Cut Vs Pressed Vinyl

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Cut vs pressed vinyl.

Remove the excess vinyl. Record pressing is the method that music is put on vinyl. Packaging mailing supplies. Apply transfer tape over the top of the adhesive vinyl and burnish.

As a result most labels cut costs by reducing the thickness and quality of their materials. Jackets and sleeves are the missing piece of art in the digital era. We made a short summary of how custom vinyl records are made for all you vinyl junkies out there. This is done in three steps.

However like pressed vinyl not every lathe cut is made the same. Vinyl records go together with vinyl record covers. Cut vinyl decals are die cut from pre colored rolls of vinyl and because of that you are limited by color. Place the htv onto the cutting mat and then weed the design pull away excess vinyl to be pressed.

Cut vinyl decals have no background the background that you see behind the cut vinyl design is what you install it onto. Rather than using only virgin vinyl they now began adding recycled scraps. We manufacture all of our vinyl records in the usa using. Lathe cutting is ideal for short run one off records because each piece is individually hand cut tested.

Cut vinyl takes a little more time and patience to install but once installed it can appear to be hand painted. Pressed vinyl on the other. The center labels were removed from old records and the vinyl was then melted down and reused. The manufacturing process for lathe cut records vs pressed vinyl is faster and less expensive than vinyl record pressing manufacturing.

If you want to press vinyl with major label quality disc makers delivers. The sound quality of stereo lathe cut records can be better than pressed vinyl. Cut your design into the vinyl. Lathe cut records have been around since the beginning of the vinyl format itself.

As long as you don t own a shirt press business where you will be pressing hundreds of jobs in an 8 hour day you will probably be good with a manual heat press machine. Htv vs vinyl.