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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: SG on July 20, 2011, 01:26:40 am

Title: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: SG on July 20, 2011, 01:26:40 am

Is it possible to cut a roll of paper in two halves?
How would you do that?
Thanks.

Title: Re: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: neile on July 20, 2011, 01:35:58 am

It took me a bunch of attempts at searching, but I finally found the previous threads on the topic:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=40959.0
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=32400.0

The trick was searching for "bandsaw roll". None of the other terms (cut roll, cutting rolls, chop rolls) came up with them. Weird.

Neil

Title: Re: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: SG on July 20, 2011, 01:47:44 am

Thanks Neil!

Title: Re: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: William Chitham on July 20, 2011, 06:50:07 am

My favourite poster media is often unavailable in 42" rolls so I pretty regularly cut 50" rolls down using an ordinary hand saw - so long as it's sharp and fairly fine toothed it works well and makes a lot less mess than a powered saw, no problem with depth of cut either. The cut edge isn't perfect and I always cut the left hand end off so the printer is detecting the factory cut edge during loading. The tricky thing is to cut the roll square - I tape the roll either side of the cut and use a piece of A4 paper taped tightly round to provide a guide.

Title: Re: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: neile on July 20, 2011, 10:44:03 am

William, you may try a miter box next time: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-20-112-Clamping-Mitre-Box/dp/B00009OYGB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311173023&sr=8-1. It'll get you straight cuts without all the fuss of tape and whatnot.

Neil

Title: Re: Cutting a roll of paper
Post by: fetish on July 20, 2011, 02:12:56 pm

Quote from: neile on July 20, 2011, 10:44:03 am

William, you may try a miter box next time: http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-20-112-Clamping-Mitre-Box/dp/B00009OYGB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311173023&sr=8-1. It'll get you straight cuts without all the fuss of tape and whatnot.

Neil

Yea I made one to cut backdrop paper rolls for mobile studio shoots. Still a bit rough but it's the most economically sensible option.