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Hello from South East Essex
Hello All
My first post so here’s a little about myself….
Since I was 18 i have been at the same print company mainly as a silkscreen printer for 28 years, I started at the "bottom of the ladder" for a couple of years as a print assistant before "graduating" to a screen printer.
The company mainly printed vinyl banners, woven poly flags, display stands and the occasional shop sign.
Everything was all printed by hand until in 2003 when they bought 2 digital machines for the the small print runs, a Mimaki TX2-1600 for Flag printing and a Mimaki JV3 160s for vinyl work, these two machines formed the basis of their "digital revolution effort" of which I was the sole operator and my life became a little easier…. Until earlier this year when the company went into liquidation because a few of their major customers started sourcing their print in China and as a result i found myself with no job and not much prospect of finding one.When I eventually received my redundancy money I decided to go it alone and I purchased the JV3 and its rip plus some other extras including some stock from the liquidators at an extremely good price.
So here I am about to face self-employment for the first time.
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I will be putting my profile photo up when i work out how to but if someone can point me in the right direction that would be great 🙂Andy M
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welcome to the boards andy and good luck with your new venture 😀
nik
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:welcome: Andy – good luck with the venture a nice bunch here to help you
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Hi Andy – good luck with it all and welcome from Kent
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