Mike Thornley
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I never do what is call spec designs, our website shows the quality of our work and customer feedback on said work. I usually find these are the time wasters.
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Thanks for the reply Keith, only reply to actually mention an alternative product.
For me using Brexit as the reason to increase prices seems a little spurious, second price rise from Metamark in the last few months, stating the reason is because a significant increase in raw materials costs, so once things settle down and these costs possibly decrease and stablise, will the prices be reflect this, I doubt it. Call me on old cynic
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Been using Metamark, but another price increase on the way, so looking around at options.
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The panels are to fit a frame for a portable photo booth and supplied by our client. Job is to recover and add logo etc.
So can’t buy new panels, but I will give the signgeer stuff a go.
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Yes I have had the same thing with Digiprint with their ink, ordered, saying in stock etc when they are not.
Also found out that they cut the date stamp off Roland inks, I wonder why they do this, hide the use by date by any chance!!! -
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Now sold, thanks
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We are located in Worksop
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As the saying goes, buy cheap, pay twice….
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Hi Dave
A couple of percent doesn’t bother me, but 175 to 210 is 20% which is a large increase in one go. Which is why I had a double take when we were advised on the new cost, I thought they had quoted me the price including VAT.
Thanks all the comments.
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It would also be useful to know what other members charge out at.
I tend to work on £35/M for MD3
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Hi Dave
We must be paying different prices then, who’s your supplier?
I was paying £175 for a 1370 roll of MD5, price I got yesterday was now £210.00
MD3 up by about £10 and MD3A by £12
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I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but obviously if they are on anyone’s recommends list then we can disregard etc. Anyway alls well now as they have sorted our order for delivery tomorrow.
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Feel a new invention coming on. I’m patenting the idea here….
Laminator with a built in vacuum???
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Meant to add, you would be better of being Applemac based on the design side of things also with industry standard software packages.
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Hi Steff
My business is design, print, web and signs. The sign work being a new addition to our business.
So we are coming from the other way to you.
We are in the same position in needing a graphic designer and still thinking on this, but we are thinking of starting with someone part-time and see how they go. It all depends on what level you are looking at and what you want the design for?
Is it design for commercial print or design for sign work. If its for commercial print then they need to have an understanding of print processes to produce commercial print ready artwork. I have been surprised at how many don’t understand this.We have tried offsite freelancers and it does work, but sometimes it is easier to have someone on site as you have more control.
Have a look on People per Hour and see if there is anyone in your local area you could commission for a job and see how they go, if you need any advise please get in touch, happy to help.
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Hi Chris
I was going to offer to do the conversions for you, while you get sorted in the short-term, as long as its not hundreds a month etc…
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Hi Chris
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Managed to order a part direct from Creation.
As soon as I can it will be replaced with a Graphtec.
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I bet also they are the kind of client, who never pays on time and you have to chase them for payments
Just sacked a client for taking months to pay, just had final cheque today.
Made me laugh when he said I was unprofessional for telling him he was not a client anymore. I don’t think he got the irony.
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Found some….
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Thanks for the replies.
The logo I did for free, but I didn’t want to hand over to the other sign company, a vector’d logo to make it easy for them.
They quoted 50 quid to sign up a Ford Fiesta van, which is just ridiculous, which our client has jumped at.
If they are daft enough to offer such a price which included recreating the logo, then they probably won’t be around to long.
I did offer to price match and do as a loss leader to keep their future business, but to no avail, I did also point out about consistent branding etc etc.
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I agree, but very difficult to tell the client they are over reacting and it was a non issue.
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Passed on it, decided not enough in it for the effort needed, I am alway honest, told potential client that they are already paying way under the going rate and a 4p increase again is still way under, so stay where they are.
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‘What the Font’ is a good online resource.
Up load a jpeg, the site then tries to identify the font from the image, it works quite well.
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We are a design and print business and outsourced our sign work for quite a while, but decided to bring it in house.
We bought a refurb’d Roland SP540v from one of the dealers, yes slightly more than buying of ebay, but I didn’t mind paying more for the peace of mind. It came to us as a virtually a brand new machine with warranty.I would say as a first wide format solvent printer, I would highly recommend the Roland, I am really pleased, we have done a wide variety of projects on it in the 3 months we have had the printer, which it has done with ease. Yes an older model, so not the fastest, but cheap to run, easy to look after, so has been a great addition, plus I have control, which is what I wanted for our clients.
We did look at the latex, but at the budget we had, but came to the conclusion that the Roland was the better option for different kinds of work and being able to print and cut gave it the edge.
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Realise this has been answered, but a good tip to get around this that works is as follows
Import the Illustrator file you have into Indesign. (any version)
Export the file to a PDF.
Then open the PDF in your version of Illustrator, the file should then be editable.
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Hi Kev
We don’t have a take up roller, so each panel was printed one at a time, over different days.
Mike
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No it wasn’t the trimming as we didn’t print bleed top and bottom, the two rules run across horizontally in the design.
So the bottom rule on panel 2 which is about 10 inches from the bottom, didn’t align with the same rule on panel 3 etc
If it was just a case of trimming the solid off we would have done that to compensate.
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Have some white, so I have layered the yellow onto white, fixed to the dibond
The cut the text and arrow in black and fixed on top.
Lot more work and materials but yes it works and looks better.So is there any 100% opaque / block out vinyls out there
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Just enquired, the software is only a demo and so far no release date and its not versaworks, its something else.
Sounds like standard printer rip software. -
Thanks for that, I will check it out at the show.
Just be a case of when it will ship for mac and if its and extra cost. -
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Thanks for the reply, do you have more info on the UV inks for a Roland?
Regards
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Hi Rob
I coming from the other way, sign companies offering print services, so we are doing our own signs.
Just buy them in from trade printers (go litho) toner based digital not good for me. Defo not our friends at Vista
I can buy 500 full colour business cards printed on 450gsm board, matt or gloss lam for not a lot, inc white label delivery.