape (meaning an item with dimension), how would you suggest setting up the file? Would you recommend adding a large enough stroke almost like a bleed to the flat shape? Are there specific ways to set the file up?

Or coulld you just print 2 or 3 srickers so it has more grip?

I thought it was Steve O talking

Hi Tony, love your videos I an now starting my t shirt and promotional printing products I do sublimation at the moment I want to start the vinyl thanks for the tip in the direction to the vinyl cutters. Can you do a colour print on htv and have it cut on the vinyl cutter? Thank you Toronto Canada

I want to print a laptop skin with photo quality, then cut it to the laptop size desired, what printer and cutter would you recommend? they won't be bigger than 10.5 x 17 inches, thanks I'll a appreciate your advise

Is it possible to use different cutter software? Or do you have to use a vendor specific software?

Your links need updating. Thanks for the info.

nice video, i often have issues with the paper rolling backwards on using single sheet vinyl and i notice when you started to cut your cutter just cut and the bar didnt roll, how do you set your cutter to just start cutting with rolling forward or backwards first?

awesome - I am a beginner, thanks a lot- palm springs , calif-

Thank you for this bro... I’m starting a clothing brand and I have my logo and I just bought a 14” cutter printer just for start up... is the process the same but just by adding heat..? Also can you do two logos at one time?

Great video, do you have any videos on how to properly align your cutter to make sure it cuts around inkjet printed stickers? Not sure how to export the registration marks out of SCAL but the print quality from SCAL vs my other programs does not seem as good.

can you tell me what are the easiest free or super cheap ways to get customers? what works best for you? do you do this as your full time gig or as a side thing?

Good video!!

Good video..ANYONE looking to buy a brand new..personally I would stay away from US Cutter(just search is cutter reviews and also look into their cutter reviews) but anyway...I was new to cutters a year ago and also busy. I have a GCC Expert 2 (24") vinyl cutter and want to sell it.(can't exchange because I waited a YEAR before I even bothered to set it up) Hasn't even been plugged in and still in plastic actually. Smh. I have it on Craigslist also. When I originally purchased it they told me I could use it for heat transfers (that's all I want it for) come to find out I need the one with the optical eye. The (GCC lx)Smh.

US Cutter doesn't work with Mac computers? Most of my art friends use Macs, what's up with that?

Can you import personal pictures and say multi layer them using computer software then end up with say a four layered stencil?

How do you make multi colored decals?

just starting on the vinyl cutting The video was very helpful. Can you print on vinyl with a pgment base ink printer ?

Do you need a vinyl printer or will any printer be okay?

Hey Tony, I just bought a MH 721 US Cutter and waiting for it to arrive for my airbrushing on cars/bikes. wouldn't Oracal 531 removable vinyl be better to use as opposed to 561 permenant?

Thanks this Video was so interesting, but my issue is my cutter those not give me sharp edges is always rough and not straight please can you give me some advice on that

Any software recommendation to make a Cuyi mk630 work?

Hi...im new to vinyl cutters just bought one on ebay...ive seen people use contact paper as transfer paper...how much does transfer paper cost per sq ft so i can compare Price.....

What is the best vinyl for doing car decals, Im looking to specializing in that niche.