Michael Potter
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As an honest person myself it hurts that you have no trust. however this could be rectified by simply sending me large amounts of cash.
many thanks Mr Mike -
welcome from down under
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John I think you said exactly what Chris said, but using slightly different words. In the end it is each to their own.
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we run a picture framing business, wife’s department.
The picture framing was the main part when we started but over time signage followed by Dye Sub have moved in to 1 & 2 followed by picture framing. -
Don’t worry Shane by the time he turns 21 he will be amazed how much you have knowledge you have acquired in the last few years.
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Top stuff Jason, you will need a bigger shed soon and no time for jet skiing.
enjoyed meeting you again.cheers Mike and gloria -
Merry Christmas everybody & thanks for your help.
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all we can hope is that the crims have to do the relevant OH &S course
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its an old international harvester tractor perhaps if you google you may find something useful.
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Like any country Australia will in the main part be what you make it. The weather is a whole lot different to the UK and yes we do talk kinda funny. Here we plan to do everything outside and our second plan would be to come inside. the economy is suffering just like everywhere else but in the whole unemployment in low 30c high 20c is much more pleasant than freezing cold. I would try to get a job just to learn the differences in Prices and materials that exist here compared to your home. From reading the boards vinyl acts slightly different in our heat compared to your average days, wouldn’t take long to get used to but it just adds to the learning curve.
Finally we play England soon in the cricket so you will have to get used to being called ‘a bl**dy pom’ Mostly said with love but you will soon know when it’s nasty. I have lived here most of my life and think it is about the best place on earth, but admit I am probably slightly biased. I would also start in employment so you can have a good look around Australia before deciding finally on where to settle,we are a very large land mass and each area is vastly different from the tropics down to Tasmania which is similar to the UK in weather Sorry to ramble.
cheers Mike 😀Not sure if I can add this but it is the web address for one of our sign magazines that has a on line version with employment section:-
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Nice pictures, I absolutely love your eyes. In a strictly platonic sense .
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Hi Steve
yes corel 12 will run your cutter. I use mine with wincut for my Summa and my pc60 which cuts on hairlines. hopefully somebody with more knowledge will jump in -
I use both Vinyl master pro &/or Corel either would do what you need VMP is the cheapest in Australia. we have used it for 2 1/2 years
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Sorry Dave didn’t understand any of that. All I know is if I design a business card in corelx4 then export it as a tiff to desk top then it looks like Peters’ example, send it to printer and it comes back the same as corel shows it. must admit it’s a nervous 3 days waiting to see what I get
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Gloria & I are going to Victoria to catch up with the kids.
Plan to spend 2-3 weeks doing it. Mainly to take my mind of the fact that we have no work to come back to.
Have a very happy Christmas and new year & Thanks to all for the help & Friendship.
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May be Dad could come over Tuesdays & Fridays. That would work well for me, Need somebody to blame, I tried blaming Gloria but that seemed to delay the arrival of the evening meal… sometimes for days.. Even tried to promote her to Management in charge of things that go wrong (:)
as i say Tues & Fridays lunch provided. If it helps he and I could include a brief session to discuss your frailties. (chat.)
Looking forward to his arrival.
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gee Shane, why would Dad be relying on you to remember things… Didn’t you just say you were having problems with buses 1, 2, 3 & maybe 4. Poor old Dad
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Hi Karl if you pay our air fares we will deliver it for nothing.
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Have had the pleasure of meeting ( in no particular order) Shane Drew who lives about 45 min away. He has helped me with printing and guidance on the job.
Had the pleasure of meeting Jason who lives about 1900klms away, we met on the boards and then at a sign show we will be catching up over the Christmas break as we trip down to his area, he to has been very generous
with time and materials.
My eternal thanks to both of these top Aussies and UKSB members.
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Congrats to you both Jill. really nice picture.
Our youngest turns 30 today not sure how that works as my head still thinks I’m 21. My body thinks I’m 90. Dropped something the other day and left it till something else dropped. Had to make the trip down worthwhile.
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Hi Gavin
If this makes you feel any better we are 33c at 10.30 am expecting 37c with violent storms. should be loads of fun. must admit we have closed the tin shed we work in until later today.
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thank you
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OK what’s Dragons Den? A TV show?
Thanks MIke 🙂
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welcome Tim
enjoy your time on the boards very helpful group of people.
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Well it seems that woolies Australia were not connected to any other woolies when it was founded
http://www.dse.com.au/isroot/dse%5Csupport/woo … istory.pdf
gives a 47 page outline on woolies history in Australia. I don’t doubt that today they all have shares in each. Now I don’t know what to believe like all history I guess it depends on the outlook of the original reviewer.
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😳 😳 Just saw on an ABC website that Woolworth Australia & UK were some how connected to Woolworth USA which is not what we were told when we did our management training. so I have sent an email to Woolworth here for clarification.
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no Woolies in Australia aren’t related to Uk or USA Unless things have changed in the last 20 years I used to be a woolies Manager in Australia. woolies started here in Sydney as a single store with flat bed counters G J Coles started about the same time also with flatbed counters in Sydney the 2 companies went at it hammer and tongue even to this day usuallt the 2 stores were only 1 or 2 doors apart, Untill recently Coles were number 2 over here, then we brought in an American Chief Excutive. Coles have lost massive market share and had to sell Myer which they had bought a few years earlier Myer is probably our number 1 department store set-up cheers Mike
Things do seem to be all doom & Gloom at the moment world wide. what worries me is the brains that are trying to fix it are the same brains that got us into it in the first place.
To fight inflation our reserve bank increased interest rates several times then the economy stalled so we are having huge rate cuts but we still have high inflation. their excuse is Oh! we didn’t see that coming. Well I for one thought thats what they got the big bucks for. -
Woolworths is the biggest retailer in Australia no relation to the UK woolies. ours has about 50% of the groceries market plus discount stores, electrical outlets, clothing stores, fuel outlets and financial outlets.
Sorry to be ignorant but what does UK woolies do or did.
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Really really like the whole layout.
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yep orange solv works really well. Methylated spirits works well as well depends on substrate i guess.
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congratulations to Mum & Dad. you all had great weather for the night a bit windy but very pleasant.
I have had the pleasure of meeting you and Dad in the work environment, and the bond you 2 have is worth all the money in the world, I would say that you each are the others best mate.. PRICELESS!!!
Cheers Mike.
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ouch!!!!!
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now Jill don’t tell me you do scrapbooking as well.
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sorry I am no help.But I am amazed that you have a society of master thatchers. Don’t think we have that here in the colonies.
cheers Mike 😮
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Hi Shaun
We use Oracle 641 or Avery 500 for our stickers / Decals. Very occasionally Oracle 551 or Avery 700.
Only had one question about thickness,but the client was installing on to a sign in 34 degrees centigrade, full sun, hot substrate when I say hot you could fry eggs on it. No wonder the vinyl was a bit stretchy.
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oh that’s really, sad even when you know it’s only rags & paper 😥
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Hi Jason
not sure I can answer any of your questions. but Steve godson a sign writer
on the south side of Bris. Had to get full council permission with constructional plans from an engineer, pay all appropriate fees and register the pylon with council then attach the supplied number to pylon.
cheers Mate
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well now we all know?
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We buy from print1 in the USA nice people and caddies have come with the foil every time. mind you we have asked each time as well.
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it’s certainly the little things that can ruin a photo. 🙂
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No but as I don’t even wrap the lunch I guess I can be ignored.
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Hi Jason
I take it the trip to Sydney went well.
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Just go to the help section on thunderbird type in change font and follow the prompts. or go options tools etc.
hope that helps
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:welcome: cheers Mike
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(oogle) yep that sure is big.
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Hi Shane
we have had the same problem we were told to load it in to illustrator as this had better colour control. not sure if that helps or not. we also had to submit the fill as a tiff. only business cards, so it may not be relevant.
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Hi Neil
just select the shape arrange cuts off.
As far as I know the green is the cut line on whatever shape it is on.
Have also found that the cut line comes back if I have played with the shape.
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Ditto mate
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we use Estimate as well and find it a great piece of software.
The people are good to deal with even though we are far far away.
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thanks everybody it’s only for bumper stickers for a local cafe. it’s just me and the wife being a little anal I guess. It probably sounds really corny but we just want to be the best that we can be.
what are the lab numbers?? 😳 😳 😳
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Sorry Kimberley
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Marko
What would happen if we just closed the stock exchanges for a period of time to allow things to stabilise, also why does interest rates have to rise on loans already in existence, car loans don’t.
only ashing because I don’t know.
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hi Shane/Jason
Is this a private catch up or can 2 old people join in.
Only kidding we registered yesterday see you there.
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wow that sure took a bigger lenses than we own.
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But I like Brush script
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Shane.
You’ve done lots of Arabic signs ???? -
Hi Jill
I don’t know you as well as the others do but I always read your comments, they are always good even when correcting a design it is done with respect. From your Picture, your comments and how others have judged you on this thread I would say you are one of Gods great designs blessed with a humble but caring personality.
Cheers Mike
Ps look how many friends and visitors you have on the American sign boards 😀 -
gee Shane
Now I’ve just had to explain to Gloria why I was Laughing.
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thanks everybody.
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Now just stop it Jill.
I am still getting over the change of surname, maybe you remarried, if they allow marriages at such a tender young age. 🙂 -
Thanks for the time taken to answer.
the printer was seeing the border as process black and the main print as spot black I don’t know why because I had set them as spot black everywhere ( I thought) Somebody in USA pointed out a button called 123 button that list what foils it is going to use and if you don’t like it you can then bring up the one you don’t like and change it. Just had to print the bottom panel again and all went as I wanted.
Thanks for the time taken to answer.
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Hi Karen what actually is or isn’t happening?
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Any Picture framing supplier should be able to supply the stretcher bar moulding They are usually about 3meters in length. Pine with a basic rectangular profile one corner is rounded and the top surface has a slight angle to keep the canvas of of the bar when stretched. Framers cut at 45 degrees then underpin at any size. when stretching with a hand stretcher the pivot point hooks under the inside bottom edge. so you shouldn’t have any problems. If I can help further just pm me ( my wife is a picture framer and has made many many stretcher frames including a 1800mm x 1200mm indigenous art piece.
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we screwed the plastic roll ends to our table. didn’t last long but might get you out of trouble.
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Well Shane
mighty fine job
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As far as I know corel won’t cut directly so what add on are you using to do the cutting?
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Thanks everybody
Slowly working through the suggestions.
Thank you heaps
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well done to all three.
Its really nice to have the opportunity to learn from the best.
cheers & good wishes
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thank you….thank you…..thank you.
It was the rendering step i was missing and no matter how many times i read it in the manual it just didn’t register with me.
funny how the same thing said slightly differently makes all the difference.
Thanks to all.
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hi Nicola
we can get R Tape conform series with RLA
which is advertised as a lay flat tape which resists wrinkling & edge curl on aged cut graphics.
Hope this helps
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Hi Paul
how did you do the mask?
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Sorry I don’t know how to do the mask but we do have the magic hands software. the mask is printed out in black on to good quality laser paper and is used in the weeding process well sort of it seems to bond to the coating on the mt paper and hen you strip it it peels the coating from the mt sheet.
I know what I am trying to say but not sure if I can make it plain enough to understand. If needed I will try again.
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hi Martin
As i said we have just bought a Gerber edge and sought Franks advice before buying ours came with a program security Key and Program to run said machine over here when they were originally sold, they were sold with omega software.
ours is only an Edge not an edge 2. I have been told the main difference is 300DPi verses 600 x 300 DPI. we looked for several years and this is only the second one to come on to the market that we saw.
Cost to us was $7000 Australian.
the machines are built like sherman tanks and are really good gear.
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Hi Martin
In MHO you should get the plotter side well and truly under your belt before adding a printer to your arsenal. As you say they can be expensive to run and clients tend to get a bit picky re colours all of which requires you to learn more skills. We did just cut vinyl for 4 years and only moved in to printing in the last few months firstly with a old Roland pc60 and only this week we bought a Gerber edge. you need to be sure what you are wanting to print and what purpose will your clients will be putting your finished product to. Do you need to go solvent, eco solvent or thermal and I am sure there are more options. I don’t personally know of any small solvent or eco solvent printers about 760mm wide is the smallest I know of, having said that ordinary inkjets can print to special coated product which is available. but we only used it once.
hope this is of some help
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Hi Ian
I have used VMP for a couple of years now and have been very pleased with it. I am starting to use Corel more & more as it works well for Dye sub.
At the price I don’t think you could get better value for money. Like all programs it has bits you love and bits that other programs do better but all in all it works well.
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Gavin is probably right about the wood aspect. we have attaches signs this size with 3m VHB tape applied about 18months ago with no problems.
but we were applying to steel.
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Thanks Shane 🙂
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Thanks Jason
The printer I am talking to uses a roland something solvent print & Cut.
Cheers Mike
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absolutely lovely box Jason. well done mate
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Sorry Jason
As I am not a printer user I can’t visualize what you mean, can you describe with different words. sorry . but I do thank you for the time you have taken.
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hi Jamie
Ask your brother about the sign show there was a stand there left hand side half way down he had illuminated signage that could run of aa batteries could be placed on bottles shirts or anything for that matter. I will try to find an email he sent me and send it to you.
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we to had to replace our laser after a friend used it to print on to magic touch paper. it melted on to the hot thingy really hurt as the printer had only done 4 a4 sheets for us.
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Hi John
we are probably the least qualified to answer your question. our only claim to fame is we were in exactly the same position and went for the PC60. My advise to you would be save for the solvent print and cut. the quality we get from our PC60 is not as good as the later machines but that could be just us however the ribbons are not cheap and this makes your images a lot more expensive to produce there for Tyre kickers go else where. what worries me is that we may get a reputation for charging over the top prices. To try to avoid this we sell at very near our cost prices and still have trouble matching solvent prices. There is no doubt that once you have a printer, printing type work seems to arrive at your door. this may of course be a mind set on our behalf. in closing save for the later model.
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welcome Andrew
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Hi Jame
If it is just 1 carrier and you only do small jobs you can still run CMYK and one spot colour. well I think you can.
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Mark, we do lots of name stickers some with a simple logo. we just use cheap vinyl get the plotter to cut the background shape generally on white, then cut the name etc weed everything then proceed as normal. we started doing them when we relocated and business was slow. now we do them because we don’t want to let the customer down. they are a pain to do and we make very little on the jobs. but it all helps the bank account.
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Thanks Chris
that did the trick.
Thanks to everybody for the time and effort.
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thanks Phill
I tried that but nothing happened.
thanks for your time
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Thanks for your time Robert.
That’s the first thing I did. actually thought of my self as really clever. alas no change.will try to go back further and see if that makes a difference.
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Hi and welcome
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Thanks Jason
time for me to go and play.
Cheers Mike 😀
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Hi Jason
Stupid question time again. what do you mean by "the triangle Thing"?
Thanks mate
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Alexis at least you have learned that life’s mistakes should always be in somebody Else’s life.
Stick with the name brands and buy the best that you can budget for. All the top brands have their followers We have a Summa and find it fantastic. But I think all the name brands are good otherwise they wouldn’t have a good name. Cheers Mike -
I new that Steve.
I could tell from the various photos that everybody in them had a good time.
You were one of the people I recognised. absolutely no problems from my end.
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gee thanks Steve.
Cheryl you still are all i stated. -
The phone thing happened to my poor old Dad in a bank. I had gone with him because he couldn’t stand for long and was very feeble. Phone rang service stopped so I leant across and pressed the hang up buttons, you should have seen the look on the persons face. I said sorry we were here first they can wait. I will report you to senior management she said so I replied don’t bother give me their number & I will call them now. Dad just blinked at me but I think deep inside he was quite proud.
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Personally Cheryl.
I thought you were a very pretty girl with a great personality. These other boys are just being naughty, something an Aussie would never do.
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We have a fletcher mat cutter for our picture framing side and the wife lets me cut some sign products on it 6mm pvc is about as big as she will let me use. the quality of fletcher cutters is very good.
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Thanks Jill and Karl
Using one of those aluminium Composite panels, well actually 5 of them.
Thanks for the prompt replies.
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HI we have been doing dye sub for several months as an add on to our sign & frame business. we haven’t promoted it much just mention that we can supply whatever with there signs and from time to time give a thank you mug with larger sign jobs. We are at the stage where dye sub brings in nearly as much as Frames. We bought a Epsom 1290 6 colour a3 printer 38cm x 38cm press, mug press bulk artarium inks. We have since added a small mighty press which is fantastic. we also invested in a laser temp gauge and found that our original press was 25 degrees Celsius out ( to High) once this was sorted our problems reduced dramatically. Press was Chinese. Like all things you get what you pay for. My wife wants to sell the framing & concentrate on shirts , mugs etc
Cheers Mike