[alan flynn]

hello all

as far as i know, mutoh don’t make a value jet that size, but they do make a machine called the draft station, so i think you will find it is one of them with heaters and solvent resistant pump, manifolds and capping station

regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
i think you will find they are all using Epsom print heads and the jv33 must be like the mutoh value jet which uses one print head,
from my customers and from my own use i have only had 3 value jets need heads and the oldest one i have sold has to be getting over 2 years old doing a lot of work and still on the same print head, so all ican say is keep your media nice and flat dont have any media crashes and happy printing,
and one other thing, being a sign maker as well, make the most of things as they are it a buyers market out there right now, so make the most if it,
happy 2009,
regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all,
in the old days when i used to just work with a brush, when i was sign writing perspex i would always run a leather over the panel, never had any problems then,
if i did not do it you could see the paint tracking off,
this was mainly when doing truck headboards so may prove harder on larger panels,
regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
i agree with all that you are saying Dennis, but have you been drinking the ink out of the waste bottle

regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello Keith

have you had many or any media crashes

regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

Keith is it dropping black yellow magenta or cyan or a combination,

Dave as for my arm, learn from me, when confronted with a man with a iron bar, RUN,

regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello
sorry to hear your problem, we have sold a lot of mutoh and you get odd Friday afternoon machine, they are normally very good,
as for the sea air, we have sold a value jet in Hastings which is about 18 months old one the original head and the sea front is the other side of the road, so that’s just a load of rubbish,
sorry i would put a bit more info in but i have a broken arm at the moment so typing seems to take for ever, not that i type that quick with 2 arms,
regard
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello
i have been using the apa truck for years, with no problems, we also use, ink, if you sign write it really mucks your brushes up, if you stencil make sure you us a stencil vinyl, we use mactac rigid paint mask, but don’t leave it on to long or you will need to clean off some glue after,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

i have been using reflective for over 20 years and no problems, the last 2 have really damage my name and my business, so much so i am having to re invent myself, i will dig some photos out and see if i can post them, i don’t want anyone going through want i am going through,
i have changed to oracal and so far so good, yes it conforms really well, but does mark if you have to move it,
once i have had some more input from my supplier i will put up what make they are , sad thing is it is a least 2 makes

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
i have had 2 years of hell with reflective, front film coming of,flaking, and before this about 23 years of no trouble,
if anyone wants some pictures of whats been happening i can email you,
bit please be very careful i am having to go back to jobs i have done over 2 years and sort them out which has really taken most if not all my profit away if you take into account removal time and glue remover,
i will let you have more info when i have had less to drink,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all,
karl be very carefull what you do, it is not just fitting the the head and lining it up, you have to set the head voltage, which should be on the side of the new head, also when working on the machine have you removed the power lead and powered up, to discharge any voltage in the machine, as you can blow the fuse on the main board or even blow the board itself, hope this has been of help,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

HELLO ALL

LUKE SORRY TO HEAR YOUR PROBLEM, AS JASON HAS SAID YOU CANT BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE, WELL PUT JASON MAY I ADD,
I STARTED TO GET BIG MANY YEARS AGO, MAY I ADD NOT IN HEIGHT, AND FOUND MY TURNOVER WENT RIGHT UP AND MY PROFIT WENT THE OVER WAY,
WE DO SIGNS AND SELL KIT, BUT OUR SIGN CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN WITH US YEARS AND WE ARE NOT REALLY LOOKING TO ADD TO THEM, WHILE WE CAN KEEP THE ONES WE HAVE ALREADY GOT, WHICH ALSO SAVES ON ADVERTISING.
OUR MACHINE SALES WE AGAIN HAVE A LOT OF CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE USED US FOR YEARS AND WE RUN SMALL ADDS AND A ADD FEW MORE HERE AND THERE, BUT WE CAN ALSO TELL PEOPLE WHAT A MACHINE IS REALLY LIKE WITHOUT THE NEED TO HAVE TO MAKE A SALE, SOMETIMES ITS BETTER NOT TO MAKE A SALE THAN SELL SOMEONE THE WRONG MACHINE,
SO I THINK YOU CAN OPERATE IN BOTH MARKETS AS LONG AS YOU ARE FAIR AND LOOK AFTER YOUR CUSTOMERS IN BOTH AND KNOW WHEN NOT TO CROSS THE LINE
REGARDS
ALAN FLYNN

[alan flynn]

hello all

chris it was not avery, however i did change to using there reflective and all was ok, until they sent me some with a yellow backing with the wording reflective film on the back, it looked a nice material and fitted really well, however this has failed but in a different way, it looks like the colour is printed on and the colour is flaking of, on a transit connect van we chevroned in red half the back door is know white,
as soon as i got a problem i stopped using it.
dave as for new paint most of the vehicles we do are new and the slide beds are not painted, nearly all the vehicles are done with the kwiwi light, but as i said before my supplier said it was kwiwi light but the backing is white, when we used to have it supplied before we had any problems, which goes back a very long time to be fair, it had a yellow backing with the manufacturer name on the back,
my problem is we have a lot of vehicles to sort out and our supplier only seem concerned in chasing money, which to be fair you could say we owe, however by the number of vehicles we are going to need repairing it is going to cost me a small fortune without adding my time and losing face with my customers, who i have told i will replace as required, FOC
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

Cannot mention the supplier in case things go legal, but the reflective is meant to be Kiwilite 5 year but as the backing paper is plain, I cannot be absolutley sure. Funny thing is, I have been using this product for the last 15 years and have never had this happen before.

[alan flynn]

hello all

sorry to hear they still have not come up with the right solution, just goes to prove there is still room in the market for smaller dealers like us, and at 5ft 5 they don’t come a lot smaller,
some time when you deal with a bigger company what you have to remember is to a lot of there staff its just a job,
but as Sean has said and we have loads of happy users, maybe you have got a Friday afternoon machine
and spandex if you read these boards it may pay you to cut back a bit on your advertising budget and show a bit of good will and just replace the machine
action speak louder than words
regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

sorry john, you are correct, English has never been my strong point

dane have you alined it correctly

regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello scott

vef fonts are normally sign lab fonts and will only work in sign lab, you could do your font layout and exports from sign lab, but remember to convert text to graphics
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello karen

to be fair to spandex these are really good machines, we have sold a lot of them and only had problems with one, i don’t agree that the smaller machine has any problems as we have only had 1 machine play up and that was a 64 inch, this is were your dealer come into play and hoe they handle your problems, but to be fair to spandex and they sell against us,
they are normally very good
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

in one word capping station, i could be wrong but don’t think so
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
most screen inks are dissolved by there own solvent, meaning the thinner you mix them with will open them back up and you can clean them off, however on fabric forget it and do you have the time
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
Chris this is what i was trying to say, they should sell the inks with the labels or chip depending on machine and if they are in it for the long term offer a profiling service,
or at least put the customer in contact with some one who can offer these service and let them have a costing of what this bundle is going to cost, they can look at the bigger picture and way up if its with all the aggro
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

ail tack or fine line was there other name used to be the company who mainly made these, but they are no longer about, a company who make caravan graphics as far as i can remember purchased there kit,
if you try Jane at vinyl logistics, she knows the company concerned

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
why don’t you just stick to mutoh inks, they might cost a little more but,

1 you don’t have all this aggro.
2 all your profile will be out
3 you don’t know how light fast these third party inks are
4 are they going to stink your place out, the mutoh inks have hardly any smell
5 if they are like a lot of the other inks out there any money you will save on ink, you will lose on have to replace, heads capping stations and dampers,
6 add up all your time sorting the above and you will properly find its cost you more over all

this is just from what i have seen, and if anyone says i am saying this to get ink sales, we will only sell ink to people who have purchased machines of us

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
victory are correct lg don’t make reflective any more, be careful what you buy, we use a Lot and have had some Major problems with it,
regards
Alan Flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

electro signs in walthamstow, speak to chriss or steve, great company and have been in trade years,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello
most of the cheap machines from chine are not true usb, they have a built in usb converter, so you will need to check your com port settings,
that might be your problem,
as for artcut it will work on vista, but when you talk about sprks comming of the machine that does not sound safe does it have CE,
your suppling dealer should really be helping you,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello chis
have you spoken to who you purchased the machine of, if it was a dealer they should help, the summas and the soft ware work really well it could be your pc have you tried loading it in another pc,
or feel free to give me a call and i will try to help
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all,
the opas can be fitted to the summa sign pro models, but sorry it cant be fitted to the cut models,
hope this is off help
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
kevin you have hit the nail on the head, you need to turn the power off, pull the power supplie and then power the machine on with no power to it, that then discarges any voltage on the main board,
on a good note the fuse are only about £6, but they need to be soldered in by some one who with a bit off saffey
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello karl
sorry to see all your problems, but surely your ink supplier or machine dealer should be able to pick the ball up and help you run with this, i have a jv375sp which we not really use and the heads have clogged, for the second time, ( brian hays dont laugh ),
but i have 2 flush cartridges which are half full but say they have run out,
come on peter and phil, help this man out,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello sue
the problem i find with color scanning is if you zoom in, say you have red green blue, with tiff and jpegs there are usually loads of color if you zoom in, try using your node tool if the logo is not to complex,
or a short term fix is try the web draw uk will vectorize it for you at a good price, if they are still charging what they used to,
by the way welcome, nice speaking or even typing to you,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

illegal = a sick bird
roland price fix = dealers who are yes men
as brain said the margins are dropping as a reseller and also as a signmaker,
so for me, found the golden egg, off to sell the big issue then nice night in, in my big cardboard printer box mansion,
night all

[alan flynn]

hello all

scott i think you are correct , i dont think the manufacters use there own ink, just like most of them dont use there own print heads, pumps, capping stations, but they wont go just on price,
third party inks are getting better as are the machines becoming more forgiving,
its like vinyl, i mainly use mac tac on my work due to using cheaper vinyls and having problems, i chose to pay more and know the product i am using wont fail,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
sorry for the late reply, bill i understand what you are saying and if i was only a sign maker i would name company’s, but being a reseller as well i dont think its fair for me to go putting other suppliers name on the net, however you are welcome to give me a call and i wiil be happy to talk to you, all i was trying to say is for example when we sell 2nd hand machine we allways put a tried and tested ink in it even if it cost us more money, because the last think i want is my customer having problems from the word go, so if we set them off with a machine with ink which we think will not give them problems, then a least they know what the machine is capable of, and if they change inks and it give problems, well we can say it was ok with the inks we supplied if you know have a problem it could be the ink, sorry for the waffle
regards
alan the waffle flynn

[alan flynn]

hello bill
sorry as a reseller i think it would be unfair of me to name the manufactures, however they are inks which are still sold today and the are light solvent as i call them, not full solvent as some other resellers call them, if you get were i am coming from, as i said before we are only interested in selling ink to people we have sold machines to as part of the service, we dont want to be a big ink reseller, i am just passing on what has happened to me and some of my customer i have sold machines to,
my dad used to say to me you never stop learning and in the printing game it applies far more than the vinyl cutting market, hope this make sense,
in some ways this is a bit like the cheap cutter debate, everyone has a different idea on it,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello
as a end user and reseller, we have been there and all i can say is, if you want a easy life stick with what the manufacture supply, then if you have any problems there is no one blaming each other, also from what has happened to us, third party inks fade a lot faster, do you really want to have to do the job twice, and lose your name and any profit,
we only supply ink to our customers so we have nothing to gain by our statements
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

if the ink supplier does not offer any profile or profiling service, dont go there,
plus from what we have seen over the years, when people try to save pennies on ink, they lose down time on heads clogging, and jobs not coming out the same as older work done with there older inks,
again it is a case of you get what you pay for,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

david the max did not even get into the luxury car market, it only gave spandex a very red face, and it did not print it

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello paul
we have our own cut down version, if you email me your fax number i will fax it to you,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello jo, this post makes some good reading, everyone is giving you good advice, but one thing i would say is ebay is not total bad for buying or selling, we do some business on it, with good and bad results, its not totally full of scammers,
as for cutters looking the same, we sell machines from £400 up to £9000 and you get what you pay for, everyone when first starting out seem to think roland are the best cutter, so did i when i started many years ago, if i spent as much time researching cutters as i did software i would not have brought a roland camm1, however when i went for my next machine i spent a load of time on it and in the end got a summa t1300, one of the best machines i ever used,
dont just buy of spec sheets have a demo and road test some machine to make sure what you buy is right for you, most proper dealers will offer you this service, good luck
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

it would make a good door stop, and you could also hang your coat on it,
ask your self one question it is a newer model than the egde, so why are spandex not selling them,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

as andy said apa truck works really well and good value for money, we have used it a lot and had no problems

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello jill again, sorry we some time use a wood working tenonsaw, ie or a small cabnet makers saw, works great for us,

regards
alan flynn
ps i have not tryed it upside down tho !!

[alan flynn]

hello jill

dont try cutting it upside down.

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

lackrill is what you are looking for, we used it at collage about 20 years ago, i think you can still get it, one of my customer rex odell used it, ( great bloke).
i wiil find out and give more detail in the morning, once the effects of the drink have worn of

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

sorry forgot to add
at 5ft 6 inchs so do most people

regards
peter crouches brother

[alan flynn]

hello

the gerba cutter is a summa, but as colin has said the s class is worth the extra money for speed and the lence on the optical, but as i said to colin when talking to him the t i worth the extra money and that is what we have just got !!!!
regards
alan flynn
ps spandex i love you, you keep me on my toes

[alan flynn]

hello colin
glad your happy, to be fair you should be patting mutoh and summa on the back, they have been making great machines for years and one last word, dont you think the ergo soft is a great rip, we have been selling it for some time and find it really user freindley
regards
alan flynn
ps off to top my wine glass up
sorry one other thing the t series s class i worth the extra money, we have just got a s class 1600 my pride and joy

( aprart from my wife son cars cat and rabbit and sorry frogot to add gold fish and wine collection )

[alan flynn]

hello all

the value jet sells itself and not blowing my own truppet, i said it would, just look at my old postings,
ps, we have a jv375sp and a value jet 1608 and the value jet takes far less looking after, but can print white, but the summa dc4 is far better at that,
less off the waffle, onto the next glass of wine,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello john,
one other thing, talking as a sign maker and not a reseller, i have used 3 third party inks and had trouble with colours fading after about 2 years,
i also have jobs that i have done with my rockhopper 1 using mutoh inks that are still ok after 3 to 4 years,
also jobs we done with our graphtec jx 2000 series after 4 years that are still ok,
so if you only have to do the job once maybe the extra ink cost is money well spent,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello
if you use a 3rd party ink in a machine which is new and under warranty, you can kiss good buy to the warranty on everything in the ink system, and to be fair to mutoh, from what we have seen, 3rd party inks if you get a good batchs they are very good and save you money, but if you get a bad batch, get the camp bed out for the engineer,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all
why dont to try speaking to end users already running the value jet and take there advice, ask spandex for reference sites, or you are welcome to talk to some of mine, some of which were running roland machines,
one thing i can say is we have a cadet plus, jv3sp and value jet in our sign business, the the value jet gives the best output and give us far less trouble
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello chis

sorry my mobile is always on and never stops ringing, so sometime you will get my voice mail, but if i see a missed call i will aways ring back,
sorry but i cant put my mobile up but i have started putting on my adds in sign k#link and sign update,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

i was wondering when people would pick up how good this machines really is, we are going to run 2 1604 machine in our new unit when i can sell all our old machines and trade ins and get in it,
the problem you might have is getting one, they are selling so well the lead time is getting longer and longer,
if you want to talk to people running one we have sold quit a few and my customers are happy to talk to other sign makers,
as for cutters, so all you drag knife manufacturer but there is not a better machine than a t series, but comes at a price, but they go on for ever, so i would say money well spent,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

i think you will find it is a oem creation, the guy who owns foision used to work for creation, and set up on his own about 2 years ago,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

the sc650 have 2 types of board, you need to make sure you get the correct one, the older machines have 2 boards, the newer machines one,
we have some we are breaking for parts, which might have the parts you need, but these machines dont go wrong very often, so i would make sure it needs the parts before laying out money you might not need.

regards
alan flynn

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[alan flynn]

hello all,

terry if you are looking at doming that is were the dc4sx is really good, you only nne to look at summas badge on the machine the mirror silver and blue with doming look great,
you could contact summa direct and ask prick for some samples, they are well worth a look at
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

sorry forgot to say, the dc4 machines are print and cut, and changes ribons itself, unlike the edge, so just send the job and let the machine get on with it and go grab your self a beer,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello ade
you wont go wrong with a graphtec summa mutoh or mimaki, all good machines, but the summa has 3 year on site warranty and the only machine to give mutoh a run for there money on tracking,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello terry
the summa dc4sx is well worth a look at, really good for motorbike and car graphics, and the fact you can print white, silver and gold and many other spot colours means there is a lot you can do with this machine you cant do with a ink jet machine, and the dc4sx retails at £7995, a lot of machine for the money
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello colin

sorry i did call you back but you were out, im not in the office mutch at the moment because we are moving to a bigger showroom,
i will call you and leave my mobile, sorry my answer phone wont let me delete messages, time for a new one
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello colin
great machine, we have one and have sold quite a few, really work well with printing white mirror silver and gold, lots of things you can do you cant on a ink jet, and not labour intesive like the edge,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

sorry dave forgot to say they are the same
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello dave

ink, you may save pennies on ink, way it up against the agro factor and time is money,
i have to say it been a while since mutoh really got it right, in fact the sc series cutter is the best machine they have ever made, and ask any user of one, they are great,
i would say this printer is going to be there sc of the printing machines,
roland and mimaki watch your backs
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

i would say looking at the machines yes,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello martin

sorry but the spandex value jet is really a mutoh value jet, and for the price of the jv5 you could buy 2, have a hoilday with spending money,
mutoh have really got this machine bang on, we have had problems with printers in the past, but this machine really is up there, we have a jv3 75sp, and the value jet prints as good if not better, but on plain colour the
machine is by far the best on the market, i look forward to seeing want people think this time next year,
and all i can say is i told you so !!!!
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello

if your marks are not pure black the opas does not always work, how you can test that is by cutting some black squares and placing them over your printed ones, then try
what rip are you using ?, as rips like ergo soft add the marks automatic
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

if you have a demo or want to compare to the other makes, get them to print solid colour, thats were this machine really comes into its own, my wife wants one !!!!!!!!
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello paul
the value jet is made by motoh and not spandex, we have just come back from sign uk and had a 1.6 running most of the show, printing beeline images, and all i can say is i think this printer will be as good as mutohs sc series cutter, which is one of the best cutters i have sold over the last 14 years,
the motoh weave feature really give all the other machine a run for there money in the way of banding, you wont see any lines in your prints in one of these babys
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello micheal,
we dont sell creation at the moment, however we still stock all the service parts,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

your best bet is get yourself down to a good book shop and place an order for sign writing a craft-mans manual by bill Stewart, he was head of department when i was at hammer smith and west London college and covers almost ever thing
the best money you will spend in learning about signage
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

Hello all,
The reason no rabbit users have been on is probably because their machine might have gone down with myxomatosis.

Joking aside, you certainly get what you pay for with vinyl cutters.
We sell from cheap to very expensive, and at the end of the day its down to the dealer to advise the end user what sort of machine suits their needs. For example:

Clients who deal mainly with In House signage i would advise a cheap budget machine as they are well worth their money

But someone in Production i.e day to day heavy user machines, i would definitely say it is worth spending the extra money for the difference in build quality, material handling, software compatibility and warranty (i.e 3 year on site which i would say is money well spent)

At the end of the day you pay your money and take your choice.

After sales is something you ought to price into your budget.

[alan flynn]

hello, i think you will find your cutter is a summa, so you should be able to pole size it ie get the page size via the software, so the software knows what size media is loaded and is able to cut, or you should be able to contact spandex for tech support
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

how did you get on with the loan machine, if you still had problems then its not the machine, if not and you had say 5 or 7 weeks trouble free printing then the machine would sound like the problem

[alan flynn]

the rip is a re badged ergo soft, which is a really good rip and the contour cutting is so easy to use you cant go wrong,
i have ergo and photo print ( which is flexi rip) server installed and they seem to work fine,
i would contact both tour supplying dealers and hopefully they should help

[alan flynn]

hello graeme
brains discs are the best on the market from my point of view, and i am a reseller and a end user,
we only do fleet work in our sign business and if you work out the cost just over a couple of jobs its money well spent,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello Michael,
i would like to help on this one, but it took me ages to think of my company name,
joking as side if you trade under your own name it proves to customers you are in it for the long term and not a here today gone tomorrow merchant,
good luck
regards
alan flynn
and that name which took me so long to think up
flynn signs

[alan flynn]

you might get two machines, but they would printed printers, which you could hang up on your wall and look at your bargain,
sorry i would not go there,
regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

my son loved the guy, so any one who makes my boy happy is a top man to me,
what more can you say, as long as we never forget him he will never die,

always in our minds

alan and chas flynn

ps keep his work going

[alan flynn]

sorry dennis

i amm going to finnish my drink and go to sign making land, but one thing i would say if you are looking to invest a cnc routher is always worth a look mainly because they hold therse value far more than printers and also they are not just a sign making tool, ie if you get feed up with sign making, with a cnc you can go into kitchen making van ply linningmirror design, were do you want me to stop,
anyway with all theses ideals hopefully you will live untill you are 400 and become a very rich man and rember me inyour will

thanks for sutch an interesting thread

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

thank you john

my typing gets better the more ceap wine i drink, tescos do weel out of me,

regards
alan flynn

ps when they are shut i have been known to drint the light solvent ink, just does not look to good in the morning

[alan flynn]

hello rob

i know one person who will get money out of you even if he does not win, my mate ken, did you pay all your charges, hopefully after all the taxes fast signs may have made some money,
living in the big smokeis not all its cracked up to be,
good luck to the wininer and lets hope you were on foot or public transort

ps rob can you see why in london they are having to get people in scotland down to do our signs, i only live 10 miles down the a10 and you wont get me in central london for all the tea in china
and theres a lot we have just started to import signmakers tea, watch this space,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello all

nice to see trade people thinking longer term,

1 dennis your dealer would not be a roland dealer by any chance, the reason i ask that is roland are the only manufacturer to still make a print and cut machine,

2 there are many down falls with print and cut with one machine, i to many years ago wanted print and cut in one machine, until i got the edges of my prints curling up, could not cut while printing and print while cutting,

3 if you buy a cutter with optical it can work with any printer you buy and also any number of printers, always remember printers have a far shoerts shelf life that printers, and also devalue far quicker, so less resale or trade in value,

4 you are bang on about uv problems, this is from my point of view only thought jobs i have done with many different types of ink, but i find oil based ink far more UV stable than light solvent, i have done jobs with mutoh oil based ink which are still ok after 3 years but jobs i have done with light solvent have droped yellows and reds in 18 mouths,
please not this is from out jobs and our uses read into this what you can,
i am only trying to give advice as inks dont switch my switch if you know what i mean,

5 vinly wont total vanish, but 15 years ago i could make a good living out of driving a brush, not any more, one leason i have had to learn is dont be afraid of change, or you can get left behind,

6 i also could never have earned as much as i have with a bush, as with vinyl over the years i have been able to turn over far more work, and with adding a printer i amsure that will also be the cases, but if you go print and cut, dont be affaid of a printer and a cutter with optical as it could be well worth the leaning curve

hope this has added to the interest

regards

alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello jamie,
i dont know why you cant get me, i am away at the moment, but my phone is switched on, if you are having problems feel free to give me a call,

regards
alan flynn

[alan flynn]

hello shane, the only way to look at this, is there is only one loser in this and thats him, if you have given him a good sevice at that sort of credit terms he will be the loser, this has happen to me before and in over 22 years of trading i have moved on to bigger and better customers,on ward and up ward, what goes around comes around, replace him with with better customers and if he calls again double the price and tell him you cant fit him in for 8 weeks

[alan flynn]

yes, i have 2 who do work for me

[alan flynn]

hello richard

glad to hear they came up trumps, we use to use nat west insurance and they gave us little notice and nfu came to the rescue, they were great,
did you get your free wellies

[alan flynn]

hello helen

if you convert to wire frame, then export as a plt file, you should find that works with artcut,
if you purchased this machine and software of a dealer, then should be able to support you with this sort of problem,

[alan flynn]

hello all,

darren, who has worked for me for about 20 years, if he cant weed it i would say it cant be weeded,
although my dad always said to me there is no such word as cant, until it came to pocket money day,
glad to see dave has also said an employee, as they are by far your greatest asset

[alan flynn]

hello adam,

if the machine came with artcut it should work with that, as well as pc sign,
which would sound like a faulty machine,
however as peter said, your supplying dealer of the the cutters or the software should be able to get you up and running over the phone, if there is no fault with the machine, if there is, this is when you find out how good there warranty is

[alan flynn]

hello paul

feel really sorry for you, i did the same thing, i went head first of a scaffold tower, breaking both at the same times makes thing a bit difficult, but its surprising what you can do when you have to,

the worst thing i found was round door handles, very difficult to open with 2 arms in plaster,

hope you get well soon

[alan flynn]

talking about old english, a good use would be a birthday card to me, as i am feeling a bit old, but you know what they say you are as old as the woman you feel,
well dont ask me how old bev is, or you will be sending me a zimmer

[alan flynn]

nice design, looks like air brush work, the sort of thing you would see in signcratf mag, nice to see some flair,
of to check on michael owens foot, then have a drink, in fact lots of drinks

[alan flynn]

what about hobo, this is one type face that really does not flick my switch,
but seem quite popular, (:)

[alan flynn]

hello jenny

if you go to arrange, go down to convert to, then click to polyarc, you can get great curves,
if you want to then go back to the other control points, just go back to convert to, and re click on polygon, and it will give you the old type of control points,
hope this is of help,
i am off know to look at rooneys foot, i will let you know the results tomorrow

[alan flynn]

hello all,

maybe the name makes people think of brighter and warmer places, if you are really worried about the look, you can always go for the suttle look, white letting on a white background,
joking aside, this type of font works well as a headline font, if you cover the job with it you loose its impact,

[alan flynn]

we where with nat west for years, then they said that did not want to do insurance anymore.
so after a lot of phone calls, national farmers union came out best by far,
and we got a free pair of wellies

[alan flynn]

hello nancy

i like to think i am not late so happy birthday for next year, in advanced, happy 25 th,
you never know you might get a big red car !

[alan flynn]

hello all,

peter bills book makes very good reading, he was the head of department when i was at hammersmith and west london, john gibbs ans Graham powell, hope i have spelled there names correct where our main teachers,

i have been watching my son chas play in a football tournament, they got to semi final, and after that helped the other dads prop the bar up,
happy days
thank you for all your relays

as you can see grammer and selling is not my strong point, drink to blame

[alan flynn]

hello all

sounds like a normal day in the sign trade, dont you just love it?, but all part of the learning curve,

regards
alan flynn