vehicle graphics: stewart car

[Robert Lambie]

great work again mate, very smart.
😉
i guess you gotta see big benifits from not having to lay up loads of layers of vinyl etc to acheave work like this?

[eddie cotter]

thanks for the fast reply rob! yeah digital is the future of our trade isnt it robert 😉 thats what was on my mind before i got the cadet,
no point in being at the station when the train goes away, you need to be on it, or you get left behind! i usd to think! what if i dont get much work for it, now i dont care if i dont switch it on all week, although it does get plenty of use, its the convenience of having it, only tonight i got a tranny booked in for the weekend he wants some photos on it, normally i wouldnt be able to do it at such short notice, as i couldnt guarantee i would get prints in in time for the weekend, now its no bother, i am even getting a good bit of trade work, as i can offer a service that cant be beaten, like
whear can you get a digital print on a saturday or sunday?
i can do it 😉

[Pryam Carter]

Totally agree with you eddie, digital is the future.
I thought all the same stuff as you when l bought my versacamm in December, very worried about making the repayments . Now 90% of my work is done on it, it’s been great.
I’ve been thinking about getting it switched over to a cadet, the one thing that bothers me is the smell. I have a small office and the versacamm is right next to me, would a cadet be too much?
Nice work by the way. 😀

[J. Hulme]

quote eddie cotter:

yeah digital is the future of our trade isnt it robert

Sorry mate, never let new technology get you too complaisant, it’s easy to caught up in the hype and whirlwind of new equipment,( thats the general sales pitch) they said digital synthesisers were the best thing ever made, which lead only to everyone (including myself) selling all analogue equipment cheap (for nothing) just to buy digital synths which were thin sounding , horrible and now outdated as original analogue has reared it’s head again, but you’ll now pay double the price for the same *old* gear.

I bought an original TB303 for £75.00 ten years ago, I sold it ten years later for £650.00 scratched to buggery with a few microswitches knackered. The proof is if the output can stand up to it’s expectations, the vinyl & plotter does, does digital print, I suspect not.

Worth investigating but I wouldn’t be shouting its praises just yet, two months, one, two -five- ten years down the line of British weather and you may find you have a few irrate customers banging on your door asking where his very expensive printed sign has faded to, who knows, I bet the bloke who sold the machine doesn’t know either, simulated tests are just that, guesswork.

Unfortunately this guy has your money and not your customer disatisfaction problems.

Sadly, I am too thinking of a Cadet or the Grenadier route, but need a little more convincing than just enthusiastical speculation on its durability, lamination? sorry no, that’s a cheap cop out, if it needs lamination its certainly not perfected and additional machinery to perfect it’s idiosyncrasies or failures should be part and parcel of the initial purchase and included with the machine from the outset.

The majority of the work for these machines is outdoor orientated, if they cannot make or supply machines to do the job correctly, why should I be interested in buying, that’s what the poor sales rep has to convince me of.

Being a printer is a little more different to being a just a signmaker,
and the sales rep probably knows nothing of either.

[eddie cotter]

hi billy, my cadet is situated about 3ft from my computer & their is no bother with any smells, my office is small & i wont be putting in any extractor as i recon it dosent need it i find only a mild smell & thats only when doing longer print runs, by the way when i got the machine up & running i stuck a sample sticker on the back of my mobile phone
to see how it lasts! i cant see any fading yet & my phone gets some abuse
all day, in & out of my pocket, i can guarantee one thing though!!! a grenadier from B&P is deffinatly on my shopping list for christmas 😉

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