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Signwriter goes digital
Engineer was here today installing our new Valuejet, Laminator and Summa plotter.
He’s back tomorrow to install the RIP and hopefully get us up and running!!!I thought going from brushes to plotter was a big step but this is something else.
Please tell me it won’t be too bad!!!!😕
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Pretty soon you’ll wonder how you managed without it 😀
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ooh lovely neil, enjoy your new toy, trust me you will love it 😀
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Happy new plotter and laminator, enjoy PS don’t throw out your brushes !
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And don’t go hog wild with all the fills and effects!
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Can’t wait to see what you whip up.
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Don’t go painting on the screen now Neil, it ain’t that good
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Traitor!!!!!!!! 😮
Good luck with it though!
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good luck Neil huge interesting & fascinating learning curve I am sure you will nail it and find something different to do with it 😀 and I hope you make some money from it 😀
Lynn
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😀 Thanks guys and gals.
Jill, I’ll do my utmost not to go ‘hog wild with the fills and effect’. Well, maybe just a little!!
Me a traitor, no……I won’t be retiring the brushes…..thinking about it I could have bought a sh*t load of brushes for what I paid for this lot 😮
My mahl stick went off in a bit of a huff tho!
Thanks for the comments, it is a big step for us so just hope it works out.:D -
Doing it all at once, well, It will be a steep learning curve Neil. and for a period you will wonder why you even bothered… regret it maybe… and chuck the occasional hissy fit! :lol1: but i have no doubt once you begin to grasp it, it will open so many doors for your business as it did ours. you will wonder how you managed without, how you competed and more. the fact you are artistically tallented will give you a head and shoulder start over many.
best of luck mate…
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If it’s any help, you can use you all your vector drawing experience to produce all of your print work before venturing into photshop and the like. Start off by mastering the use of gradient fills to create stunning effects.
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Thanks Rob.
Cheers Phill, I can’t wait to try it out.
Hopefully little by little we’ll get to grips with it.
Chris, the engineer has been giving us a few pointers and
he’s going to get us up and running with the RIP software tomorrow. -
Do you have Swiffer commercials over there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPeYhW_qG4
I can see Neil’s mahl stick in place of the mop.
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quote Robert Lambie:you are artistically talented will give you a head and shoulder start over many.Good point Rob, Neil is doing beautiful signs without all this stuff. Looking forward to what you do with the stuff Neil, enjoy!
Too many people just buy all this stuff and overnight think they are a ‘Signwriter’ and produce Signs not very pleasing to the eye. Neil IS a Signwriter, full stop.
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As someone once said on here…. it is like having a member of staff working away in the corner without answering you back.
I gotta agree with Rob, it’ll no doubt change your business. When I look now what we do compared with before we got our first printer there is night and day difference.
Good luck with it Neil 😉
Cheers
Gary
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quote Jill Marie Welsh:Do you have Swiffer commercials over there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPeYhW_qG4
I can see Neil’s mahl stick in place of the mop.
😀No we don’t and that is so wrong!
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quote Gary Birch:As someone once said on here…. it is like having a member of staff working away in the corner without answering you back.
Gary
Gary, really they can be just as a pain in the arse as you might think! Refill Ink, haha i am not printing today!
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quote Dave Rowland:quote Gary Birch:As someone once said on here…. it is like having a member of staff working away in the corner without answering you back.
Gary
Gary, really they can be just as a pain in the ( oh i swore ) as you might think! Refill Ink, haha i am not printing today!
No where near as much of a pain in the arse as some of the staff I have had mate :lol1:
Hence the reason I bought a second printer 😉
Cheers
Gary
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quote Jill Marie Welsh:Do you have Swiffer commercials over there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPeYhW_qG4
I can see Neil’s mahl stick in place of the mop.
😀So this is how you spend your free time Jill, trawling the web for dodgy ads’!!!!!!!
Hey, you’ll never guess who I just got flowers off………….. 😀
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Hi, it’s all in. We is Digital!!!!!!
Overdosed on Techie stuff today and Chris from Spandex was an excellent tutor.
Trouble is by 8 o’clock Monday morning I’ll probably have forgotten everything he told me!!! 😕
And thank you all for your kind comments and words of encouragement.
Now where’s my brush 😀
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I did the same neil ten years ago although just with a plotter eh all I would say although the plotter saves a lot of time I do miSs the originalty of the brushes so keep your sAble writers handy!
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All the best Neil
You’ll enjoy playing around with it all
Don’t throw the brushesAs for me I’ve seen a complete swing to traditional signwriting
I’ll probably say 90% of my work is now traditional
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Good luck Neil, I changed to a plotter 1990 and although I kept the brushes for a while I never use them now and haven’t done
for years. I don’t miss them at all not so much the hand work its the cold, unlit barns I ended up working in winter times I don’t miss:) Enjoy tour new tools and the increase in income.
Alan D
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