Nigel Pugh
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quote Dave Rowland:Grafityp are regular posters here I suspect they will have some suggestions for you.Good luck with you new purchase. Is the DGI UV based or solvent?
Full solvent Dave 😀
Our production plant in Belgium say in reference to 3.2 mtr wide vinyl, they cannot get the backing paper supplied in that width hence they cannot produce 3.2 wide media.
Happy to oblige
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David there are a lot of machines out there that will do the job, just depends what your budget is for said machine, anything from £700 to say £3,500 would give you a massive choice.
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Annie looked stunning Deb you are correct, didn’t want to say anything just let the pics speak for themselves when they arrive 😀
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Mr Rowland you do seriously worry me at times :lol1:
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"one thing, why didnt we all get an invite to the stag night? a tad scared we would leave you "cuffed" to a lamp post head to toe in grafiwrap! "
Just back, and Rob you would not believe how many I forgot to invite to the stag do, I need to have another just to invite all those I forgot lol
Well the day was brilliant, everything went as planned and the weather was perfect, photos to follow, oh and yep I did look good in the skirt :lol1:
Back at work Monday 3rd July 👿 so feel free to hassle me
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three and half years planning Peter, but it has kinda crept up on me 😮
Thanks Nik, I will post pics as soon as I have them, you will like em Nik as I’m wearing a kilt
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John if you can let me have your address I will send you our cast swatch so you can see the colours as they are.
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This is a good thread to read, the one thing no one has pointed out though is exactly where you are reading this, no not your location 🙄
but the internet, a website in fact.So a company website is just another tool needed to help business flourish, its just the next new thing to get yourself noticed.
Nigel
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Glad you got the problem solved Derek, and of course glad to help.
Nigel
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Hi Derek, do you want to give me a call so we can get you working.
Regards
Nigel
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Sorry for the late reply to this thread but I have been away until today.
Jaguar models carry a 2yr on-site warranty and the problem you are having could either be sensor error on a pinch roller or motor error.
As I don’t know what your company name is could you please contact myself so I can check to see if your Jaguar problem has been resolved.
Thanks
Nigel
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SignPal Jaguars and the earlier Ultra models allow you to use expanded mode, normally you would get say 580 to 590mm cut width, go on expanded mode and as Peter says it will look past the end of the outside rollers and allow you to cut 610mm.
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Tark contact our sales office for vinyl swatches and request samples of any series vinyl you would like to have a closer look at.
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Thank you Lynn, honesty does prevail………if I remember rightly we couldn’t shift Rob off the stand last year, he was still there after the stand had been taken down lol
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PS John, if beer is involved then I have a memory, where the partner is involved after a beer, then strangly no memory :lol1:
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Hang on John, you said you was going to kidnap me and land me in the bar 😛
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Now you know John when I said it was hard work and hands on I was telling the truth 😀
Hope you don’t mind me saying congratulations on both of you passing the course……..never had a doubt 😉
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I have seen this type of thing before and it was because the wrong plotter driver was selected, thus changing the output to be 50% bigger than actual job size was meant to be.
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Karen you can import 30 different file types into SignPal software so clip art images should never be a problem, what level of the software are you running, Apprentice, Expert, Master or Pro.
Please call me on 01827 300500 if you require technical support.
Nigel
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I Tell you wee Robbie had four breezers before passing out 😛
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Peter no worries, like I said it was to put "people in the picture" and I certainly didn’t take offence at all 😀
Harry we do supply into the Republic but carriage costs can be restrictive, as an example, upto 10kgs would cost about £27 to send and about 80p per extra kilo.
If you need specific prices then please just get in touch with our sales office or myself.
Nigel
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quote Peter Mindham:Hi Adam,
I would suggest looking at alternative suppliers for vinyl. When I started I was buying in minimum 5m lengths which is much better than 10!!
There are a number of suppliers affiliated with UKSB who can help I am sure. The cost of membership is worth it just to access these people.
Cheers PeterJust to put everyone in the picture, we do sell vinyl in 5mtr lengths if you order via our sales office, send an email or fax your order through.
The 10mtr lengths are from our online shop and the price per metre is less when purchased online.
Nigel
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The only time you see this error on the Lynx machine has already been mentioned, not enough media.
Perhaps your software is sending the job so the length of the job is actually trying to cut across the width of the of the Lynx.
Feel free to call me or our technical dept. 01827 300500
Nigel
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Well the buzz word for emloyees now does seem to be "flexible hours" so offer a part time position to her.
Reduced wages for her and you keep a good employee.
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Blimey Carrie that was over 24hrs ago, no sorry can’t accept an apology, you will have to buy me a pint at Sign UK now 😛
Mind you I have been called worse……… a lot worse
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Dave we use one here, which you just swipe a card through, and it is linked to a pc so it logs time in and out.
I’ll see if I can get some details for you.
Nigel
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If I was you Brian I would argue that point over carriage charges, afterall if you place your entire order with one office then they should only apply one carriage charge.
Damn suppliers who needs them………lol
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quote Brian Little:yep im with you steve ….what piisses me off a bit is when you get suppliers talking about Scotland as if its the back of beyond ……can get your vinyl ..but only buy chinnock.I think Glasgow was the first city in the UK to have a motorway system that was the envy of europe …that came right thru the middle of the city .To the suppliers watching …yes there is parts of Scotland that are rural ….here is a few i will list for your benifit …….Ullapool (stunning if you ever get there )…Gairloch…about 35 miles up the road ….Durness…they may be rural …but theve all got main roads going to them …so come on suppliers give me a break ….oh and theres no risk of being gored to death by reindeer or haggis 😀 😀 😀
Brian, its not us suppliers (well maybe the ones who deliver themselves) but ourselves rely on couriers and therefore are somewhat tied to what they can or cannot / want or don’t want to do. Going on what Steve said about couriers failing a 10am delivery, consider this, we spend over 100k a year on couriers and suffer exactly the same issues.
So you could say we both suffer the same on this one
Nigel
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Someone e-mail me John’s phone number please 😛
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Perhaps we stay quiet as to let the thread develop and everyone says their bit without us suppliers sticking our oar in 😀
Or it could be that Carrie said my name was Neil 😛
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Impreza if you could give me a call then please do.
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Looks like the dog is in the “ready to receive position” and the kid is just warming his finger up :lol1:
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Mark we supply SignPal Blades for your SignPal Lynx cutter, just call our sales office.
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Jon if you can give me a call I will be more than happy to outline the consumable costs and the ongoing costs etc
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Dave I guess you had the details from ourselves regarding the OrangeJet.
Just to make you aware that we are now authorised to supply the VersaCamm model you also mentioned in your post.
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Anthony you can upgrade your software to version 7.0 which has a usb dongle, it would depend how old your Ultra is, as the main board may require a eprom upgrade.
Please contact me if you need further details.
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Shane if all of your customers are like the first he approached, i.e. level headed and sensible then things would / should be ok.
One thing is for certain, if I was in your shoes right now I would be in this guys face and tackling him head on, but thats just my style and may not be the best way to go.
Good luck with the outcome
Nigel
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Andrew we looked at some samples of marble today for this very type of work, once we have tested it if all goes well then we could well start stocking it.
But the downside is that may be a few weeks away still.
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Blimey Peter a 12w would be good enough how deep was you after.
Andrew absolute black does give better results, any chance of sending a sample to us to see what we can do.
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Andrew are you supplying the samples for the laser supplier to engrave onto?
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Ryan the swatches will go today in the post you should have them tomorrow.
Nigel
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Us poor suppliers who are the natural enemy of all signmakers are not allowed to play with those little buttons, in fact they are not displayed at all, so all temptation is taken away 👿
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Ryan I have no way of knowing your website and I don’t want to break board rules by asking you to post it.
If you visit ours and submit a request form with your details then that will come straight to my e-mail.
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I can send you some swatches Ryan so you can see if any there are any colour matches.
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Derek give our technical dept. a call or myself to help sort your problem out.
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Dammit yes I am John, seven shows and not one sight of any underwear 🙂
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This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.
Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella
worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling
shot.At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.
The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge,
and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible
huckers;they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies. The sugly isters had
tickets to go to the ball, but the cotton runts would not let
Rindercella go.Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared.
Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She
turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with
six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicksThe gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise,
there would be a cucking falamity.At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when
suddenly the clock struck twelve. “Mist all chucking frighty!!!” said
Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping
her slass glipper.The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella’s door and the sugly isters let him in. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg
and let off a fig bart. “Who’s fust jarted??” asked the prandsome hince.
“Blame that fugly ucker over there!!” said Mary Hinge. When the
stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the
sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a
knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge
halls and a hig bard on.He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking
ferfectly.Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince
lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a
follen swanny.As taken from the Two Ronnies
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Here you go Nancy just sing this.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse,
When you’re chewing life’s gristle,
Don’t grumble,
Give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best.
And…Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the light side of life.
[whistle]If life seems jolly rotten,
There’s something you’ve forgotten,
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you’re feeling in the dumps,
Don’t be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle.
That’s the thing.
And…Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the right side of life,
[whistle]For life is quite absurd
And death’s the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin.
Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It’s your last chance, anyhow.
So,…Always look on the bright side of death,
[whistle]
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
[whistle]Life’s a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke it’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show.
Keep ’em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And…Always look on the bright side of life.
Always look on the right side of life.
[whistle]Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]Nigel 😀
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Happy Birthday John, congrats for the day
How old by the way (?)
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Red screwdriver
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That would suggest that your offset is set a little too low on your machine.
Too low and it will undercut, too high and it will overcut.
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Going for the Steelers (no reason) just wish the Cowboys could get their act together.
I will be watching the whole game too
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Jason your math are slightly out, you forgot to add interest onto the interest, i.e. the first years interest would gain interest the second year and so on.
Probably end up with 150 million , just enough to buy the breezer factory and shut it down 😛
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When weeding the vinyl are you finding that there are two layers of material, the top one been a thin milky coloured layer?
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Don’t Google for VMPRO and request a demo, just ask the admin here for my e-mail address and then send me your delivery address so I can post you a VMPRO demo.
Nigel
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VE Panther is not Roland but a GCC machine, known in the UK as the SignPal Jaguar. 😉
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Paul this kind of thing happens when the manufacturer has to put a new roll of backing paper onto the coating line when producing vinyl.
When one roll runs out another is used and so the end of the old roll is joined to the start of the new roll so the vinyl production can carry on un-hindered, hence your join.
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woo woo 😛
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John come and say hello mate, I’ll be there on our stand.
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Andrew have a look at Purex, they do extraction units for printers that do not require a external outlet.
Regards
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Happy New Year to everyone
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It’s the screamer singer that makes me laugh.
Ok Mark I’ll speak to you after the holidays, hope you and your family have a great christmas and new year.
Best Regards
Nigel
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You know thats what Christmas is all about, no matter how old you are you can still laugh and enjoy something like that 🙂
Merry Christmas Leigh & Happy New Year
Oh and Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to the rest of you, before you start 😛
Nigel
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Cheryl if you have not got the windows print driver disk then you will need to ring Grafityp so they can e-mail one over. (Technical Dept. ask for Paul Shrives)
When in Corel you select line thickness to the smallest setting ( I think its hairline / outline) then you need to manually reduce the line thickness to 0.001 mm. This way the cutter will see it as a single line and will cut it out, beware though anything set above 0.001 mm and the cutter will not respond to any job sent.
I’m at home now taking the rest of my holidays but I will look in each day so if you need any further help just post.
Nigel
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Hello & welcome Colin,
You can cut directly from Corel Draw to any SignPal machine, as for the Apprentice software there are three other levels all higher than Apprentice that you can upgrade to.
Any questions on the Puma II or Apprentice just ask.
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That Deb Astle told me to do it Rob, honest 😳
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Rob I had the same problem last night between 6pm and 7.30pm, my router was connecting to the net as usual but you still couldn’t get onto the net.
Guess it must have been Scotland and Tamworth, never realised that we shared the same telephone line 😀
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Carrie, we lads here do the machinery & software sales, so you can talk to us when your in the market for new kit 😉
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55% for me, I’m embarrassed to have such a low score 😀
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Future Corporation who produce VM Pro do a font detective program.
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I would try another program first if you can just to eliminate the cutter from the equation.
Maybe your cutter may have a demo job that is retained in it’s own memory, if it has then you should be able to turn the cutter off then back on and select the demo job from the cutters via it’s own menu and let it cut the demo job out.
This way you will know for sure what is causing the problem, whether software set-up or the cutter itself.
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Look up Jorlink on the web
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Peter wrote: No easy way, the remover from graphityp isnt that good, it leaves the glue behind which can be as difficult to remove as the vinyl.
Of course it leaves the glue behind Peter, it is a vinyl remover only 😀
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Posh Spice’s avatar should do the trick.
God she gives pigs a bad rap :lol1:
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To be honest Hugh & it’s probably why I’m a supplier and not a maker but I think it looks alright……….well apart from the silver which looks grey, now that would be my only concern.
And after the first hour of the party who is gonna notice apart from you 😕
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How about when she says she hasn’t got any money, in reality it means I’ve spent what you gave me and now I want some more. (chat.)
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Funny you should should mention lifetime bachelor Marek, because four months after the wedding it will be my 40th birthday…………..nearly escaped heh. 😛
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Congrats good to hear.
Now just to make Carries day even better, the better half and myself went and chose our rings for next year (having them designed and made) so a little posh.
Then June 2006 we get married.
Nigel
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Jon,
Can you attach the file for us to have look at.
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Jon,
The only reason we do not actively support it is because that’s the deal with the software writers, we do offer advice/support where and when we can.
It does go against the grain for us because it puts us in a awkward position.
Nigel
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😛 Brilliant Shane, like Jayne they all ring true from childhood.
Oh Jayne I still eat my crusts but still waiting for the curls to appear :lol1:
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Very good but you forgot one thing.
The Mother in law Self Destruct Button 😀
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How about Wilsign as a company name, just a play on Wilson 😳
No ok………….right I’m off then.
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Hello Keith welcome to the boards.
Just make sure you get your picture soon or Carrie will come a knockin.
Nigel
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Nice work Rob, helluva lot of work for two to do in one day.
I thought from the thread title it was all about two scousers on a day out shopping 😛
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I should have typed quicker 😳
As above above
Nigel
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Calendered vinyl is extruded and that’s why it pulls back after been stretched (call it memory).
Cast vinyl, the name says it all really………no, well cast vinyl is not extruded but laid down onto the backing sheet so therefore it is not stretched at the time of been made like extruded (calendered) and so is much more forgiving when stretched or heated into recesses.
Can I have a PM button now Rob 😀
Nigel
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Ivan you can use sprocketed vinyl on a friction fed cutter, but what you should do is order 610mm width and have it slit in half by your supplier.
Nigel
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I did view the sight and read the report from top to bottom, only to find by the bottom of the page Paul was back at John O’Groats 🙄
So remember to read from the bottom to the top to get the journey the right way round.
Nigel
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Hello Jules,
Good reading and good pics, I am jealous of Paul been at Loch Ness, always a place I plan to visit but never get round to it.
As for a annoying song to sing how about Bicycle Race by Queen 😛
Nigel
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Happy reading and happy days.
Every Chav should have a copy of that nailed to their forehead
Nigel
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Danny,
Go onto our site and download the S22 profile, this should be better than your current settings.
Nigel
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quote Marekdlux:It’s still nice in Southern California. 😎
Went surfing yesterday afternoon in just some swimming trunks.
-MarekWouldn’t it have been better to have a surfboard too…….sorry Marek but blame it on Brian he started it 😀
Nigel
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Russ,
If you have the photo saved as a file then anyone with a laser engraver should be able reproduce it onto glass.
Nigel
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Come on Simon,
When faced with been either Irish or Scottish there is only one choice.
To become a Englishman 😀
Nigel
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I know that SignPal & Roland run pretty much on the same hpgl and drivers for either machine would generally work.
Try any of the two, also if there generic hpgl drivers in the driver list then these may work.
Nigel
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What’s the language HPGL ??
Nigel
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I’ve got a fair few combs that you can have as freebies 😀
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😀 Thanks Carrie 😀
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Carrie to help Alan out can I give our company name out so at least he can call me.
Nigel