[Gordon Forbes]

Like that Dewi I really do.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Allo John Got a new motor LOL

[Gordon Forbes]

For MX you need Convex Hi Bond 6mil and Laminate with Convex 8mil clear laminate panels need to be new or in as new condition.
They have a super thick laminate for front fenders and front Number etc but you have to order from USA.

I recently did an MX bike in Convex it lasted 3 races (10 min + 1 lapand the lad won all 3 races leading after about2 to 3 laps so it was under even less pressure) It Broke off lifted chipped and the conditions were not too bad not a lot of stones but it was very cold I was not impressed at all.

I have re-done the bike this time being maticulous in application and using a double layer of laminate to see if this helps

I sent an email to Convex (Graphic Marking Systems graphicms.com) and got no reply, phoned them and spoke to one of the guys there promised to email me some answers no reply as yet and that was 3-4 weeks ago.
You can buy it from Ireland but the shipping costs you an arm and a leg I was charged £80 for a roll of white comes in sprocketed and 15″ wide and a roll of clear laminate 12″ wide. the shipping cost almost added a third to my cost of the material which I feel was a total rip off.
You can get 600 mm wide and you can get black for number panels too but not available from anyone here as far as I know.

How much do you need ?

I am waiting for a 3m product that is just thay I have sourced for low energy plastic (actually its an alternative to my first choice as my first order turned out to have a minimum order of 2 rolls and at £500 a roll I said no (surprise surprise) so am waiting for the alternative to arrive.

I fact I haven’t finished with Convex yet and am going to pursue them as to why this stuff didn’t last 3 races (printing full colour with a PC600 is not cheap to do)

And as a final mention Danger UK don’t use Convex well they didn’t on the set of graphics that I saw anyway the base product was a 3m product that I know for sure and to me it was a glue laminate of some type that of which I am fairly certain as it was a lot more tacky than Convex ( I shall find out shortly) and it couldv’e been their laminate once I source some of this I will know.

Sorry for the long winded post if you want any Convex PM me I have some I could sell you.

ps or details where to get it.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Use application Tape on the decal position and press light to medium pressure with a temp of 150 to 180 for between 10 to 20 seconds.

HotPRINT White
Description: Transfer film for use with thermal printers such as the Gerber Edge and Roland Colour Camm.
Applications: T-Shirts and Sportswear.
Advantages:
• Soft very thin film.
• Durable prints.
• High washability 80°C.
• Supplied by the metre at 500mm and 380mm wide.
• Print & Cut.
Instructions: Print using the normal method.
Press at 150 – 180 °C for 10 to 20 seconds.
Recommendations: Small logos and letters are easier to transfer with application tape. Remove tape after cooling.
Apply application tape immediately after printing and
cutting to prevent edge lifting.
* Due to variation of fabric types always pre-test.
Please ensure that you remove the backing film when cold.

Taken from Victories web site under Specs for Hot Print.

Hope this fixes you up.
I found that some of the tapes actually marked the print when pressing but you can actually buy the proper tape from Victory to use for this.

Gordon.

[Gordon Forbes]

I thought panel prep was panel wipe!

[Gordon Forbes]

And on the back there could be advertising space for Ben Doonagain and Phil Mac Crackin

Tee Hee

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

I was told the other day (wont mention who by but no one here) that to get a gross profit of 40% you have to multiply by a factor of 1.8

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Get more panel prep

does a good job in my opinion and it’s what I use. You know its not going to react with things as this is what it’s made for.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Ask Rob who supplies cheapest inks LOL.

[Gordon Forbes]

There is a program called lightbox on the web that lets you view .ai and .eps cost about 30 buxs but I find it needs to be newer than .ai vers 6 I think to ge the thumbnail.

[Gordon Forbes]

Dunno.
Why?

Sometimes SO is a better answer anyway!!

[Gordon Forbes]

Used to work in a slaughter house for about 12 years.
Killed thousands of sheep used to kill between 70 to360 cattle a day + 200 to 1200 sheep depending on the time of year an we used to skin em by hand and the sheep with your fists and knuckles,
If we were meant to be vegitarians we would be cows or sheep in my opinion

Like a nice steak teaches you how to pick a good one. Meat nowadays doesn’t hang long enough before its eaten.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Aye Aye fit like min!!

[Gordon Forbes]

You notice this when you import other TT font into Signlab some need a lot of smoothing.

Signlab expensive on a par with Flexi I would say going by advertised prices

as said welding shadows etc etc a breeze in signlab

[Gordon Forbes]

Thanks for taking the time to reply

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Amazin what Google throws up sometimes lol.

[Gordon Forbes]

Is that a kosha copy U usin of Flexi then if not then maaayybbeee thats why it wont print.

skuzzzee me If I am wrong.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Push the Envelope Push the EnvelopePush the Envelope

Reminds me of a song by Leo Sayer.

I hope you don’t take offence but I hate Corparate Bu(($hit

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

First one I searched for

Hope this helps

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Attachments:

Aftershock Debris CondSolid.ttf

Aftershock Debris CondSolid.ttf

[Gordon Forbes]

If you don’t leave a space arpound the screws that you put through the board it will buckle with expansion. It needs to be held but also need to be able to contract and expand with heat etc etc. and it needs space to do this.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

ok don’t like my addy here neither but gordon24@btinternet.com is my old one an it gets all the spam LOL

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Well gimme an address then LOl probably all the same stuff anyway

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Sent you a pm

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Well dont keep it a secret tell us the tune then!!

[Gordon Forbes]

I can do it on Victory Hotmark with the PC600 have done a few photos this way.

Drop me a line.

Gordon

[Gordon Forbes]

seem to remember 10K as a ballpark figure my last one did 14K and it wasn’t the head that went but the ribbon exchanger.

[Gordon Forbes]

I find that printing as a .bmp gets rid of lines in some files in spots I can eliminate banding well have done recently in orange and black.

Seems to be worse on the process colours as it does four or three passes depending on settings but i never have wide to narrow looks like an alignment setting may be needing checked.

[Gordon Forbes]

Well done brilliant.
You using Sericol Inks terry ?.
I am planning to do airbrush vinyl in the near future. I hope I can compare.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Agree with Big G lettering as a guide covers about 75% of the area leave space around the edges.
There is a book you can buy that will tell you the best layout designs for best impact and pleasing to the eye for layout.
I cant remember what it is called Steve B takes it to bed with him every night and if you search for examples of his work you will see the standard of work that he produces
It is a very good read and explains a lot.

Hope this helps
Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Try the manufacturers web site you usually get all the info there.

[Gordon Forbes]

I was thinking the same thing but you pay import duty and VAT above purchase price. I may still do so after getting hammered £80 for two roll of vinyl from Ireland for shipping costs.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

You can do a cross grade which about halfs the recommended price.
If you want to print I think you may need the Thermal module (I don’t know if it is just for thermal printers or not) adds quite a bit but comparable to Flexi full bifta I would say same goes for Flexi you can cross grade to seen it on somw of the American sites no mention on any British ones though.

If you need the thermal module for spot printing etc I wouldn’t expect much change from £1700 but I might be wrong just going on what I paid for E6 and the cost of the thermal module.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Just work goin on I presume!!

[Gordon Forbes]

Out of interset to me Who are the suppliers and what type of deals do you get on these machines?

Feel free to PM

Gordon

[Gordon Forbes]

Dewi scoot along to Blackvipers web site and he tells you hows to switch off all the “thingies” that are a right royal pain in the £%$

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Welcome an invaluable source it is for suppliers and info.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

You buy a Tardis Fridge.

[Gordon Forbes]

Send me yor addy and I will send you a copy.

Dewi did you get sorted with a copy??

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

I had the same prob with 2 printers bought a manual box from Maplins £8 does the job brilliantly they also had auto switch ones and 4 connection ones as well if I remember correctly At that price worth a look anyway.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Thanks Becky been thinking about the Mimaki CS750 fv I think because it cuts most things and die cuts as well which is a feature I would like seems to have two plattens one rubber for cutting right through.
There doesn’t seem to be many suppliers though.

[Gordon Forbes]

ROFFs posted it today should get it Mon Tues

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

I might be wrong but seems like you might have a Gerber Edge.

What are in real terms the running costs of a Gerger Edge.

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Dare I say it try E bay plenty there just search for vinyl cutter.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Go to the Roland website an register go to the forums and Jday has images in his gallery for PC60 settings in RCC which are very good also some info on how to get rid of the banding I have manged to get rid of it on spot colours but not quite on CMYK just need more fiddling. (I hope)

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

I bought Lightbox manager previews lots a files don’t cost a lot but struggles if it tries to preview over a hundered or so in a folder with a large amount otherwise its oK.

[Gordon Forbes]

I don’t know for sure but did you download any updates Service pack 2 for XP can give this problem with a DNS error couldn’t find server on some systems and the fix for that was to uninstall it and select repair instead of uninstall. So I have been told.

Don’t know if it affects 2000 though.

[Gordon Forbes]

Gimme your addy and I’ll mail a pdf to ya

[Gordon Forbes]

3 shot still leagal pistols u on about lol

[Gordon Forbes]

Did you know that it is illegal to shot a hedgehog with a semi automatic shotgun!!!

[Gordon Forbes]

I can e-mail you settings to try I got from rolands website which icc to use cmyk setting etc etc ony of the guys there found that this gave the best results for printing for them

[Gordon Forbes]

Yeah thats what I’m looking for and where I saw it.

[Gordon Forbes]

Wot U bin Up to then??? LOL

[Gordon Forbes]

Have you broadband I’ll zip and send it to you .rar if you have winrar or spose could make it self extracting.

Sayin that just had a look and its 348 mb a beeet too beeg

PM me your addies and I’ll copy and send if you like.Ver 4.1

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

Gawd Dewi are you makin all these posts on a 56K connection No wonder you struggle for time LOL

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Thanks Outline I got the reg key off my laptop for the E6 version.

[Gordon Forbes]

I have a gig of ram and can work photoshop, illustrator and a few instances of signlab no problem.

XP P4 3.4 HT PCI-Express card and 1Gb DDR mem.

[Gordon Forbes]

You don’t need the reg key its encrypted on the disk already to reinstall just load the disk and it installs.

[Gordon Forbes]

Update on the Spot colour saga.

Had a Cadlink rep phone me asked a few questions ie if i had been able to do print spot colours before as he said Ver 7 is primarily for the Edge (better not be or I want my money back) anyway told hime it worked in E6.

Said he would call back he didn’t.
I have a laptop and fired it up to see E6 sitting there and hooked it up to print Printed spots no problem black and silver with the orange ribbon no probs

Imported that .pal file into Ver 7 and it didn’t work.

Did a reinstall of Ver 7 and will try again today sometime to see if I get the spot colour message when I go to print and to see if Cadlink call back.

I ain’t gonna hold my breath.

Peter if you read this what machine are you using?.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Peter are you running Signlab 7

Not hijacking your post honest

[Gordon Forbes]

I go Mcaffe norton puts so much sheeeet on you computer its a wonder it does anything after you install it all, sayin that so does McAffe with all that privacy and internet security gumpf. I uninstalled half of it and my connection is back to what it was now.

Scare mongerin is good business especially bout hackers etc etc they do exist for sure but everybodies next door neigbour isn’t one same goes for the pedos you would think ther were millions of em the way they go on.

Get yourself an ADSL router with a built in firewall. Leave it on all the time internet is always on wireless if you want it 4 port hub and nobody can see you behind it no matter how much they snoop.

[Gordon Forbes]

OOps didn’t read right and sent info about CONVEX Dooohhhh!!!

[Gordon Forbes]

Apparently it works if you turn off all the printing (to do with the pc600) and you can use it to cut. Gimme a buzz if you need help or if no one else helps.

[Gordon Forbes]

I know from the PC600 (using colour choice) there is a file you can import to Illustrator that gives you a contour cut line in the swatch that it adds to your palettes. but I’m sure you can do it without this all to do with line type size and colour.
I’ll have a hunt around an see if I can find anything.

[Gordon Forbes]

I would re install it but I can’t find me reg key Doh!!!!!

[Gordon Forbes]

What I can’t understand is why I get the message about spot colours the first couple of times I printed the file (still didn’t print them) but now I get no message.

I load the Roland PC600 palette and choose the spot colour from there the code is correct for the colour the only thing it says is it’s a spot foil so I changed this to spot colour and it makes no difference.

I noticed that I was opening a pallete instead of loading it (made no difference anyway.)

When I view the installed palettes Roland is not there even though I select it load it

Even tried mapping colours and it still don’t work.

I am using CMYK should it be RGB???

[Gordon Forbes]

Well everyone slaggin PC World they ain’t all that bad their OEM stuff in the brown boxes is competitivley priced just make sure you kow what you are buyig first get the specs I see a lot of advertisements for computers for £500 £600 qiud take a look inside em and u soon see why they are that price shared graphics minimum ram etc etc It will cost you a grand for a decent system.

Laptops may be good but they are always a compromise compared to a desktop they have to be o other option if you eed to hump it around get oe otherwise desktop every time.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

It says that in the help file that you get a message like this and I did twice and it seemed to want to print them as a seperate page so I clicked no and now I don’t get the message which I think I am supposed to do.

On the same point the code on the cartridge was black so I stuck on a silver one and made the colour silver but still don’t get the message or printing a spot
So am sittig back from it for a while and might even try thru Illustrator and RCC though that would be another “learning” experience as I haven’t done it that way before.

I will try both options an see how I get on.

thanks

[Gordon Forbes]

Can you be more specific please. It always prints across the vinyl

eg System set up printer drivers, software etc etc the more info you give the more specific the help can be but what you are telling us is like you have a blue car an it goes forward.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Doors
Stevie Ray Vaughan (Guitar meastro Xtrordinare man u gotta listen to him)
Purple (Deep) Child in Time an Dazed an Confused
Lizzy (Thin) Gimme Whisky
Queen no one will ever match or beat the Bohemian Rap
AC DC (The band I will keep sex out of it)
Hendrix well who doesn’t like him if they like guitar moozac
Nazareth
Jeff Healey
Aerosmith
Creedence Clearwater Revival

and lots of others in the same ilk

funnily enough I make my own CD’s and was talkin about this the other day at a Hogmany party Start makin a CD with some of the newer singles I like and they always end up with some of the above on them at some point

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Try classic view from the start menu Press start right click select properties the pop up and select classic same as win 98

Hope this helps as I’m not sure what you mean

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Try perfect tear app tape keeps nice an flat should help if I read your post right and aren’t using application tape.

If I’m wrong ignore me LOL

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

They have a minimum order and it aint low as I found out.

[Gordon Forbes]

Surprised Rodney hasn’t replied to this he seems to be very knowledgable when it comes to rips etc.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Nooo probs pour moi!!

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

‘ll just like a secondhand Lotus Carlton a new 2005 R1 and GSXR 1000 2005 as well if u can manage

LOL Goop

might be buying a 2004 R1 though

[Gordon Forbes]

Big G weimaraners ain’t nothin like graet danes Doberman more like call em ghost dogs to grey ones an pink ones lovely lookin dogs they are.

An if your not sure if its a hair or not tweak it out put it on your head cause from a distance you can’t tell the difference between a rabbit or a hair

goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Hotmark from Victory is good as thin as you get

[Gordon Forbes]

9800 is what Roland state to use for the PC600

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

You can get a programme off the internet that allows outlook to download stuff that was before SP2 but worth a try its a bit too stangled now I fink.

[Gordon Forbes]

At least you aint got the DNS cant find server error even after a format downloaded SP 2 and it did exactly the same again on the brother in laws computer. Think I’ve got a fix for it though will find out later tonight.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

I’ll shut up then !!

[Gordon Forbes]

Is the banding between passes or in a pass If between it would be to do with the thickness of the material if in a pass seems like head damage

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Well Well watch you don’t fall on all the dummies lyin on the floor.

The car and wot I think Colours do look a little dull but I don’t know if its the photo or not.

What were most peoples rection to it when they saw it

My reaction to the posts
Agree wi Steve not wi Shane an Jill to certain point just cause u been doin it for 20 odd years blah blah blah gets a bit borin hearing all that

Just as its an opinoin is a right everyone has so is startin a sign business if they so desire

I do it part time I have no other chioce if I started up as a full time company I would’ve fallen flat on my face a long time ago.

Does this make me a Cowboy in some peoples eyes it seems so
In my eyes me NO

Do i care about your opinion well maybe (if its said to my face) NO because they are like ar%*”oles everybodies got one.

Storm in a tea cup mountain out of a molehill come to mind.
well whatever

regards Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

You try working offshore Risk assesments to do with everything
Health an Safety Executive enforce regulations regarding PUWER and LOLER.
Provision and use of working equipment and Lifting operations and lifting equipment These are in fact statutory law as is task risk assesments concerning a lot of other things.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Just get a blade for cutting aluminium

[Gordon Forbes]

Find nothing wrong with Hot print its the thinnest of them all as far as I am aware and it tells you it will curl back on you but I find that its the weed part that curls back anyway
I use a PC600 though and I think this stuff is foor thermal anyway but I ain’t 100% sure of this.
Find it does a great job.

[Gordon Forbes]

same as the rest welcome and don’t be afraid to ask any questions you would be surprised at the responses you get here sometimes.

Don’t be afraid to make your own contributions either.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Would recommend the PC600 as I have one and peeps are amazed at the quality of labels it produces thermal as well don’t need to laminate really
Bit more money tho

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Should be a law against the way these big companies s*%ew suppliers

Try going to the check out an say you will pay in three months and see how far you get.

[Gordon Forbes]

I know where you get stuff for this designed for the moto xross market but its not the thick gell type got printable clear and laminate and waiting for white printable to arrive as we speak Called Convex

Give us a shout if you want more info and by god it is sticky stuff.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Nice one again Steve

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

If you have Summa control on your computer just turn AUTOLOAD OFF and when you load a sheet it does the width of the sheet between the rollers and then stops .
BEFORE you send any cut job to the plotter make sure you spool enough through the plotter manually and then back again and press enter.(if using a roll) as it wont pull the media off the roll in this mode.

It shouldn’t be a problem just using a sheet and once cut it stops at the end of the file you just cut
I’m sure you can do this through the menu buttons you will have to read the manual an see.

Hope you understand this. This is the way i do it all the time as I was fed up with it spooling vinyl through it all the time.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Ferecla or Frecala is the compound you want it ain’t the cheapest but what a job it makes would never use T Cut used it in the past and its a pain Ferecla you use with water and leves NO residue like T Cut an its magic designed for acrylic paint its good its good no jokin though it is

Hope this helps

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Think if you are a signmaker aren’t they DONGLEBERRIES.!!!!!! (hot)

[Gordon Forbes]

Yep a crackin sign.

PS Do the demo Do the Demo

Goop.

[Gordon Forbes]

I just sld a bike on Ebay got the 2 highest bidders with -5 feedback apparently they bid on 70 bikes in 1/2 an hour and screwed a lot of deals up. I was lucky the third was a genuine buyer and he accepted.

On another note I bid on a quad lochnessy was his handle so presumed it was in Scotland. Even though at the time I knew it was too cheap and didn’t think I would win with the bid I did.

Turns out he was fron Slovenia and was going to deposit 9000 eoruos in my account from a friend in the UK who owed him money. I had to send him the difference so he could pay for the shipping and in the mean time after you send the money they take the original amount back from your account apparently.

Wonder if they could do that if the account was empty play them at their own game would love to try it if possible.

Another was to send him money in a different name he checks the money is deposited and sends you the goods an you change the name to his account to withdraw it. Think its gonna sit there long enough to be able to do that. NOT

Apparently to be safe don’t touch anything with moneygram OR Western Union you have no comeback against fraud.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Fraid not Rob its a home made jobbie and he wants an addition below
The sign ends where your spanner is made from angle iron galvanised locally bin up for 7 years and not a spot of rust on it so I don’t want to drill any of it

Its like the corporate signs (on the inside of the 2 poles but welded to the poles)

The additional sign is going below and in between the poles same as the original (web address)

[Gordon Forbes]

U gotta download the correct firmware after changing it

[Gordon Forbes]

Looks like you missed the tip about KEEPING YOUR PICTURES TO 600 PIXELS to keep them on the screen.

apart from that well done bit daunting doing it for the first time especially when some one is hoverin in the background.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

I have been told the early in the morning in November here in Scotland just after first light if you
Turn with your back facing England
bend over as far as you can while still on your feet and put your head between your legs as far as you can and look up to the sky as hard as you can you can actually see URANUS!!

Never tried it mind.