[John Gregson]

I’d hazzard a guess that they have been screen printed.

[John Gregson]

I deregistered but was nowhere near the threshold. If you are over you have to be registered, if under, its up to you.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Hi Hugh,
If using a ricoh printer you would use the Powerdriver software – no need for icc profiles, unless you’re using a mac.

Full instructions should have came with printer or are available on sawgrass website.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Hi all,
There are 2 exceptions to the small/medium parcels – (fine print right at the bottom of the new flyers/price lists).

If the parcel is under 16cm x 16cm x 16cm its classed as a small parcel, not medium and the weight is up to 1KG.

So, if sending printed mugs out, using the right box, you can send two out for £3.00, 1st class or £2.60, 2nd class. Which is actually a saving if sending 2 mugs together.

The other exception is a roll.cylinder under 45cm long x 8cm diam. – this too is classed as small parcel.

Hope this helps

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Dont think nominet will be much help – think they only deal with .co.uk domains.

I too get these all the time – scam

[John Gregson]

There’s a guy on ebay sells it – do a search for carbon fibre vinyl

[John Gregson]

I belong to another forum and a few members have been affected by problems with Ricoh Printers when using sawgrass sublijet-r inks. Sawgrass have made them very good offers and replaced their gear, for a small fee. Not sure whether the 7000 is included but your problem isn’t with xpres, because as soon as you put the sawgrass inks in, the ricoh or xpres warranty is void.

Got to contact them direct though – not through xpres or Ricoh. I’d post a link of the most recent thread about ricoh printers but not sure if i can post links to another forum!

[John Gregson]

As Tom has said – the Ricoh’s are supported by a Sawgrass warranty if you bought the kit and ink off a one of sawgrass’s distributors.

Get in touch with Sawgrass, they should sort this out.

[John Gregson]

Think Colenso sell a film similar to Ruby.
http://www.colenso.co.uk/

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Greggs regular Latte and a bacon and sausage bun 😀

[John Gregson]

I had a similar message to yours Cheryl when the print spooler stopped working. It was something like 2 corrupted print files that had failed to print – cleared these and the spooler started again, and the messages ceased to flash up.

May or may not be connected to your problem

[John Gregson]

If they are polyester, and light colours, you could try dye sublimation.

[John Gregson]

Did you get a compressor with this ?

I know on my pad printer, just before the compressor boots in, the machine will slow down considerably and run quite slow until the compressor boots in and gets back up to pressure.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

I’ve got a pad printer for sale at the moment, you could do them yourself. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Says they are designed to withstand the higher European speeds – whatever they are!

http://www.bisbellmagnets.com/section.p … 79&xPage=1

If that’s on their safety sheet, then just copy it and supply it to your client.

[John Gregson]

It seems to be the "L / M / Y" that’s affected, the rest weld up OK.

If there’s not much text just shorten the flick or tail by deleting some nodes on these letters.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

If it was a screen print then white spirits will take it off – if its sublimation I think you may be stuck so use John’s idea of the teflon sheet taped to the press.

I did some hi viz without using a sheet and stained the press yellow. 😕

[John Gregson]

What is the name of the font ?

[John Gregson]

Don’t even have to convert to paths:
Select the text, arrange, shape, weld. simples 😀

[John Gregson]

weld it!

[John Gregson]

The problem there though is you have spend time and effort doing a visual and now don’t have a customer to pay for it.

Would it not have been better telling him the price before hand – then you wouldn’t have wasted your time?

[John Gregson]

Is coreldraw 7 compatible with win 7 ?

[John Gregson]

Macal 9800 series
Strawberry Red is quite close, but a little darker.
Code: (9859-26 pro)

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Don’t like that dog at all – doesn’t suit the sign.

[John Gregson]

quote :

used to make your phone dial a high rate number

They can be made to direct you to anything really, normally websites etc.

[John Gregson]

wow – he just made it, fantastic. 😀

[John Gregson]

Instead of grouping them, can you not weld them all together – would that help?

[John Gregson]

Hi Michael,
I looked into this a while ago and tried to use the TTC 3.1 laser transfer papers through a Minolta 2300DL, which they said would be OK, but I had poor results. I then got some samples printed on a friends oki and they looked good on the t’shirt when pressed. I haven’t sold any of these as workwear though, but for hen/stag do’s, they’re perfect.

I haven’t used any other TMT papers so cannot vouch for them – and as said before – its the same printer, but with driver or firmware setting changed, and a badge added.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

The only difference between the oki and TMT is the fuser/heat setting have been tinkered with and you’ll have a drop down list on the print function with all the different papers available. + the badge of course

Never had any problems buying TMT papers and I don’t have an OKI

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

I don’t think Santander do a free (lifetime) business account anymore – maybe free for 1 year but after that the cheapest is £7.50 per month. I think the free one was when they took over Alliance & Leicester and honoured their free system to current customers.

I’m with Natwest but am looking around at the moment.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

sea dog 2001 italic – close and free

[John Gregson]

Hi Steve,
I under cook mine too – my settings are around 150 @ 150 with BMS mugs, coralgraph or xpres tape, and xpres paper. Come out a treat.

edit: timings do depend on where you get your mugs from, mugs from other suppliers and I might have to revert back to the 3 minutes.

I’ll try your 2 mins and see what the out come is!

[John Gregson]

I’m quite surprised that the heads blocks – i’ve got the A4 5050n and can leave it ages without problem.

I’d keep at it, aslong as your using good paper, and mugs, there’s nothing to learn, especially with a Ricoh – press print, stick it to mug, give it 3 mins, and bobs ya uncle.

[John Gregson]

Why’s it sat unused Lorraine?

[John Gregson]

Hi Jason,
I don’t know much about your type of printing but i’ve imported a plotter from this company in the past and it went pretty smoothly.

http://www.eastsign.com/table_slitter.html

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

There is an American company making this:
http://www.dyepress.com/servlet/the-Pol … Categories

They also sell it on fleabay but it still has to come from over the pond. I’ve never used this so don’t know how effective it is but it may be worth a go.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

surprised myself – got 90

[John Gregson]

I’d want a purchase order and maybe a deposit before travelling 350 miles, I couldn’t do that on a verbal agreement.

Hope it all works out for you though, nothing worse than a customer who changes their minds last minute.

[John Gregson]

Just found this, may be of interest to you!

http://www.chameleonink.co.uk/epages/es … Categories

They seem to be coming down in price – fast

[John Gregson]

Type in Heidelberg platen into fleabay and theres one up for £750.00 at the moment – not sure if you need to convert it or if its just a case of getting a cutting forme made.

It may be worth sending the guy a message and asking a few questions.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Sorry but the only ones i’ve seen are the old heidelberg platens and they are large and heavy machines – haven’t got a clue on price.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

For that kind of qty I’d agree with Denise and say its definitely a die cutting job, after they’ve been screen printed.

[John Gregson]

But that’s why the rent is a good deal – he thinks its ok to let folk rummage through your gear. Best of out of it, in my opinion, and getting a place where you control the locks.

[John Gregson]

You’re in a no win situation, time to move me thinks.

[John Gregson]

I think the only thing that’s vat exempt, or zero rated are flyers – what difference does the laser printer make?

[John Gregson]

Don’t forget Mo, you can account for the vat but cannot show it as a separate item on your invoices until your vat number comes through.

I’m going to go the other way – de-registering. Talked about it for ages but finally made the decision and busy sorting the vat 7 form in the next few days.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

I remember seeing white mini wheels years ago with a pinstrip around in red and blue – not sure if these were standard or homemade.

[John Gregson]

weather wasn’t too bad – only took half an hour to dig the car out this morning. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Welcome from a "just slightly" further north Geordie – about a mile more north than Derek. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

I don’t think there is any legal requirement to have pat testing done – if you have employees your insurance may request it though.

[John Gregson]

You won’t be able to sub onto a blue mug as your sub printer won’t print any white ink so photo work wouldn’t work. There are mugs that are coloured but have a white square to sub onto – never used them but heard the results aren’t that great.

[John Gregson]

What type of camera was the other photo taken on – is the quality of the same.

[John Gregson]

quote :

Shame that the printers clog all the time if not used regularly

Not the Ricoh’s – problem free so far with no blockages and sometimes left a few weeks without printing.

If you look on TMT website it claims that the waterslide decal is only suitable if washed at low temps in dishwasher. If you sold your mugs with a disclaimer that would be OK but your far better off printing them with sub ink in my opinion.

[John Gregson]

Who sells the Premium T Shirt vinyl ?

[John Gregson]

I didn’t quite catch it first time round and had to listen again :lol1:

[John Gregson]

If you have a pantone book, and the swatches, why can’t you do it yourself!

I think I must be missing something here! 😮

[John Gregson]

For mugs you need to be using sublimation inks as laser ones look crap and scratch off.

[John Gregson]

Love it 😀 very clever!

[John Gregson]

Does it not have to do with the age of your car to what reg you can have – I don’t think you can try to make an old car look younger by having a newer reg.

Also, these reg companies don’t own any of the plates – they all sell the same one and take a cut off the top that’s why the same reg is different prices at different companies.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

It may be worth a go, but personally, I wouldn’t put a screen on the bench/carousel for any qty under 50 prints.

[John Gregson]

Ian, it takes longer to screen print as you’d have to mask it out, get the right position etc and tbh I cannot understand why you’d want to if you are already cutting the image.

Buy some dayglo flex, cut it on plotter and heat press it onto the t shirt direct. simples.

[John Gregson]

you’d need to specify paper or poly bags as the inks would be totally different.

[John Gregson]

Ad Mo said above, a Ricoh would be the way to go as the inks just don’t clog as much as the Epsons, even when left for long periods.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

:lol1: had to try it aswell – I thought it was a wind up. Very interesting

[John Gregson]

Hi cheryl
You could use the feather command. Drag and drop the photo ontop of the other – draw a square from top left down to bottom then half way across and select feather by around 60% then delete.

It may be the wrong way to do this, as I’m self taught, but it does work.

[John Gregson]

If your Newcastle way i’ll make sure I’ve got biscuits in this time. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Might be better to give a pantone reference as all monitors will show this as different to your original :lol1: if yours and theres aren’t callibrated.

[John Gregson]

Martins looks cool but I like Jill’s the best as its plain and simple.

Jill, whats the fancy font, love that.

[John Gregson]

:lol1:

I’ll bring ya coat round for ya

:lol1:

[John Gregson]

BTC has an organic section – Hanes orange/red/yellow at around £3.50 each. You may be struggling to get anything brightly coloured though as it would defeat the whole point of being organic.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Hi Ian,
For the 5050 printer you can use the 5050 or 7000 carts, they are the same and cost around £60.00 per colour + vat.

The 3300 carts are a smaller capacity so that’s why its cheaper – good thing with the 3300 is it uses the powerdriver which is supposed to be very good.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

I’ve got the 5050n – cracking printer but on mine I cannot use the powerdriver, have to use profile only.

[John Gregson]

do you use a profile, thought it would be powerdriver.

[John Gregson]

Embarrassing to say the least.

if ye knaaa, what a mean – like. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

and a rasterbator! :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Love the ageing effect on the text – a great job to be really proud of.

[John Gregson]

LASER TAG – frickin awesome :lol1:

I heart laser tag

Tag – your on!

Sorry, I’ve ran out – it is Friday. Thats not one though! :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Like Peter has said, they do expect them for pennies but for small runs you can charge a lot more per bag than on the larger runs.

New start up companies or companies attending exhibitions, seminars etc don’t want to place orders for 1000’s of bags and are happy to pay a premium and receive smaller qty’s.

I’m not saying you’ll become a millionaire but there is a little money to be made with the right customer base.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Parts of Harry Potter was filmed here, well not parts of him, but the films :lol1: Lovely place – welcome aboard.

[John Gregson]

Screen printing onto paper bags in one colour is cost effective for orders of between 50 – 500 bags. If you’re ordering in 1000’s then its cheaper to go direct to the bag manufacturers as they print on flat stock and make them into bags afterwards, this allows for multi colour work.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Sublimation would end up too costly for that amount – I screen print onto paper bags but if your looking to do plastic I think it would be flexograhic printing.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

I think its when a female cleaner is cleaning mens toilets and they don’t close them off to the public – so it needs to have the "female" wording.

[John Gregson]

The kids watch Sarah Jane Adventures and I sometimes watch too 😳

Shame – RIP

[John Gregson]

I would say "has" too!

[John Gregson]

Its easily done, like you say, its not worth the argument – and another happy customer that passes on your name/number.

[John Gregson]

Yes, you did ask for confirmation but the phone number would have been your error – I’d have done the same and reprinted for free, then slapped the person who did the artwork. :lol1:

[John Gregson]

Hi Martin,
Alan beat me to it – Coreldraw does a fine job.

[John Gregson]

Looks fantastic Warren, good luck in your new premises.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

The trucks looks similar to Sainsbury at a glance due to the orange

[John Gregson]

We used to screen print these in small quantities onto mactac or budget white perm vinyl. Never had a problem with them coming off – dare say they could be digitally printed but would need a perm adhesive on the vinyl. Fading wise – not sure about digital but the screen printed ones outlived the bottles.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Happy Birthday – hope you have a good one!

[John Gregson]

Cut singles by hand with a knife and straight edge or invest in a guillotine, and cut it in bulk. We used to screen print these by the 1000 as shelf signage for a local bakery and cut them down in bulk on a guillotine.

John

[John Gregson]

Looking at the spec Phill, without these ingredients these vinyls only last a year and then start to fail.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Quick Google search

http://www.allprint.co.uk/

any good?

[John Gregson]

As Peter said, it would help if you stated your equipment, where your mugs are from, paper type, ink type, times & temp.

John

[John Gregson]

Just checked it does relate to that exact day 😳

[John Gregson]

its the 27th or any time soon after that date – it doesn’t have to be filled in on that specific date, just not before it.

[John Gregson]

Just imagine how much its actually cost to print & mail these, along with the return post. I thought the whole country was supposed to be in cost cutting mode – what a total waste of tax payers money.

Could we not have been asked to do this online before the thing crashed through our letterbox.

[John Gregson]

Hi Paul,
Draw your square/rectangle, select it then hit F10 – drag one corner to round off all corners.

Cheers John

[John Gregson]

Enjoyed the game, Crawley did well – they did everything but score.