[Andrew Blackett]

phill,

we just supply this sheet to our customers:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andyblacke … ormats.pdf

then they can’t really go wrong!
I’ll let you use it if you want 😉 but don’t forget to take off the engraving section

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

OH the shame of it all!!! 😳 😳 😳 …………………………………….I’ll get me coat!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

hi all,

firstly………….

well done steve excellent shot mate!!!!!!!! 😉

and rob,

have you looked in the europoint price list, they have this webbing tape stuff thats meant to bond euroflute face to face, may work on foam board. Or just try a really good double sided tape. We use this Scotch tape stuff, we stick our memorial plaques onto stakes using it and never had any complaints of plaques falling off!

If you don’t need to prise them apart afterwards what about a really good contact adhesive???????

Or…

if you’re intending to bond end to end what about fitting a strut piece spanning the gap between the 2 sheets of board and glueing that?

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Glad you’ve got a good sense of humour phill!

I did one for one of the girls at work and stuck it inside her office, she’s still not totally happy about it!!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Two second job really brian!!!

Used Kai’s Power Goo

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

rob,

saw you were struggling with this, does this help

sorry phill, couldn’t help myself 😉

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

sorry bob I meant forex, I always get the two confused! Don’t worry though all my signs are still up (to my knowledge anyway 😉 )

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Stupid question here lads but…………..

if I did need to fix a sheet of foamex straight to a wall or whatever, what would be the best way to do it, and to prevent warping?? 😕

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

hi tim,

couple of images of “men hoovering”

any good??

ANDY

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Attachments:

manhoovering.ai

[Andrew Blackett]

Christ Phill, how old are you 🙄 😉

Jennifer Lopez – If You Had My Love

And you didn’t look very hard mate

http://printandsign.com/If_You_Had_My_Love.mid

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Glad you’re enjoying the boards brian, we are all a helpful bunch so if you ever need anything just ask.

Thursday nights at 9pm (GMT) are chat nights which are always a laugh, vent your frustrations and discuss your day. Hope to see you there sometime

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Nice one Brian,

I made a tape dispenser out of a towel rail and some scraps of mdf and pine!!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

where do you get yours from lorraine? how much?
do you have any tips for me, on applying graphics to my car?

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

perfecto!! 😀

thanks for that lorraine,

i would of course buy one of brians cd’s but this is the first car I’ve ever done (my own!!!) if anyone has any tips, please feel free to share 😉

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Hi Paul,

Nice to see someone new on the boards. I used to spend a lot of time in blackpool as a kid (illuminations were always great) we used to stay in gynn square area.

Hope you like the boards so far, we are a friendly lot, and don’t forget thursday nights are chat nights!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

got to say it doesn’t seem very dangerous, doesn’t make my chest tight (some of the stuff at work does!) and I’ve had all over my hands but no problems. I haven’t had any experience of it in my eyes, I’ll squirt some in tommorrow and let you know how it goes 😀

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

damn it!

why must i have a rep from durham, he doesn’t give out any freebies 😥

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Hello all,

Help yourself rob! (to the file i mean, don’t get any funny ideas you 😮 )

You should be able to open it OK gray, if not let me know and I can email it across in word format.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

mine ain’t that flash, but i did get them for free (250) (www.vistaprint.co.uk) Its better than crossing out my bosses name and crudely writing mine over the top 😳

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

I wish i’d known that as well, would of saved a lot of posts 🙂
I asked Cameron @ Glasgow branch they didn’t have them, must be a more popular thing in the North 😉

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

We have the same problem that lorraine has, people just don’t think about what/how they are exporting graphics. Thats why I created this for them:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andyblacke … ormats.pdf

Then if they don’t get it right, send them an invoice for digitising it 😉

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

I used to use the jigsaw myself lorraine but found it difficult to get a true square line. That in itself ain’t a problem for vinyl signs but if we are engraving laminates etc the edge needs to be totally flat for it to sit square on the bed. (if its slightly off the text will with out a doubt go all to pot!)

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

we don’t on our color-camm, its just something we didn’t really think was worth the money! To be honest with roland machines if anything is gonna go wrong (and it will!) it’ll more than likely get it out of its system in the first year. So any repairs would be under warranty!

And the only thing that may go wrong after that is the head, but it doesn’t go that often (I hope 😳 )

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

and enough ink! 😉

but seriously, I don’t have one of these but I do have a colorcamm and one thing that is of paramount importance is to make sure everything is clean, especially vinyl and print head.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

hi,

click on profile at the top of the screen, scroll down until you see the signature box, you can type whatever you want into it.

You don’t need to do anything fancy to your web address to make it a hyperlink just type it in,you can add images as well.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

no problem oreo,

thanks very much for trying anyway mate! I had the same problem some time ago getting a response from them.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Just to let everyone know, I’ve got one!!!!!!!! 😀 (roller i mean!)

£5.25 for a 6 incher, not bad that. My local art shop was very obliging and I also managed to get an x-acto knife (again something I’ve been after for a while)

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

8.30 in the morning till 5pm, with allowance for overtime if its needed!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Thanks rob,

I suppose you’re right about the pressure on the handle issue! Right mate, as my grasp of german ain’t that good (well its non existant 😳 ) can you tell me if there is a uk supplier of these rollers??

Sharon,

Did you get the details I sent to you on enamel/doming kits??

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

course i will bob not a problem,

it may take some time though as its "big brother season" here in the uk (you know the programme where they lock 10 people in a house together and watch their every move) and with live around the clock coverage on cable, reading will take the back burner!!! 😆

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Would appreciate that rob, hows the spring clean been going? Not sure how difficult an application roller could be to use like 😉
Put graphic on substrate and roll (Nah seems pretty straight forward to me!! 😆 )

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Thanks Phill,

I’ve had a look on a few websites for a table saw but none have the ability to cut 1220mm with a straight edge. Closest I’ve found up to now is 800mm using guide rail.

What make is the one you’ve got and I’ll do some more searching.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

thanks oreo,

We would be looking to buy 2 j-rollers,

address as follows:

cleveland studios limited
attadale house
lingfield way
darlington
county durham
dl1 4gd
england

If you can get a price from them that would be brilliant. I really appreciate your help on this one mate. If they refuse to ship to uk if you can work exactly what you would need to ship it to me we can arrange something from there. I am buying one on behalf of a friend so would need to OK price with him first.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Thanks for that Phill,

I have seen this on some websites before but I have never committed to buying it. I’m very sceptical about buying things like books over the net because the sites don’t go into too much detail so you never really know what you’re getting !

However….
I’ve just been on amazon.co.uk and bought a copy £29.95 + £2.75 postage

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Hi Oreo,

welcome to the boards mate, its good that we are getting more international members on here, gives us a chance to learn the ways of others (sounds like a line from star wars or something!)

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Have you tried here John:

http://www.fiery.com/support/download.fhtml

There’s contact details on there too

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

hi John,

Just pulled this out of the novajet manual, I don’t have one of these myself but it may help. Off the record, on our colorcamm we sometimes get cartridge error when the machine is looking for cartridge but it isn’t installed. For example if I set a job up using spot blue but neglet to install the cartridge (yes it has happened!) it just stops. You have I take it installed all the necesary cartridges for the job??

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andyblacke … nition.pdf

you may of already tried it but you never know it may work

ANDY
(If it appears I’m out of my depth I’m sorry, just trying to help!)

[Andrew Blackett]

illuminated sign box with transparent vinyl applied???
if thats not it I give up, email me with the right answer please Phill or I won’t be able to sleep!! 😉

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

hi phill,

reflective vinyl, or black light paint?

or even photoluminesent (thats not how you spell it but you get my gist!!!)

anywhere near ??

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Thanks lads,

The only thing I am worried about is that they need to be changed quite regularly, and I’m just a bit concerned that they won’t be. Any comments?

We have the same problem with the direx system (very expensive and a pain to work with!)

How do you actually fit the vista sign to the wall?

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

This is it:

Hope this helps you figure out what it is!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

I would like to see some design ideas too, I’m sick of our vinyl falling off the shelf (the one that my boss decided to make only 8" deep!)

He won’t buy me a rack, but he did go ballastic when a 50m roll fell off bounced off the colorcamm 😥 (don’t worry she survived it 🙂 ) and smashed the two week old microsoft scroll mouse into 6 little pieces

help me, please!

andy

[Andrew Blackett]

don’t worry about it bob, nice to see a new face on the boards. I’m sure that last paragraph of your initial post is a view shared by a lot of the members of the board, they might not say it though 😉

andy

[Andrew Blackett]

it was the 900 series, is that what you use. If you don’t mind me asking how much do you pay?

I get all of our stuff from vinyl logistics, intercoat 9600 series, 610mm, £1.40 a metre 😆

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

I figured out who it was paul,

avery

I got a price from williaam cox today :

£6.50 a metre 😮 😮

Is it magic vinyl??

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

no gray,

even my signs from when I first started looked better than that!!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

i’m not totally sure,

one of the lads in the workshop has a deal going with "marcell guest" but I don’t know which one it is he uses.

Can you suggest anything?

ANDY

PS I got a flyer through the door today advertising a vinyl with 163 colour choices but I can’t think who makes it, does it ring any bells with you?

[Andrew Blackett]

thanks paul,

I’ll do a few sample swatches tommorow and see which looks best 🙂

andy

[Andrew Blackett]

I heard from Brett (one of the technicians at Roland) that when the temperature of the head is higher you get a much denser print, he did change ours to that to show us but then reverted it back again.

I don’t know whether or not you could control it from something like signlab though, Brett had to do it with a 26 finger combination of button presses to access it!!

Apparantly though Roland only introduced the higher temp. settings to try and put people off buying "zeronine" ribbons for their machines, hasn’t stopped me though. The ones we get from Thermal Products UK work better than the originals anyway and are half the price AND there is a slightly larger range of spot colours.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

cheers rob,

Do you use signlab or just corel, we’ve just got colourmaster version 5 installed at work and the fella that brought it (simon from lettering systems) showed me how to do the digitise part in signlab but I can’t for the life of me remember how, any ideas?

The other problem is I haven’t sussed out how to contour cut around a jpeg image properly, if for example the image was this:

The cut line would be like the dotted one where as I want it like this:

Any ideas or know anyone who might??

Did you manage to upload the pics I sent, if I can get the boss to have a look at them tommorow I might be able to persuad him to pay for my membership 🙂 What sort of discount(s) do you get on the vinyl?

UP THE COLOR-CAMMS!!! (I hope nobody takes that as an obsenity)

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

I did the colour chart thing within the first week of having it.

Rob, what do you do if you have to print an image from a jpg file such as a customer logo, you obviously can’t adjust the colours within that, especially with jpegs because it can be obvious that you have changed colours as the fades don’t match.

Any ideas mate!

Its gonna be one of my questions when I see the guys on the roland stand next Wednesday

And my machine is a pc-600 not 60, I’m not showing off I’m just proud of my baby 🙄
ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

version 8, I can do it in 4 if its any easier gray

andy

[Andrew Blackett]

Right get a load of these eddie:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andyblackett/trucks.cdr

All ready for cutting as well! 🙂
And it wasn’t clip art so you owe me a drink sometime! 😆
Hope it helps

Andy

[Andrew Blackett]

What we do is this:

If its to be printed, providing it is of reasonable quality, we don’t charge any extra for the setup. I only charge for the amount of vinyl and ribbons involved.

If it is to be engraved or cut, we charge anywhere between £10 – £20. It may seem a good thing to charge more at the time, but you are more likely to get the customer back if you give them a competitive quote.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

fire away whenever you are ready!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Thanks rob,

its not panatrim, its some cheap plastic extrusion. Its the same old problem you see a cheap price and automatically think it’ll be a great product, but hey ho at least I’m learning from my mistakes! 😉

I’ve just emailed the makers of panatrim for a brochure, hopefully something will come of it.

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Yep Rob, if you ever need help with engraving let me know! if I don’t know someone else will.

We have a new big-bed machine as well which will engrave a sign 600mm wide by almost infinate length, so don’t turn away those bigger signs as we might be able to help!

ANDY

[Andrew Blackett]

Have a look at http://www.victory-design.co.uk

they sell it on a 1m roll which you can get slit down to whatever size you need. I run it through our pc-600 and it always comes out perfectly.

ANDY