What Side Do You Cut On Ht Vinyl

Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet.

What side do you cut on ht vinyl.

We use cricut cutting machines but you can also use a silhouette cameo 4 or brother sdx125 for example. The reason that you need to mirror your design when working with heat transfer or iron on vinyl you cut the design on the back side of the vinyl. The machine software will help you to choose the correct cut settings. You should see your design on the mat with everything where it should be.

If you don t see this go back and try the attach option again. When working with heat transfer vinyl the shiny side of the material always goes face down for cutting this shiny side is called the carrier it covers the face the colored side that will face out on the garment of the htv and holds the cut pieces in alignment during cutting and applying. Htv has a clear plastic carrier sheet that covers the top of the vinyl and the other side is where the heat sensitive adhesive is it is not sticky or tacky to the touch. Now you re ready to make your first vinyl cut.

Go to your cut settings window and double check that you are set to cut with heat transfer vinyl smooth. This will open the send panel. 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. Cut with the carrier side down and the adhesive side up.

For this silhouette cameo project we want to pick vinyl matte if you re working with oracal 631 or vinyl glossy if you re working with the more popular oracal 651. Mostly you will read that you cut the htv with the shiny side facing down. Heat transfer vinyl usually comes on a carrier sheet. Sometimes that is pretty easy to determine and sometimes it may not be so easy.

Here is a picture of a blue htv this is the shiny. For iron on however you want to mirror your design. Just toggle the mirror button on the left hand side to do this. If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting.

Now that our file is ready to cut let s look at the heat transfer vinyl more. Now you are ready to cut and can click make it. As with any new vinyl or new machine before jumping straight to your main product you should do a test. The carrier sheet is sticky and holds the vinyl in place while you cut.

You have purchased htv heat transfer vinyl and now you are not sure which side to cut well let us help.