[Neil Herbert]

Will do Owen.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Thank you Ian for that, they are sorting a price now for me so much appreciated.

I called Amari, Robert Horne, Ensinger etc.. but none were able to help.

[Neil Herbert]

All good.

Thanks Rob

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Kev
Nice job, is it at the fiddlers.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks to Shaun and Neil for their response and help.

Cheers guys

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Andre
We buy our inks from QPS and they are shortly going to release a bulk ink system for the VJ 1604 using the Nazdar inks.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Jason
The process I explained in my last post is for the VJ 1604.

You can set the time span of the self clean from the control panel.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

hi Jason

The way I do a manual head clean is
Turn off printer

lower left and right doors

Lower rollers

Looking at the head through the right hand door, on the left side of the head there is a plastic catch that needs to be pushed down to allow the head to be pushed all the way across to the left.

Through the left hand door you can now clean the perimeter around the head with a swab do not touch the head its self.

With a clean swab you can clean the wiper through the right door.

Return head to original position when finished.

I cut up green scouring pads as replacements for the spitting box.

Onyx or Flexi work well.

Are you running mutoh inks.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Ben
Value Jet 1604 you won’t buy a better machine.
Good luck with whatever you buy.
Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Andre
Did you get sorted with a supplier for the Nazdar carts?

Does anyone know of a reliable bulk ink sys for the VJ 1604.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi 440ml £50.00 but recently been offered for £40.00 all + vat

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi we run flexi with standard profiles seem to work ok.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi we have been using Nazdar inks for about 6 months in our VJ 1604, touch wood no problems. Straight swap no flushing colours good and half price of originals.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

I know it’s late but thought I had to tell my story.

We to are victims in this trade/customer print war. We had a fairly large job of printing large banners for an Ad-Van customer that we gained by spending well over £3000 advertising in the yellow pages. The Ad-van was two large for our value jet 1604 so we looked to outsource it. BP Lightbrigade came up with a decent price that we marked up. The customer accepted this quote and we placed the order asking BP Lightbrigade to discreet mail with no reference to their company what so ever. We had the banners delivered to our workshop as we wanted to see the print quality and check them over and delivered them to our customer. They were perfectly fine and the customer loved them. They went up nicely and we were proud of the job.

The next lot, the customer was in a bit of a rush so we had the banners delivered straight to the customer again DISCREET PACKAGING was the main issue. They were delivered fine and again, were on the ad-van and looked great.

One problem tho….. BP Lightbrigade did not send the banners discreetly and now we have lost a client. They did appologise which is like shutting the stable door after the horse has boltled!!!

We will not use them again….

[Neil Herbert]

Basically yes! 😉

We used to have a LWB, HT, Transit but it had 1 side window and we said it was a carravanette. We saved £50 each trip so it’s one of them that could work and save this guy a fortune or end up costing him more then fitting proper windows.

I think its more about the image for the windows. I’m not saying you have to print seats but blacked out windows could work. I have stated my conserns so the ball is in his court.

I appreciate your help guys, thank you!

[Neil Herbert]

Work to be very proud of, excellent stuff.

Thanks for posting.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Just found this pic, 4mm Amaribond panel set in fence posts with a routed grove all round, panel size from memory 1500 x 800mm.
Hope this may help.

[Neil Herbert]

Ian how big is the sign.

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Martin

We have used both Graphy and Victory both have been ok no complaints.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Stickmeup

Hope this helps it is a vector.

Neil

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[Neil Herbert]

Angelique we have in the past eyeleted correx board then cable tied in place this works ok.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Incredible work so much detail at such a small scale, stunning.

Thanks for sharing.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

quote Gareth Lewis:

I tried photozoompro myself a couple of months ago. Then I tried to email the increased res. file to my outsourced large format printing co. in England………no way, hose.

If you have in house printers all well and good but any clues as to what to do if you havent?

Try http://www.cutesendit.com worth signing up and downloading free desktop program.

Hope this helps

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi we have been running a 1604 for about 18 months now and we cannot fault it, best bit of kit we have ever bought. We run a Summa D160 with optical for print and cut works well on plain vinyl and the like but sometimes struggles with over laminated work.

We used Alan Flynn (Flynn Signs) as our supplier good service good deal.

Hope this is of some use.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks guys very useful files hopefully I can return the favor soon.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Micky_D

The same happened to me but I got a message today saying my subscription had run out so have just joined as a full member.

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks Steve I will try these now.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi all

We have done a few jobs like this and what we have done is to use white cling in the software draw a contour cut larger than the disk place your image in the centre and scale then print and cut.

Hope this may be of some help.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi All
We have recently started using smart knives so far very good results on all size of text.
The guy at Mathias was very helpful and also gave a tip when cutting out labels don’t use flex cut but application tape the back of the vinyl then crank up the pressure on the knife to cut through the vinyl and backing but not the app tape keeping that smart knife just for this procedure . Properly a lot of you already know this tip dose it work as I have not tried it yet.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi has anyone have contact details for s+d that they would like to share.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Are u sure that the lines are separate, how big is the text ?

[Neil Herbert]

Adrian

I would try the online option.

Hope this helps

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Adele

Welcome to the boards I’m sure u will find lot of help and friendly advice on the boards.

Good luck with your new business venture.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Point taken is Vandal resistant a better tag?

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Fatman that’s the type of thing that I had in mind and I am sure the I saw them at Sign UK about 3/4 yrs ago looked pretty tough.

Thanks to all for the replies and help.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Ezy taper excellent machine and very versatile.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks to all for your help so simple, I’ve been thinking far to deep and complicated.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi SimonM
We run a VJ1604 with onyx and a Summa cutter we think the onyx rip is brilliant for both print and print and cut, we have had our VJ for about 1yr.

Hope this is of some help.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Sorry, it was meant that I will be leaving when getting kicked out on thursday but instead of going home (to the Isle of Wight) we have a coaching course in Swindon on Sat & Sun so a waste of time going home! That why I need to find a bar with a car park to stay in! Sorry for the confusement lol

[Neil Herbert]

I have my 22" widescreen monitor set at 1680 x 1050.

As to the 2nd point, the gold one sounds like a DVI connection, you would use this instead of the standard VGA connection. Check the back of your computer to see if you have the same connection on there. DVI would be slightly better quality then the VGA.

This is what my tech guy says, I havn’t got a clue what it means!

[Neil Herbert]

Can’t make Wednesday unfortunately so will have to find a bar (with a car park to stay in)

[Neil Herbert]

Me and my partner are going on the Thursday! Look for the Camper-van in the car park. We are going Max & Paddy style. So where’s this Bar and something to do with tables 😀

[Neil Herbert]

It is a low heat with no adjustment just plug and play.
It doesn’t seam to affect the humidity.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

David

Yes it does have a heater built in and we leave it on to help the curing.
We made our stackable plates from off cuts of diabond trimed to size and double sided taped the plug side of some plastic locaters to the underside as feet.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

We bought a propagator from our local garden center for around £25.00. We lay our sheet of labels on some board with feet inside the propagator and stack as high as we need. We then leave them a day and they are fine.

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Kimberly, My partner (Neil Herbert) has a builders yard in Dagenham and on the side, had a CNC router and a 610 vinyl cutter. After moving from Dagnham to the Isle of Wight, Neil brought his little cutter over and did a few things for local pubs etc… I (Damon Larter) was 15 and started dating his daughter. I helped out with a few bits and pieces but didn’t no what I wanted to do with my life but picked up the software and machinery quiet well and most importantly enjoyed it. So here we are today (now almost 22) in a small workshop with a Value Jet and Summa Cutter. No longer with his daughter but I got a business out of it lol!!!

[Neil Herbert]

I have a few different WMF files that may be of use but there are a few. Any chance of searching google for a jpeg??

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks Chris for the reply. I think that is a similar type of layout to what we are now thinking!

Well they say goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings (or did I just make that up???)

I don’t think you ever have enough space but our workshop at the moment is around 10m x 5m!!!

[Neil Herbert]

That’s a good point well made, I had the Idea of open planned because the space can be used for multiple things where as you are limited to space in purpose built rooms. I will sit down tonight with my partner and go through some more plans.

Thank you for every ones opinions so far!!! Much appreciated!!!

[Neil Herbert]

It could be more welcoming as well! I like the idea of that, and also, no one would have to man the reception! That is something to think about, thanks Jason

[Neil Herbert]

John & Martin, Laminating was a problem being downstairs and I like the idea of the meeting room downstairs. I suppose we could use a divider type wall so you could open and close the meeting room and wheel the laminator into position if kept upstairs???

Also Dave, I have requested the user name change, thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Steve, don’t worry, there will be a fridge in the kitchen (a large one) which I’m sure wont only be used for eggs!!!

[Neil Herbert]

It is completely from scratch! We are just in the layout stages but the design of the building is to size. I.e. the router would fit in that room. When i get a chance i will put a few measurements on it for a better idea. The cutter and printer would be upstairs with the designer but once done, would go downstairs for laminating (on the Eazy Taper) The printer is a Mutoh Value Jet 1.6 and the cutter is a Summa Cut D160 SE

The idea is for the vinyls to be room temperature and away from dust. The problems and money saved from a clean environment I personally think would warrant going up and down the stairs.

Carrying the rolls up the stairs would be a problem tho!!!

Oh, and great idea about cutting machines to scale out of vinyl!

[Neil Herbert]

Excellent fitting Richard and a big well done to all that helped.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Cheers for all your help guys, I think I will be popping down to Halfords shortly.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Jamie would you know to get the vinyl paint from and how durable would it be. What do you think about screen ink?.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks for the swift reply Kev! What about using the vinyl as a mask and applying ink/paint of some sort (stencil)

Never done this before so wouldn’t know what sort to use????

[Neil Herbert]

Thanks Warren that’s what I had in mind.

Thanks to all for your help will post some pic’s when finished.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi peter I thought the slide on method would allow for some expansion and I could still fit 4 rails.

Where would recommend to buy channel and clips from.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

I was going to fit two sets of rails one top one bottom facing opposite ways and slide the sign on from the side and lock the rails together with a self tapper on the ends.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Rob the sign is going outside and is 1800mm high x 1400mm wide dibond fitted on to two posts.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi £3500 was the asking price.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Stuart

I no Amari have started stocking a new LED system just for light boxes, I have an appointment with them on Friday for a demo I will post with my findings.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Greg

Firstly welcome to the boards

Many moons ago I went to Warren as did three of my children and I lived in Chadwell Heath most of my life until 8 years ago when we moved to the Isle of Wight.

I am sure you will find a lot of help and advice here.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi all
Thanks for the warm welcome.

There are only 3 of us in the workshop on the Island number 4 operates from our unit in Essex, all cnc routing is done there on a Camtech Z7 with an 8 x 4 bed. On the island we operate a Value Jet 1604 printing canvas, banners and vinyl with a summa SE1600 for contour and vinyl cutting with an Ezy Taper for mounting / laminating.

We have recently launched a website for canvas printing that is our baby at the moment.

Enough about me what do you specialize in Lynn ?

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi
We have a wired and wireless network setup. We bought a network hard disk enclosure from Maplins it sits on the network to be accessed by all computers, works a treat. If you want the name i can get it when i go to work tomorrow.

By the way as recommended by others Netgear is a good bit of kit.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

hi Lisa

The Mutoh Value Jet printers are outstanding in all departments speed, ease of use, quality, maintenance and used with the Onyx rip colour issues seam to be a thing of the past.

We have had our 1604 for nearly a year now best bit of kit we have ever purchased. Before we purchased we took some files to Sign UK had them printed on a short list of machines that we were interested in and the VJ came out best so we bought the VJ and a Summa SE 1600 cutter with optical eye for couture cutting, both have turned out to be excellent machines.

Purchased both from Allan Flynn (Flynn Signs)

Hope this is of some help.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Neil

We have used xpres since Tams have dried up, we have found them very good both for lack of flaws and printer-ability.

Hope this is of some help

Cheers

Neil Herbert

[Neil Herbert]

Hi dennis

Try this http://www.grafityp.co.uk/GrafiPrint/grafiprint-SPP.htm
Hopfully some use.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi, to round the corners I bought a 90o curved wood chisel from a boot market for £2 works a treat for rounding corners on many materials and if you blunt it you can just resharpen.

Cheers
Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi marketdrayton

£1500 ono is what we will be looking for as it is a good site and just needs marketing. In with this price you will receive a CD with all the site code, files and contact details of site code writers for future changes and or improvements. Sorry I cannot PM with the membership that I have.

Cheers
Neil

[Neil Herbert]

We purchased our VJ from Allan Flynn

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi
We have had our VJ 1604 for 7months now and it is a pleasure to use, highly recommended.

We would be interested in receiving details of a bulk ink system if possible.

Cheers
Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Arran
We have a VJ 1604 and suffered this problem we found it normally was caused by the head brushing the top of the canvas. We found that the way the material was wound was important and when loading on to back spool rather than pushing the ends on tight we left some play this allowed the roll to move sidewards when needed an cured our problem.

Also check for a build up of ink on the bottom of the head and surrounding area.

Hope this is of some help

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Marko

Who’s LESs do u use if thats not a rude question.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Cheers for the reply Marko very helpful

I will try all the combinations with my tests and post the results.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi All

Marko YYZ

We completed a job not so long ago using flat cut letters with LEDs but the halo is almost non existent , we are just about to replace a couple of letters fitted with new LEDs (they look similar to yours in the photos) to test the brightness I think our problem is because the background colour is a dark red, would you suggest applying white vinyl cut in the shape of the letters and applied to the substrate behind the flat cut letters?

When you say with the premask on is this a software setting or app tape applied to the vinyl face?

Cheers

Neil

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Sorry haven’t made many posts yet didn’t realize I had to post to a new thread.

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Proper job Rich

We completed a job not so long ago using flat cut letters with LEDs but the halo is almost non existent , we are just about to replace a couple of letters fitted with new LEDs as to test the brightness I think our problem is because the background colour is a dark red.

If anyone has any advice it would be most welcome

Once again great job

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Cheryl

Great job well done, did you use full solvent ink or eco solvent was there any over lamination used. Very interested as we have a 64" printer running eco inks but durability would be an issue without lamination but we would like to take on similar jobs.

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi Colin

Our VJ is the same as yours a dream to use. we also have the summa D1600 SE you mention The flex cut facility what is this?

Cheers

Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hi we have been running VJ 1640 + Onyx for 2 months with a summa D1600 with out any problems.
We took our own files to Sign UK and had them printed buy both printers there was a noticeable difference + a separate print & cut setup I think is better.

Cheers
Neil

[Neil Herbert]

Hello, we have the LG system, well 2 in fact! One for our I.O.W branch and one for our Essex branch. They have been successful. The kit itself is an OKI C5250 printer and software etc… It does the job well but there are rumours of the yellow plates fading after 2 years but i suppose they should be replaced in that time anyway. We have also done a couple of shows where we converted a horse trailor and sold them out of it with alot of interest. The help and support is good, we get it from Tennants UK or LG themselves. Our guy in Essex may be interested in selling one of our plate systems but not sure how that would stand with the help and support etc…
All in all we are happy with our choice. (mod-edit)

Any questions, let me know!

[Neil Herbert]

Hi we have just had a 64" Value Jet installed yesterday, we chose that machine at the sign show because of the weaving system which seams to sorts out any banding problems. So far so good. We have been using a 54" Resolve and have tried printing problem files on the new machine and great results on all so far.

Neil