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NAME BADGE PRODUCTION METHOD?
G’Day All 😎
This is more of a request not a true post. and I think I’m far enough away to not affect any ones business in the UK so here i go.
We (the company i work for)are currently looking for a new badge production method to replace are current printer (Millennium 590)
The process we are looking for must be capable of producing irregular shaped badges, multi colour and full colour badges and ID cards.
The new process needs to be in house and capable of medium to large runs and must also be able to have resin doming applied.I am beginning to get a bit fed-up with the b@#!%&y thing to be quite honest 👿
because every time i think we have found the right one something stuffs it up, IE the process cant be domed, the printer wont print full colour, it wont print odd shapes. so that’s where the great folk on uk signboards come in.If there is any one out there that knows of a good method or any one is at present running a process like this can you please help.
Hope this isn’t to much to ask for my first post
Many Thanks in advance :feedback:
Aussie GLEN
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4 Replies
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Wow mate, 3 posts out of 4 about the same thing.
I’m in Qld too, where abouts are you based.
I must confess, I’m pretty ignorant on these things compared to Rodney Gold on here from South Africa. Hopefully he’ll see your post and give you some direction.
Wouldn’t a print & Cut solvent printer do the trick – it certainly prints full colour and cuts shapes, and I’m sure it should be domable (?)
Even an edge with the cut facility would do wouldn’t it?
I’m not really sure, but some others here may have a better handle on it..
Cheers, and welcome to the site.
Shane
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Hi Shane
Its good to get a reply< thanks for your info. I’ve already gone down that avenue, because the print & cut machines & the edge where the machines I used back in the UK. I know that there is a desk top printer out there that prints and cuts using sub dye inks and its half the price of a cadet and and a lot less than the edge, if only i could find the distributor i will be laughing.
Any way I’m living on the Gold Coast and working in Brisbane. The guy I’m working for is one of the nicest guys Ive ever had the pleasure to meet, mind you most of the people my self and family have met in Queensland seem to be like that.
It would be great to keep in touch with you Shane, your the only person i know in Aus who is involved in the sign industry so drop me a line it would be great to know a little about how thing are done over here.
Got to go
Glen
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We do tons of this type of work.
Buy a small digital print and cut machine , like a roland SP300 , which prints and cuts vinyl , buy a small overhead gantry type router/engraver for cutting the blanks and combine the 2.
You cnc cut the substrate slightly bigger than the decal , and digitally print and die cut the decal , apply the decal and then dome the whole bang shoot.
Works absolutely wonderfully if you use a good urathane based 2 part doming resin , no bleed etc. You can also just dome the decal without a backing for flexible domed stickers , do signage jobs and a whole lot more with these 2 machines. Wont be cheap , but there are a zillion other applications for em. -
see, told you he was da man didn’t I :lol1:
thanks rodney, good advice as always 😉
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