What Is The Liner Side Of Vinyl

There is a layer of plastic that will be peeled away.

What is the liner side of vinyl.

Cut your vinyl to fit your mat. They come stuck together when you receive them virtually indistinguishable. For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry. Select and size images.

You want to cut the vinyl side. If you get nothing on the page then you know that is not printable side and that is the side that goes down on the mat. A kiss cut is a cut that only goes through the vinyl and leaves the liner intact. In many if not most iron on vinyls the vinyl side is matte and the carrier side is shiny.

Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. Use a craft stick or scraper found in the cricut tool kit to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. With the computer and dial settings adjusted load the window cling onto your mat just as you would standard vinyl with the liner side down and the window cling surface up. Load mat into your machine.

If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting. The printable vinyl i have used didn t have issues sticking to the mat. Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below. Pick a side of the sheet that you suspect might be the cut side e g the white side of the sheet of red htv.

Regular vinyl typically has a grid on the back and does not have a liner. Place vinyl liner side down. You can tell iron on vinyl from regular vinyl by the front liner. Use a kiss cut when cutting vinyl.

Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat. The shiny side is the liner and the dull side is the heat activated side that you will adhere to an object. It s usually the shiniest side and you use a very sticky mat. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.

Iron on heat transfer vinyl is made up of two layers the vinyl layer and the carrier sheet. Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet. In the photo below you can see the liner peeling away from the iron on design. Then position it plastic side down and vinyl side up.

It s the shinny side.