[Angelique Muller]

I just ordered a new part here:
http://www.creation.com.hk/eng/onlineshop.asp
not in the UK but postage is reasonable…..
hope this helps..

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for the tip Merv, I have been in touch and they are perfect for what I am looking for.

[Angelique Muller]

quote Merv Daly:

quote Angelique Muller:

Hiya.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good t-shirt supplier in Ireland?
Ideally one is good for small orders, posts out quickly and does not charge too much for postage?
I have been ordering from the UK, but prefer to get them a bit closer to home if possible.
And if they also did long sleeved FOTL kids t-shirts.. that would be completely brilliant.
thanks

Caramba in Finglas are the guys you need to speak to.

Thanks for that. I did come across their website but was unable to log in. I have send them an email….

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks all.. Sorry for the late reply…. been busy with other things…
It seems to be working well for me at the moment (although I try to limit the number I cut.) I did notice that the USB connection is a bit loose and I propped it up a bit… Either way, it is doing the job for me at the moment

[Angelique Muller]

quote NeilRoss:

Larger volumes might point to the device working harder/longer and heating up. If it’s overheating that could be the cause but it’s a long shot.

hmmm… possible I suppose… but I don’t think I was asking to much of it… I think in general that my cutter has a prett cushy life with the little bit of work that I do.. So for the first time in its life I actually put it to work properly and it starts protesting!
I will see how it will act tonight…. fingers crossed and hope for the best?!?

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for your help Neil. Yes. it has all been working fine in the past. But usually I cut only one at a time. This time I asked it to do 3 of the same (quite a complex design) so maybe it was struggling with the data? Twice it stopped, but at different places.
A reset did fix it (temporarily). Maybe I should just stick to cutting one at a time…….? 😮

and yes… would love to upgrade don’t know if it is possible). Or maybe just a new laptop?!?!? (wish hubby picked up on my frequent cursing as it keeps crashing on me, and got me a new one… Maybe I should just go out and buy one!)

[Angelique Muller]

quote NeilRoss:

Does it have a security dongle. Is it slack?

Yes… I have a dongle… What do you mean with slack: poor connection?
Looks okay and I certainly was not touching it whilst cutting….
I am running the cutter from my laptop that has Vista (because I can’t get the cutter to work from my old computer with XP…. But that’s a different problem for some other time) 😀

[Angelique Muller]

Hiya, thanks for responses.. I use Signblazer.
Computer did not go to sleep: I was not cutting that many.. it took about 10 minutes or so to cut

[Angelique Muller]

WOW!!!

[Angelique Muller]

I use Signblazer as well.
If there is anyway I can help: export files to PDF to EPS or something… let me know…..

Forgot to mention that I did encounter problems with it on the new office computer (with windows 7).. After an update it kept telling me that the software key (dongel) could not be found…. Never looked into it really as that computer moved and I use my laptop or old XP computer for cutting……. 🙄

[Angelique Muller]

Just a note to say that I got all my bags printed with the tranfer paper I got yesterday… phew..
So what I learned this month is: that a low budget heat press can do the job… but low budget paper can’t.
At least I know better for next time.
Thanks for your help 😀

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

I have bought stuff of these people before Angelique. Worth a call maybe? http://corkartsupplies.com/

Thanks Harry. I rang half of Cork today. I was quite amazed how hard it is to get the transfer paper.
Plenty of places in the UK or online, but with the time frame in mind I had to get it somewhere more local.
Anyway.. a stationary place in Bantry is helping me out and have put in a special order for me. I should have it tomorrow afternoon.
Fingers crossed that this is a better quality….

I am learning the hard way….

😀

[Angelique Muller]

Well,,, I have just been experimenting… My conclusion: it is the paper…. I printed some of the old paper I had and that transfers without any problem.
The other stuff is so hit and miss. Every now an then it goes okay (more often not), but I have to peel it straight away.. a few second too late and it stays on the paper… I suppose with a small piece it is easy, but with a larger sheet that is hard!
So trying to source good quality paper locally (that could be tricky)….
Any suggestions for a supplier in West Cork?

[Angelique Muller]

quote Alan Drury:

Are you sure the issue is with the paper and not your press?
Alan D

It is possible?!?
I had loads of issues with the initial press they send me: it did not get hot enough. This replacement works okay I think: it heats up well (there is a few degrees difference between what the display says and what I read with a probe), but it is heating to 180 degrees no problem.
According to the instructions I should set the temperature between 160-180 degrees, press for 10 seconds and then peel hot.
When I did not get a good result I cranked up the temperature and increased the time (as it did not seem to come of the paper). But then the paper became brown… I am sure it was too hot…
I am sure it is me and I am just wondering what the best way is to get the settings right…
I hope I did not buy poor quality paper that I am wasting my time on… I did not buy expensive stuff (okay it was cheap: 100 sheets for £ 32, compared to many other papers)..
Should I go out and buy different paper, or keep fiddling with the settings?

[Angelique Muller]

It is not sublimation, I am using a ‘normal’ inkjet printer…
My little sample last week worked brilliant… but on the A4 size I can’t get it working…..
😮

[Angelique Muller]

77

That was fun!!! 😀

[Angelique Muller]

quote Mo Gillis-Coates:

Just a note about el cheapo machines… I have a t shirt press that I bought 2 years ago off ebay for £150, still working just fine…. as long as you maintain stuff it’s ok. It’s paid for itself many times over.

What kind of maintenance is involved?!? My ‘manual’ did not mention any…… 😮

[Angelique Muller]

Stay away from the el-cheapo’s on ebay….
just got one myself (to go with my equally dodgy cutter) and had quite an ordeal with it..
They finally send me a replacement and this one is working… hurray.
If you have the time to figure it all out it is okay:
the ‘manual’ is quite a hillarious A4 sheet…… you get what you pay for 😀

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for all hints and tips..
I spend ages trying to do something clever and more exciting only to realize that I was wasting my time as the highly opinionated customer (ie. husband) did not want anything like that!
So I ended up changing the type font to a classic Mrs. Eaves and I quite like that one …
I hope that, although it is very simple, it won’t offend anyone….

The idea of the background is nice.. something to keep in mind when it comes to designing the website etc.

Thanks again all!

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Thanks for that Martin & David.

I see the point about the colour… I like a burgundy, but I feel it should work in black and white as well.

I like what you did Martin, with the little swirl. I tried a few things like that but it became quite feminine in my opinion… Yours makes it more of logo rather than a letterhead… I like that.
I find the ‘J’ a bit of a problem… somehow I can’t get it to work, but I had not thought about using a shade of grey… good thinking….. It is certainly food for thought.. will try to do something with it on the weekend and let you know what I have come up with….
Thanks

[Angelique Muller]

This is what I had come up with…..
I just tried a ‘classic’ serif font combined with something more modern for a contemporary feel…..
Husband is pretty happy with it, but I feel as if it is lacking something…. but not sure what it is…. As I said before, I am looking for some critique to move it along a bit.

I read in previous threads last week that some people feel that the forum is used as a free design service. I hope, because I am in infrequent user of this forum that I don’t get chucked into that category……Unfortunately in my circle of friends I have nobody I can ask for feedback, as this kind of work is not of much interest to them.
I have just purchased some books on-line to help me with this kind of work, but I find that critique on something I work on is more helpful than reading about the subject….

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quote Simon Worrall:

Angelique I dont think your upload was successful, unless this is your way of saying that you havent come up with anything 🙂
Simon

Thanks for letting me know… when I posted it up I checked and it appeared allright… I can try again…unless I did something that broke the board rules, and it was removed?!?(don’t think so)

[Angelique Muller]

Thank you all.
I will have another fiddle with it.
Instead of a big poster… the present might become a smaller version. It is the thought that counts after all :lol1:

[Angelique Muller]

quote Dave Bruce:

Baltimore south of Skibbereen.

Dave

Must be the skibbereen area they don’t like as they won’t deliver to me either….(I am in Goleen)

[Angelique Muller]

quote John Harding:

I think its good enough now unless youre being paid a fortune 😀

Maybe I am…………(not really)

I hope this is good enough.. I have been staring it so long now… can’t see straight anymore…..

Thank you all very much for your input!

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Can do as you say.. no problem Nicola.. but for some reason my eye gets drawn to the space aroung the ‘T’. Not sure why, or what to do about it…

(it is amazing how much time one can spend moving letters a fraction of a mm…..) :lol1:

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks Chris,
I have brought it in line with the ‘m’ of mount.

I think it is time I re-read all the books on type font and design as those rules are slowly coming back to me……………………

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Thanks for your help Martin, John and Glenn.

I followed your suggestions.. is this better?

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Well… that is unanimous then!
With your permission Harry, I might take your suggestion and work with it. I might just try a few other fonts with it.

[Angelique Muller]

quote Shane Drew:

quote Angelique Muller:

It was a special day indeed with Killian turning 3!

I remember you having him Angelique, doesn’t time fly

Did I ever mention he had a sister almost a year ago? This is Annabel..

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quote Harry Cleary:

I think your first one has something going for it. Here’s a quick go from me.

Thanks for that Harry… the second one is the design that he wants to change.
I like what you did: the ‘M’ with the two roofs.

[Angelique Muller]

It was a special day indeed with Killian turning 3!

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So Rob….. how is your head this morning? :lol1:

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quote Robert Lambie:

Can depend on how the address read… some folk can and do get cnfused by an email and a web address next to each other. or mistake one for the other…
depends how its laid out to look at a glance. e.g.

http://www.WEBSITE.com
http://www.website.com
www.website.com
www.website.com
website.com
website.com
WEBSITE.com

T: 01242 8786O867
M: 0872 665 8980
F: 01242 79707097
E: sales@website.com
W: http://www.website.com

.

Thanks for that! Food for thought!!!! 😀

[Angelique Muller]

quote sandydruimfin:

Hi, thanks. My Pcut is just USB. I’m slowly starting to get my head round it all after reading a few more posts. I think if I could get the Found New Hardware Wizard to launch I might just be able to nail it. Tried the Add New Hardware Wizard from the control panel but no joy there either. Any idea how to get the wizard to launch?
I have the user manual & software disk & followed all instructions to a T so why is am I having so much trouble?? :shake:

Did you get/install the driver?

Although I am very happy with my cutter & Signblazer software (as I don’t do that much work on it) it is always a complete pain to install and get it running.
I had problems when installing it on windows 7 and more recently to get it cutting from the old computer that I set-up next to the P-Cut. After installing the driver and connecting it via USB it somehow came up as COM5 that I had to select for cutting. Don’t ask me why (when I cut from my laptop it is COM 4, even when connected to the USB).
So my advice is: throw all logic out of the window and try to select every port in the list in the Signblazer software. Eventually something will work…..hopefully…… a lot of cursing and swearing during this process helps too (to manage the frustration!!!!)
Good luck with it! 😛

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

🙂 🙂

I got this from the Sanity Clause for xmas. Very interesting book, especially the history of Comic Sans chapter.
http://www.amazon.com/Just-My-Type-Abou … 201&sr=8-1

Same here, my husband gave it to me for christmas… Have not finished it yet, but it is a very interesting read indeed! 😀

[Angelique Muller]

quote Dave Rowland:

Angel, your a sweetheart x
Just press play and then pause.. let the bar fill up… then unpause 🙂

Don’t worry Dave, every now and then I have to vent my frustration about the broadband ‘service’ that we have. Not that it is of any use: I would change provider……….if there was an alternative.

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for those links Dave!
(All i need now is a decent internet connection so I can actually watch you-tube clips in one go..…)

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

Are you sending by PDF Angelique? I usually convert any photos to CYMK in the PDF settings…never noticed a problem before.

I just tried that and it seems to be better!! That is good… only thing is that I don’t really understand why…… What is the difference? The converting is within the same program?!?
I think I need to read some books to explain to me what is actually happening. I would love to understand these things properly.
Are there any books out there that one can recommend?

[Angelique Muller]

As far as I know you can’t use the registration marks in the basic package.
To e-mail designs to a customer I copy it to photoshop and save as JPEG…
Alternatively you can export it as PDF (not sure if this is possible in the trial version……..)

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for all your comments. The change is not huge, but a while back I send an image of for printing business cards. When it came back I was hugely disappointed with it. I would not like to repeat that. I would just hope that what I see on my screen will be close to the actual print.. But without proofs it will always be a risk?!?

[Angelique Muller]

quote Dave Rowland:

some dongles light up when they are in use.

i thought the system restore/windows update must have done something, I couldn’t think of anything else.

Yep… mine lights up… So if it was the windows update… what do I do? Re-install?

[Angelique Muller]

quote RayRosher:

Windows do an automatic update on the 2nd Tuesday of every month,
if you have auto updates turned on, it is possible that windows change something in it’s system that could have caused your problem also you say you have the program on a laptop have you tried that to make sure that it’s no the dongle

yep dongel is working fine.. used it yesterday without a problem

[Angelique Muller]

quote Mark Nihotte:

Hi Angelique – is it a Rainbow (Sentinel) dongle? – if so you may need to update the drivers for your port from their web site ( we have Graphix Advantage and as they changed to Omega after Win 98 we have to load the appropriate drivers for whichever OS to get the dongle recognised and the program working…albeit with bugs)

Cheers

Mark

I don’t know what kind of dongel it is.. there is no name on it, just a label saying S.B Hotshot (the software).
I am just confused as it worked perfectly initially 😮

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

😀 😀
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2 … raphs.html

:rofl:

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for that Andrew. But I just found out that MDP does a good delivery service to Ireland now.

[Angelique Muller]

soldering iron?!?!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Steve Morgan:

I like the door style, it’s similar to a popular door style used over here in the 30’s.
Dark green sounds good, I’m really crap at colour combinations so I often look at this Adobe site for inspiration.

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30

Steve

I like that!!! Very handy……………..

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks all for your advice. I had the meeting with the client and he was not too pushed about the reflective vinyl, so I think we will do it with normal vinyl . I might order a sample so I can get some idea of what it is like to work with for future projects…….

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for all the advice!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

Are the edges exposed Angelique? That is the problem area with ply, I would use Marine ply for long term outdoor prestige work and WPB for lesser stuff and I would always try to frame it in some way.
Make sure to radius all the edges slightly as the paint skin is prone to crack along sharp edges as it expands and contracts.
You will be fine with Alu primer 2 u/cs and 2 topcoats….make sure to key the surface between the two topcoats.
And advise the owner to have it varnished at 2/3 year intervals if he wants it to last.

Thanks Harry,
It seems really hard to get marine ply: the timber yard here does not stock it and has to order it in especially. They always tell me that unless the ply is submerged in water WPB is fine……
I will take on board your advice of the radius to the edges and then hope for the best. The ply is going into a metal frame but the edges will be exposed to the elements….

[Angelique Muller]

quote Jillbeans:

Hi Angelique, nice to see you around.
😀
When I do a plywood sign (which used to be all I did at one time) I buy exterior grade plywood from a nearby lumberyard, not a big box store. I hand-pick it to make sure it’s not warped or full of “footballs”.
I cut it to size, sand the edges, blow off the dust with an air gun.
Then I seal the edges with two coats of Titebond 2 wood glue.
Then I prime with KILZ brand primer (it’s water based)
Then sand, blow off, wipe off, then I use 1-Shot or Ronan lettering enamel.
I dump a puddle of it in the middle of the sign and roll it out with a foam roller.
The last pass I hold the roller with my other hand and sort of just drag it across the panel, to break any bubbles.
It rarely needs another coat.
I use the roller to do the edges of the sign too.

Love….Jill

Hih Jill

Thanks for your reply.
I have used high grade WPB and it is a very good surface.
The product you talk about are brand names that I have not heard of over here, so can you expand on what they are exactly? Is the woodglue a PVA? And the 1-shot paint; is that an enamel paint or just a oil-based gloss?

Thanks

Angelique

[Angelique Muller]

quote Dave Rowland:

Word! shudder the thought!

Sorry for upsetting you…… :lol1:

[Angelique Muller]

quote Tim Painter:

Clear as mud…but I hope some help.

Yeah right!!
So just so blondy here understands it all correctly:
-it does not matter that the PDF file looks exactly like I want it, the moment the printer gets it, they will shrink to fit and the lay-out gets messed up?
-Converting from Word can mess up the colours.
-setting the A4 in panels of 100 mm, 100 mm and 98 mm adds up to be 298mm: A4 is 297mm. Any reason for this mm difference?
I will redo the brochure in Illustrator on the weekend and this will tell if I really understood everything. But if it comes out of my home printer okay, does that mean it will be okay for the printers?

[Angelique Muller]

quote Peter Dee:

Any printer will shudder at the thought of having to use graphic artwork produced in Word. It will be a struggle at every step.
You also have to check that the output is CMYK not RGB.

Why is that? I have no problem re-doing it in Ilustrator or Coreldraw (and Corel used to be a problem I found……)
The moment you turn it into a pdf-file (as requested by the printers) I thought it would not make any difference in what software it was made?

[Angelique Muller]

quote Tim Painter:

If you use the full A4 page to design in or have bleed off the edges ‘Shrink to fit’ will scale it down to fit the printable area of you printer. If your design is smaller ‘scale to fit’ will enlarge the design to fit the printable area of your printer.

aha thanks for explaining that!

But if I do the design in Word or Illustrator does not make any difference to the printing area?!? The same problem would occur?!?!
I am just not sure that when I mail the pdf file (that looks right) to the printers, if it comes out as I want in terms of the layout on paper……

[Angelique Muller]

Thank you all!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Peter Normington:

Sorry I think I misunderstood
is the dibond panel is flood coated with black vinyl?
peter

yes

[Angelique Muller]

quote Phill:

Have you tried to polish the scratch out using “T” cut ?

No it is actually to deep to polish it. I did smooth the scratch with my nail and put black paint on it and wiped it then of with a tissue. It looks a bit better and I am sure the customer won’t complain (going by the amount of bird-sh*t that is on it most of the time, he is not too bothered by its appearance). It is just that I see the board very often and I know it will bother me more!!!

[Angelique Muller]

Okay… as I said.. I think there might be something wrong with the hub.. but, in theory, if the hub is working fine there should be no problem with the computer recognising the dongel in another location?
It’s just that on my laptop I have marked to correct port because in the other one it won’t recognise it…..
I mean.. there is no need for re-installing or so?

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks but I am actually starting to wonder f there is something wrong with the hub as the mouse won’t work either…..
I must look into it a bit more…..
Thanks for the help!!!

[Angelique Muller]

Hmmmmmmm right.. no it is not a high speed.
I suppose I’d better get the extension cable out again so…. 😮

[Angelique Muller]

quote Graeme Harrold:

Can you not just leave the dongle in a primary port on the computer………plug something else into the hub e.g. the mouse or keyboard

Well the port is on the back of the computer (i had a little extension lead to the desk previously). I thought the hub would sort the problem and have all the cables neatly tidied up……

[Angelique Muller]

Hiya… regards from West Cork!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Peter Normington:

Get your local engineering shop to drill the correct size hole through a piece of 25mm bar stock 50-80 mm in length and use it as a guide?
or even a piece of plastic or wood would do if done in a drill press.

Peter

That’s how I do it… I have a little block with different sizes holes in it that I use as a guide.

[Angelique Muller]

Are you sure it is about not getting the scooter?
The end of the film ‘Ferris Bueller’s day off’ comes to my mind….
maybe a cry for attention?!? 😮

[Angelique Muller]

That’s what I was thinking… I take a cable from the router to the workshop and then put the repeater there. I don’t fancy running the cables trough the house (location of the router makes it a bit tricky). Does the length of cable infuence the speed of the connection?
But I think there is something fishy about the repeater: I have been trying in the house: When I do auto connect and it has found the router I move it around the place on an extension lead. Then it works. But when I unplug it into another socket it keeps searching and seems unable to find the router again………. stupid thing!!!

[Angelique Muller]

I am getting pretty fed up with this repeater. It seems to pick up the signal from our wireless music system (philips WAC streamium) rather than the router from the computer….
I thinking of be putting in a cable from the house to the workshop. Any reason why I shouldn’t? I’ll just bury it under the grass and see how long it will last without any protection around it…………

[Angelique Muller]

I can access files on the other computer. Internet is working but incredibly slow (can’t really work with it like that). But what I find strange is that when the repeater is halfway between the router and the workshop the computer in the workshop won’t pick up a signal, yet when it is in the workshop 10 metres or so away from the router it IS!?!?
The walls of the house and workshop are thick: cavity walls with insulation between (+insulated plasterboard on the internal walls), but I have placed both the repeater and the network adapter in front of the windows. Between the 2 buildings there is nothing to obstruct the signal, it’s just open space.

Dave: what do you mean with using electric mains as a network?!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Phill:

http://www.scienceprog.com/increase-wireless-signal-strength-in-few-minutes/

Worth a try?

Been there, done that… I tried the cheap ‘blue peter’-options, but I thought the repeater was the way to go.
I just tried by plugging the thing in in the workshop: bit of result. Good signal strength and I can access the network fine, but internet is still a problem………………….bizarre!!
I think I have just reached my limit of messing about with computer stuff…. I will try again tomorrow……….

[Angelique Muller]

I have made them as I could not get the size I needed. I used WPB grade plywood (3/4") painted in with gloss paint. Instead of chain I used timber battens as they are all used in very windy locations. It prevents them from blowing over (but wander around the pavement instead now :o)

[Angelique Muller]

quote Ian Johnston:

quote Shane Drew:

Are Fiats that bad?

definition of a FIAT

Fix It Again Tomorrow :lol1:

Our local mechanic can’t say the word Fiat without another f-word in front of it…. 😮

[Angelique Muller]

Hey Gareth,
That’s a great look for supporting the dutch soccer team!!!

[Angelique Muller]

A few weeks ago I used a sheet of corriboard to make the roof and and a tray in the bottom of hen house.
I have used some di-bond to make a easy-to wipe-clean top on the table… kind of a big plate really, that the little chap can’t throw on the ground…..

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Congratulations! I will order a copy today!!!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Dave Rowland:

Did sericol suggest Nylobag ink (catalyst ink)

Yes they did. That was the one sticking the best (once fabric treated with solvents). But I found that when rubbing the fabric a bit it would come off.

[Angelique Muller]

I have had a good play with sail material and trying to stick vinyl on it or print on it. But as said before, it has been designed so that nothing adheres to is..
I got in touch with people at Sericol inks who did some samples for me.
The only way to get the ink to stick was by treating it with a solvent first (stripping the waterproof chemical). I did not feel comfortable with this so I have walked away from those kind of jobs. The sail maker I sometimes work for uses the product that Chris Wool suggested, but after sticking it he uses the sewing machine to keep it in place permanently. It goes trough the cutter no problem…..

Good luck with it, and if you find a succesful solution.. let me know 😀

[Angelique Muller]

Congratulations on your new house. I hope you will have many happy years in it!

[Angelique Muller]

Well, I cleaned it today with white spirits and it did the job perfectly!
Thanks for all the help!!! 😀

[Angelique Muller]

Hmm t-cut? Yep I can certainly try that! It was just so weird.. Trying to be ultra careful not to get marks on it and then this happens…….. I was thinking lighter fuel as it seems to work well for cleaning, but I am sure that would affect the glue on the vinyl. I will certainly give the t-cut a try (finally get to use it… if you saw the state of my car.. it is clear that I don’t use the stuff to often……..)

😛

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks Barry,
I will give them a ring and get some of your recommended products…

And Lynn: I will pm you a picture of the boy…
edit: can’t do that anymore… I will put one on new thread…

[Angelique Muller]

quote Lynn:

Angelique I can’t answer your question, but it is very nice to see you around again, hows the little one getting on ??

Lynn

Very good! Thanks for asking Lynn
He is 11 months now… how time flies…. he is a good little boy… very happy and smiley, but he makes working on signs quite hard at the moment. I only get to do a couple of hours in the evening when he is in bed. I had this naive notion that he would entertain himself during the day whilst I could get on with work… how wrong I was 🙄 But I am enjoying him a lot!
How are you!

[Angelique Muller]

Maybe another way would be to get a less sticky application tape?!?!
Does that exist?

[Angelique Muller]

I use artist acryllic. I have tried and tested many different types of paint and find that one the best: it is very thick for good coverage. I iron it afterwarths and it gives a really good finish. It stick really well.
I did try fabric paints aswell, but the solvents make the vinyll bubble: okay if you do only one coat, but no good for two…..
In terms of roller: I use a two inch foam roller.

[Angelique Muller]

quote Barbara Eden:

Hi Angelique
I also paint fabric occasionally 🙂 . How are you applying the paint, do you need a stencil material that sticks well (as in airbrushing)?
There’s a firm in the Uk called N C B who specialise in stencil materials, some are from the U.S.A. company Bren, they make a clear stencil, called P.Cut – I think.

I was discussing this just recently, if I can find the thread, i’ll put a link here.

Barbara

Thanks Barbara,

I need the stencil to stick reasonably well: I apply the paint with a stencilling brush and then go over it with a little roller (for an even finish).
I do two coats (it is usually white on a dark background) for good coverage.
It is not the end of the world if the vinyl lifts a little bit, but I could work faster if it didn’t…
I will look into that UK company that you mentioned

[Angelique Muller]

Thanks for that.
I will check it out.. 😀

[Angelique Muller]

Well, I am of to watch the local parade now!!!! 😀

[Angelique Muller]

quote graffica:

First job of the year. 30 Quad Bikes, 20 printed T-shirts and some window graphics.
No problems with T-shirts and window stuff.
The quad bikes had 4 pieces of vinyl with 4 lines of cut lettering on each one. Took ages to weed. When I came to apply them I realised I´d done them all in reverse.
As nobody on UK Signboards would ever make this kind of mistake, perhaps someone would care to second my nomination as PRAT of the YEAR 2009.

Feliz año.

Chris

Nop… I did that too. My first shop window.. I was so proud to get the lettering on nice and straight without any bubbles.. only to realise I had not cut it in reverse. It looked great inside the shop… not so great outside….

[Angelique Muller]

Merry Christmas everyone!!!
(no posting of christmas cards this year?!? I enjoyed them last year!)

[Angelique Muller]

Very cool!!

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quote Dave Rowland:

if you spend small amounts of money then you get what you are given.. however it is in recommended spec, but should be more.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window … ments.aspx

I understand what you mean. I only had a small budget at the time. Funny enough a month after I bought it, I got an old desktop for free from a place that was upgrading all their computers. It has XP but works perfectly. I would not have bought the laptop if I knew I was going to get that one. At the moment I like using the laptop whilst sitting by the fire. It is freezing here at the moment!!!!

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quote Dave Rowland:

512mb wont run vista correctly… it cant

my laptop doesn’t cause connection problems, vista is a much improvement over XP but only buy it on New equipment, not used.

That’s interesting… I bought mine brand new.. it has 512 mb. If it can’t run properly then why do they sell it with Vista on it?!?
Any suggestions on what to do? Should I downgrade so, or is there something else I can do…. 😮

[Angelique Muller]

Harry, I can’t help you with this problem. But good luck with Vista.
I have it on my laptop and it drives me nuts! Every time I switch it on it seems to search for updates and install them, which makes working on it frustratingly slow. It is also forever asking for permission for things….
I wish I had downgraded to XP when I bought it…………

[Angelique Muller]

Van Harte Gefeliciteerd!!!

(that’s happy birthday in dutch)

[Angelique Muller]

Happy birthday!!

[Angelique Muller]

quote Harry Cleary:

In fact Michelangelo preferred genuine oils to the cheaper chinese stuff Marco Polo used to sell . 😀

:rofl:

[Angelique Muller]

😀

[Angelique Muller]

I agree with Peter and David: You are the designer.
I have done it a couple of times that I would let the customer decide on a font…. it takes them ages to make up their mind and the process gets quite tedious…
So now most of the time I tend to -after an initial consult- show them a few options that I think are suitable (maybe 3). More often than not they are happy to pick one of them.
I did initially try to make a short-list with fonts, but it did not really work for me…………………….

[Angelique Muller]

Thank you all for opinions/advice……….makes me feel a bit better & that I made the right choices 😀

[Angelique Muller]

I saw someone using cable ties to fix them… did not look great… but I don’t think it would last…..

Looking at the pricing guide that I use as a reference for pricing signs on corriboard is a good bit cheaper. The material is cheaper but there is the same amount of time and labour involved as aluminium composite.
And since labour is the biggest part of the cost I would prever to use good materials that last… It is fine for signs that are only up for a couple of days/weeks… but would anyone use it for signs that are supposed to last longer?

I am only asking because I recently lost out on a job to someone who quoted a better price (using corriboard instead of alluminium composite)

I am trying to work out if I made the right decision in my choices in my proposal to the client….. so I know for next time 😮