[Garrie]

If it was Arnold Clark it wouldn’t surprise me 🙄 Had very bad experiences with them 🙁

My oil filter is an element too, however I can’t remember if you need to drop the oil before removing it, Mine sits right at the top of the engine so I guess I could remove it without dropping the oil.

[Garrie]

wow, thanks all for the positive replies.

Unfortunately that is the Customers logo and couldn’t be changed to much, I would have like the tail more into the S but such is life.

I choose the colours, (the orginal logo is slighty different colour wise) hence my embarrassing Vinyl thread, however the yellow and burgundy I have in stock goes together very well imho.

I was a bit unsure about using reflective but it works, and will no doubt look great at night.

Thanks again and I’ll see you all at signUK 😀

[Garrie]

Jayne, thats mint, thats what I’m talking about..

Soo much fun to had with snow about 😀

[Garrie]

I personally think your sound.

You don’t appear to suffer fools gladly and take no non sense however still able to have a laugh 😀

[Garrie]

really like that look 😀

[Garrie]

errr I think mine was Bros or sommat 😳

[Garrie]

I wouldn’t touch Norton with a barge poll, however that is just my opinion.

I have a small wireless LAN, the wireless router (old BT voyager 2000) has a built in hardware firewall, I use wireless for the laptop and wired connections for both PCs.

The PCs run no firewall other than XP service pack 2 firewall, all PCs including the laptop run AVG, never had an issue at all, in fact I’ve never had a virus ever. I don’t use IE, only Firefox for browsing.

All the PCs don’t suffer any slowdown running AVG.

Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

quote Shane Drew:

Yes, sorry to hijack the thread mate 😳

No worries Bud, I don’t mind 😀

[Garrie]

Victory have a Banner punch in their Jan07 cat. its £179.95

[Garrie]

quote Nigel Pugh – Grafityp:

Garrie what life vinyl and what width are you after ?

Hi Nigel,

I have a 1230mm cutter however would prefer 610mm widths 😀 Anything from 5 year to above would be great 🙂

Sorry to have opened this can o worms.

Cheers again
Garrie

[Garrie]

wow, I’m totally overwhelmed, thanks for all the offers of help, it is truly appreciated 😀 Owe yous all a beer, thanks 😀 Hope to see you all at Sign UK, I’m the fat ugly one with long blond hair, 😉

I’m sorted for the brown now, customer likes Burgundy colour I had in stock better. Gonna see if they like cyclamen instead heehee

Nigel Pugh – Grafityp – Any chance I can find out what offcuts you have and buy a load, may save me in the future?

Cheers again <beer>
Garrie

[Garrie]

quote Richard Urquhart:

Most vinyl suppliers supply in 5meter amounts, your better off if you know another sign maker near you and see if they have a meter of each colour

rich

I’d feel cheeky asking another sign maker, is that acceptable to do (?)

Thanks for the replies 😀

[Garrie]

quote Chris Wool:

quote :

Im having an issue with my PCut.

so is every body else .

that sort of problem is normally associated with a communication problem

Chris

No me, our P-CUT cuts aswell as our old Roland 😀

Anyways, I’ve never used the CP on the cutter to copy jobs, normally just use the Sign software, never had an issue cutting 1000’s of window stickers/decals.

Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

Amari do some pop up displays now too 😀

[Garrie]

Hey Mike.

These G’Days, are freaking me as my last name is Day, lol

Have fun
Garrie

[Garrie]

one of mines 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeY9IRnVmk8

[Garrie]

waiting for my bronze membership to finish first 😀

[Garrie]

no need to shout 😉

found these http://www.beacongraphics.com/vinylrack.html

Wonder if you can get something similar in the uk?

[Garrie]

thats mint 😀 Great idea

[Garrie]

no fair, can’t see the link 🙁

[Garrie]

Short wiper blades are a big NO NO,

check this link..
http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_830.htm

[Garrie]

LOL – I can’t stand that women 👿 👿 she really boils my piss 😮

[Garrie]

I’ve bought plotter pens from Dorotape before 🙂

[Garrie]

Thanks for that, will check them out 😀

[Garrie]

Don’t understand, Just trying to be friendly.. I’m from Planet Scotland..

Just trying for a laugh 😳

All the best anyways

Sorry I caused offence
Garrie (-)

[Garrie]

nice eyes 🙂

[Garrie]

Hey Nic.

All the best 😀

Your only as old as the bloke you feel, well thats what I’ve heard.

I prefer the older woman myself 😛

[Garrie]

Hi,

Sounds they have exactly what I’m looking for.

Cheers <beer>

[Garrie]

I normally steel my Blades from the local A & E :lol1:

[Garrie]

I’m sure I had a few others, must be on my other PC, will scout them out tomorrows

---

Attachments:

JBL_logo.ai

[Garrie]

Nice link bud, thanks :2thumbs:

[Garrie]

some graphics

---

Attachments:

kn.eps

hks.eps

apc.eps

[Garrie]

Silver Skyline
Canny hard to get pics of the bonnet though, sorry

Enjoy the film, LOL its very very bad, thats 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back

😥

[Garrie]

Hi Nicola,

I’m sure I have logo disc kicking around somewhere with stuff like this on it.

Will upload them later on, just nipping out for a few hours, will deffo post them tonight though 🙂

Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

Cheers for that Marcella, its much appreciated.

Still waiting for my Europoint price list, will get back onto them 🙂

Will deffo try Scotmark, as the little Metamark Vinyl I used feels nicer to me than MACTAC, easier to weed 😀

Thanks again
Garrie

[Garrie]

LOL, I’ve got my fingers crossed for you :lol1:

[Garrie]

Marcella – I can help you out if your in a pickle, email or PM me if you like.

[Garrie]

if your really stuck and don’t get it sorted today, I can pop down tonight with my laptop which is running flexi, we could try it from my lappy and see if it works 🙂

[Garrie]

hey did someone say party… 😛 😛 😛

[Garrie]

what, no way, hes mint my mate Willow, I geordie like me, even wears the colours 😉 😛

I was shocked when I took that picture, couldn’t believe it, pure fluke I caught him cleaning himself 😀

[Garrie]

my scrunge bags..

Love them loads, wouldn’t be without them

The Pic below of my cat willow is NOT photoshopped

---

Attachments:

[Garrie]

Robert Horne group app tape for me, again in 1220mm logs 😀

For Customers to self apply/RTA graphics I use Conform tape, saves any hassle 😀

[Garrie]

quote GERT DU PREEZ:

Designers are A-holes!! Yep. I Agree!! I never know what to call myself: Designer, Lay-out artist, Desk Top Publishing Guru, Signwriter… I do all of the above.And more. Must be a Signwriter, then!! The moment a Certificated, “Qualified” graphic designer / artist walks into our office, I want to , oops, censored, the , uhm., censored, censored out of the , censored, censored whatshisname. Is true!

They all use AppleMac computers, while EVERYONE doing the work, flies PC. Why that? ….. Must be cost, I hear them say.. ban them from all future civilised conversation! A prime example of wasted public spending on higher education.

My apologies to the few examples of the above breed who are actually dedicated, HUMBLE, professionals.

now now, calm your passions 🙂

In my experience speaking from the perspective of a graphic designer, all directors are AR5EH0LES at least all of the ones I’ve worked for have been. It’s a bit prejudiced to judge everyone the same but hey if you’s are throwing about I’ll join in, director bashing!!! and also I use pc 😀

Susan (& Garrie)

[Garrie]

quote GERT DU PREEZ:

If vinyl dampened the sound, Reflective will make the drum go ” (oh i swore !)- (oh i swore !)” in stead of “BOOM-BOOM” Just check the weight diff between the two! Your mate’s neighbours will knight you, though!

Remember this is a RESO head, not the BATTER head 🙄

[Garrie]

thats weird, I could see the picture before, now its gone to a PH logo, weird.

Oh well, sorry peoples. Thought it would be interesting, never seen a Lamborghini with reflective vinyl before 😀

[Garrie]

How many cop cars do you see that are Lamborghini Murcielago’s?

The Vehicle, real cop car or photoshopped?

[Garrie]

Peter – Thanks for the reply.

Yeah vinyl was applied to outside of head. The head is 22" and made from Mylar.

The Vinyl has a slight dampening effect, however this is a good thing for the reso head, no need for internal dampening via a small peice of felt.

Cheers

[Garrie]

I read the title wrong (oogle) 😕 :lol1:

[Garrie]

I also pick my Vinyl up from Amari, however they still charge me £8.00 delivery as the vinyl comes from down south somwhere, only thing I can get from Amari same day without delivery is Foam board etc..

Hey Marcella i’ll maybe bump into you some time 🙂

[Garrie]

I use Amari Glasgow, superb, can’t praise them enough. 🙂

Europoint weren’t even bothered to send me a price list 🙄

p.s I used to work at William Smiths when I lived in Barney, a good few years ago now though 😥

[Garrie]

Gotta be Carrie :yes1:

[Garrie]

Hey,

outa 61 people so far I guess I’m the only one who has a nightmere setting up a brand new blade (<(

[Garrie]

Hi John,

Thanks for the advice, I know how to setup the blade, I just hate doing it, I never get it spot on first time.

Interestly I’ve always had the blade set just to mark the backing paper slightly.

Russell, though blades do sound a good idea 😀

[Garrie]

Hi,

I adjusted it in the software bud 😀

Hope this helps

[Garrie]

Beta Banner…… Are the Boys, Martin is sound btw 😀

[Garrie]

quote Jim McManus:

and another

quailty :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Garrie]

glad you sorted it Bud 😀

[Garrie]

Hi Phill,

Is word really that clever? I suspect it isn’t, but you never know.

Just a thought, is it not auto creating a thumbnail?

Maybe download a trial version of DreamWeaver and see how you get on.

Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

If you really really stuck..

If you wanna send me the the image files and word docs and i’ll recreate the pages using Dreamweaver and send the HTM files and folders/images files back all ready for you just to upload them!

Why are you using Word anyways, its not web design software, its even worse than Frontpage, at the end of the day, your website is your online persona, why compromise it by using a product not really designed to build a webpage, let alone a full site.

Cheers
Garrie

[Garrie]

Funky, forgot about that forum.

Will call them tomorrow, Cheers Bud 😀

[Garrie]

Fantastic, cheers Bud 😀

[Garrie]

Hi there

We have an outline of a 205 multi van, but it looks like the car/van that transports wheelchairs, with the higher bit at the back.
We’ve also got a 205 car, I don’t know if that could be modified in to a van?

---

Attachments:

peug001.eps

[Garrie]

quote George Elsmore:

one of my vans had a parking ticket recently off the council…….guess what we were putting new parking signs on the very car park for the council!!! 😮 i asked for it to be recinded or i would add the price of the ticket to the invoice :lol1:

they backed down

Quality :lol1: nice one

[Garrie]

Happy Birthday bud :2thumbs: *drink*

[Garrie]

quote Marcella:

Well, I got one of those little twin jack plugs thingyummyjigs today, so now I can hear you all in stereo! 😀

Garrie, yes every other set of speakers I’ve had were like that. But these were bought separately and are designed to be used singley, but I’m just awkward and wanted two! 😀 One is a speaker only the VASE the other is a cubite box, speaker and USB hub.

😳 sorry, teaches me for just skim reading 🙄

[Garrie]

mint 😀 cheers

[Garrie]

sorry to sound like a pariot but this is deffo a genuine Windows warning like others have advised.

There is a cheeky patch for it, just use google 😉

[Garrie]

Hello,

Thats right weird, normally 1 of the jack plugs from the speakers will plug into the other speaker and the remaining jack plug, plugs into the sound card.

does that make sense, lol

Hope you sort it 😀

[Garrie]

we use 9800 and its great, also 8300 is good but I’ve found Metamark 4 series nicer to use 😀

[Garrie]

:lol1: liking the Evil Moomin

[Garrie]

can’t really recomend a PC, however make sure you get a decent dual head graphics card with a good amount of RAM.

[Garrie]

Michael, yeah it was hand drawn using the pen tool, drawn as a line (stroked path) and then the lines converted to outlines. Once converted to outlines shapes all welded together. Compounded paths were then released to give the centre shapes fill colours.
I find using a stroked path gives an even line thickness all the way around when you have a fill colour and an outline colour.

Hope this helps.

Susan (& Garrie)

[Garrie]

They’re funky, what are you going to do with them?

Here’s my version of the scary wee "groomin"

---

Attachments:

Moonin.ai

[Garrie]

Hiya

Is this the one?

Cheers
Sus & G

---

Attachments:

suzuk004.eps

[Garrie]

Hiya

The other moomin posted lines were a bit wobbly, here’s my effort, hope it helps, it’s a colourful one 😀

---

Attachments:

Moonin.ai

[Garrie]

my font is exactly the same with the C’s..

I’m pulling my hair out now too :lol1:

[Garrie]

its the C’s that are getting me, grrrr

[Garrie]

looks similiar to font I’ve attached, does require some tweeking though..

Also Goudy hand tooled is similiar but not exact

http://www.fontscape.com/explore?7RK

Hope it helps

---

Attachments:

IMPRISHA.TTF

[Garrie]

really really nice work, love the gold leaf.

Wish I was that skilled with the paint.

[Garrie]

there is a couple o cuties :nag2:

[Garrie]

a lot of stuff I do, you need to have the orginal stuff to be able to recreate and sell..

I’ve got about 4 items on ebay and its been 6 weeks(selling like hot cakes) and no one (in the UK) has copied it, yet, it will happen though 🙁

I think a lot of people of EBAY nick the stuff from work and sell it to make a quick profit (:)

[Garrie]

I sell on ebay alot and touch wood have any had any problems.

Thing is what I sell on ebay is not what we do as company (although its still accounted for in the books)

I personally think ebay is going downhill, but if your careful its still an okay place to trade. You also gotta remember most people are thick and you have to spells things out to them, most poeple don’t read and if they do its like selective reading 🙄

just my 2ps worth 😛

[Garrie]

nay bother, glad it worked 😀

[Garrie]

I really like a Avery 2in1 (dark blue)

[Garrie]

quote Dave Rowland:

Hang on mo, I thought Suitcase Fusion is mac as the Auto activation features appears to be mac only.. i think.

I am actually doing something like this at the moment, I am sorting the fonts out and this is how I am doing it…

1: I have setup a corel routine to open every corel file and list out the fonts used, this was an overnight run.
2: I had a list of fonts which I have used, I then took the most common fonts and put them together, then took another set for the rest, then another set for odds and so forth. I am using standard Suitcase to activate these.
3: Corel X3 is a must, it finally shows the fonts in their actual font in the chooser like Illustrator has a for a long time.

I use illustrator and flexi, never knew Corel didn’t offer this feature untill x3

[Garrie]

with the new blade maybe being 60 degree would you not have to change the offset?

[Garrie]

cheers all 😀

Will be looking into some software that allows temp installation of the font, really really clever idea that.

Thanks
Garrie

[Garrie]

could you not try running in compatibility mode set to 98?

[Garrie]

pure quality :lol1: :lol1:

[Garrie]

Hiya

If you offset the path of the circle you want the text to follow, make it a bit bigger than the original.
Go to the text icon, keep it pressed down and the text toolbar flyout wil appear, the 3rd icon in with the T sitting at a 45 degreee angle will appear (type on a path tool) then click on the larger circle and type.
If it’s sitting at the wrong point on the circle use the paragraph palette to justify it (left, centre or right). If the text isn’t sitting far enough away from the original circle you can use the "set the baseline shift" in the character palette to be higher.

Hope this helps, if it doesn’t make sense if you send me the file and tell me the font i’ll sort it for you.

Cheers
Susan (& Garrie)

[Garrie]

aye, there is a piece of software for macs that allows you to cut directly from Illustrator, can’t mind the name of it though.

[Garrie]

edit – just reread, sorry, me being a numpty 😮

[Garrie]

I’m sure Grafityp supply them

http://www.grafityp.co.uk/

[Garrie]

unsure why you would want to use another type of blade unless you can’t get a different degree blade (so for flock, reflective etc) for the PCUT.

[Garrie]

lot of agression in this thread 😮

Shane glad you’ve kinda got it sorted, fingers crossed the cheque clears.

Revenge is a dish best served cold :lol1: I’ve got a memory like an elephant 😛

[Garrie]

sign along? 1 2 3 4

Its nine oclock on a saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
Theres an old man sitting next to me
Makin love to his tonic and gin

He says, son, can you play me a memory?
Im not really sure how it goes
But its sad and its sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger mans clothes

La la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

Sing us a song, youre the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, were all in the mood for a melody
And youve got us feelin alright

Now john at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And hes quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But theres someplace that hed rather be
He says, bill, I believe this is killing me.
As the smile ran away from his face
Well Im sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

Now paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And hes talkin with davy whos still in the navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, theyre sharing a drink they call loneliness
But its better than drinkin alone

Sing us a song, youre the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, were all in the mood for a melody
And youve got us feelin alright

Its a pretty good crowd for a saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
cause he knows that its me theyve been comin to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, man, what are you doin here?

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da

[Garrie]

adios, sleep well 😀

[Garrie]

newcastle born and bread..

We are the geordies 😀 toon toon black and white army 😀

Susan’s dad is Gers so I kinda have to be, makes life easy, well next season anyways 😛 😀

[Garrie]

quote Micheal Donnellan:

on the topic of drinks any one have a nuke shot or what ever else the loonies in your particular location call it.

wtf (?) 😮

[Garrie]

quote Nicola McIntosh:

quote Garrie:

Gers (?)

no i support celtic 😉

nik

I’m a Black and White 😀

TOON TOON