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What is Roll-feed Cutting Plotter |
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| A vinyl sign
cutter (sometimes known as a cutting plotter) is used by
professional poster and billboard sign-making businesses to
produce weather-resistant signs, posters, and billboards using
self-colored adhesive-backed vinyl film that has a removable
paper backing material. The vinyl can also be applied to car
bodies and windows for large, bright company advertising and to
sailboat transoms. A similar process is used to cut tinted vinyl
for automotive windows. Colors available are generally limited only by the collection of vinyl on hand. To prevent creasing of the material, it is stored in rolls. Generally the hardware is identical to a traditional plotter except that the ink pen is replaced by a very sharp knife that is use to cut out each shape, and the plotter may have a pressure control to adjust how hard the knife presses down into the vinyl film, allowing designs to be fully or partly cut out. The vinyl knife is usually shaped like a plotter pen and is mounted on ball-bearings so that the knife edge rotates to face the correct direction as the plotter head moves. Sign cutters are primarily used to produce single-color line art. Multiple colors can be cut and assembled but the assembly process is extremely painstaking if the cut sections are thin and flexible. |
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