Hello all! After reading many posts, it's time for my first post looking for some help from the experts.
There are two of us here who own a performance shop and decided to add tinting, and soon, wraps, to our services. We are both sticklers for detail and quality work. After looking at the competition and market area, tinting and wraps seem more profitable with less physical work than wrenching on cars, so this is a direction we're taking.
We purchased a Titan 53" plotter that is working well along with Digicut software. We are an authorized Xpel installer, and currently stock only Prime HP 15% and 5% in 40" x 100' rolls.
The plotter seems to be set up correctly, plus we added a strip of Gorilla tape over the Teflon blade strip after seeing this "tip" watching a YouTube video. Speed is set at 255mm/s and force is set at 70g. We are using a fresh 30* cutting blade.
One of the issues is that the blade is cutting the tint well for the most part but will penetrate the clear backing in a few places, but in other spots, the adhesive is not cut through which makes weeding more time-consuming. The inconsistent behavior makes weeding more difficult. We have pressed down on the Teflon cutting surface to make sure it is as flat and as seated as possible. Why are there still spots where the adhesive did not cut through though? Should we use a 45* blade? More force? Or??
Another issue we run into is during shrinking - sometimes a finger will come out of nowhere and travel horizontally causing a "sideways" finger that is (usually) impossible to flatten. Are we shrinking "too much"? Are we getting the window too hot?
Any help and advice are greatly appreciated!
