Cut Vs Pressed Vinyl

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Cut vs pressed vinyl.

Lathe cut records have been around since the beginning of the vinyl format itself. Rather than using only virgin vinyl they now began adding recycled scraps. We made a short summary of how custom vinyl records are made for all you vinyl junkies out there. Cut vinyl takes a little more time and patience to install but once installed it can appear to be hand painted.

However like pressed vinyl not every lathe cut is made the same. Cut vinyl decals have no background the background that you see behind the cut vinyl design is what you install it onto. 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. Place the htv onto the cutting mat and then weed the design pull away excess vinyl to be pressed.

Jackets and sleeves are the missing piece of art in the digital era. Lathe cut vs pressed vinyl. Small batches are easily pressed with manual operation. If you already have your vinyl records made we can provide amazing packaging solutions from 25 to 1000 units.

Disc mastering metal plating and vinyl pressing. The sound quality of stereo lathe cut records can be better than pressed vinyl. Record pressing is the method that music is put on vinyl. Packaging mailing supplies.

Cut your design into the vinyl. As a result most labels cut costs by reducing the thickness and quality of their materials. The center labels were removed from old records and the vinyl was then melted down and reused. Cut vinyl decals are die cut from pre colored rolls of vinyl and because of that you are limited by color.

Lathe cutting is ideal for short run one off records because each piece is individually hand cut tested. Pressed vinyl on the other. Vinyl records go together with vinyl record covers. Htv vs vinyl.

We manufacture all of our vinyl records in the usa using. Apply transfer tape over the top of the adhesive vinyl and burnish.