Number plate printing software – recommendations please?

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
be it Tennants or Lg they are both pretty much the much when it comes to printing No.Plates

Kev

[Martin Pearson]

Not sure that Tennants sell the software on its own, mainly complete kits they sell from what I remember.
LgPlates software is probably going to be your best bet if your just looking for software.

[Martin Oxenham]

We have been using the Laser system for making plates for around Ten years and have had various models of printer.
Can you let me know how you get on with this machine especially printing the GB badges as we have thought about getting one.
As for software we have always used our signmaking software and have different templates made up for the different
size plates. We use Flexisign but any one will do even corel or illustrator. You just need the standard font which we have if you need it.

[adrian cox]

hi thank you for the info, i will let you know what it prints like once i get it and some supplies (still waiting on my licence number so i can order". im not sure if to go with the 3 part system or 2 part, what are your thought on these? i have corel and flexisign 8.1 i think but just thought it might be easier to get a program that just does number plates i have a font for the standard letters but not carbon or 3d
regards Adrian

[Martin Oxenham]

Definitely….. Definitely the Three part system with no doubt.

[adrian cox]

excellent thank you 🙂

[adrian cox]

i still cant get my head around what software to get

[Martin Oxenham]

Just use Flexi that’s all we have ever used and we make a lot of plates.

[adrian cox]

i have flexi, how about the borders or non standard plates ?

[Martin Oxenham]

It’s really simple you just set a page size in Flexi for each size plate
Put on a border, put the Bs number in the corner and save for each size.
Then open that file not import it and your ready to go. In the printer driver you will
Need to set the page size again under custom page size and again set these
For all the different sizes. We have had about seven Oki printers over the
Last few years and when the system first came out they printed the Blue GB badge
And colours perfect but over the years the newer models don’t like colour on
The transpanansies so we only print in Greyscale and stick the badges on
This is why I asked about your printer model. People like Tennants say this is because
We don’t use their software so I don’t know if this is true or not as they don’t understand
Flexi and I think a printer is printer regardless of the program it prints from
As its the printer driver that does the work not the program.

[adrian cox]

excellent thank you, i will give that a go and let you know how it prints once i get my lisence number