Vinyl Cutter Blade Angles

The key items in the plotter setup include.

Vinyl cutter blade angles.

Use a utility knife to cut halfway through your vinyl plank. Most vinyl materials have two layers a release liner or backing and the vinyl itself. The cutter is designed to cut completely through the vinyl without cutting completely through the backing. Don t worry about cutting all the way through the plank.

The deep point blade has a steeper blade angle 60 degrees and the housing is shorter to allow clearance for thicker materials up to 1 5mm thick. Using the framing square to guide your blade begin cutting along the marked line at a 45 degree angle. Mh series vinyl cutter compatible blades choice of 45 60 deg or assortment rationale for blades of different angles. Use 30 50 less downforce.

The primary rationale for blades of different angles is cutting depth. Guaranteed to get better blade life than oem blades. This deep cut blade housing is blue and accepts deep point replacement blades which are easily identified in stores by the blue protective caps. Those are only 14 00 each or five for 50 00.

You should apply a moderate amount of pressure to cut roughly halfway through your vinyl plank. Blade angle and offset blade depth and blade pressure speed. With the introduction of the new avery dennison cut vinyl film portfolio featuring hp750 high performance and sc950 supercast films i thought this would be a good time for a refresher on plotter blade selection and set up.