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quote Hugh Potter:

Buy a projector and make an evening of it, more fun than all huddling around some glossy pics! think i might pop round my mums later and bring her and the projector over for tea!

Sorry Hugh
I have to disagree, their are literally Billions of photos, slides etc, molding away in old boxes and suitcase that could be on something like photo-bucket,
As you know! Today Digital photographs can have all of the details in exif data,
Old photographs are only as good as the memory of the people who still remember the faces on the photos,

When that generation dies! so does the faces on the photographs
Then that photograph becomes another casualty of don’t know who this is so bin it,

Years ago photography was such an expensive hobby! if someone had taken the time to photograph something then it must have been important to them,
And if it’s in your possession then it should be important to you!
After all it should give you an idea of your history,

And who your going to finish up looking like when your old and decrepit, I’m already their apparently 🙄

Just because it’s a photograph of someone in your past, doesn’t mean it’s of no interest to anyone else,

It would seem that in today’s society? if you have a decent SLR and just start taking pictures willy-nilly some would be traffic//warden is going to approach you and ask you what your doing,

After all you might have an Exocet missile hidden in your 500mm lens,
Heaven forbid that you might actually just want to take pictures,
My other Tee-shirt reads

I am a Photographer
Not a terrorist

Shit sorry guys, Were the hell did this rant come from.

Oh! I know, some Idiot in George Square asking me what I was doing taking pictures of buildings at, Jaunty angles ( I like that phrase)
OK even longer rant I’m going to stop now 😀

Oh Man! I’ve got to start drinking less Coffee

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http://www.scancafe.com/
give them a try
if you look up photofocus.com i think that Scott gets you a discount I think it’s 20% off

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quote Jill Marie Welsh:

I’ll forgive your wallpaper if you get rid of that sofa.
I think I just had a seizure from looking at it.
😀
(Wall looks really nice)
Love….Jill

Thanks Jill
Now you’ve mentioned the Sofa!
I can’t take my Eyes off of it. 😕

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quote Elena kalispera:

but it’s the common sense that some of these kids are seriously lacking that scares me into thinking’ these people will be running the country when I’m old and decrepit!!

Got News for you M8,
They already Are! 😮

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OK just had a quick look! I think that Adobe bridge is a front runner at the moment, although I don’t like it for it’s security vulnerabilities it maybe the best viewer for the moment

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Thanks Guys i’m still looking into this! So Ill let you know.. thanks Ray:)

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one of these days Ill actually look at a picture befoere I make a comment
How about srtipping the door back, and painting the inner panel the same color as the roof

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quote Neil Davey:

For a start Jill, I don’t think you need quite as big a sign as that to direct people to your front door 😉

As for your door colour I think I’d stick with green as it compliments the brickwork and you could pick out the panels and beading in tints or shades of green,

For a start Neil!
I think you’ll find that’s a real sign! lol Hammered onto her front porch 😀 After all she is a vinyl expert

And i like Martins idea of stripping it back would look nice

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Another way in Flexi 8 is to left click on the text tool (left-hand -sideof the screen)
and select the second text tool

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quote Dave Rowland:

how about applying the vinyl while underwater? anyone tried?

Yeah Me!*hair*

Great wet application. :tongue:
But a Bugger to Squeegee Dry (drown)

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Take them to court mate
they will fold when your lawyer also hits them with loss of earnings as a direct cause of the faulty machine.
Sale of Goods act covers all of this, and if you have the paper work //emails proving that they knew about this, They don’t have a leg to stand on,
In fact i doubt that it will get to court…

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quote Craig Ross:

That is a machine!!

Small Child Moment: “I want one, I want one! I want one now!”

Grown Man Moment: "I want one, I want one! I want one now! lol

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Three Words Oh! My God
I cannot believe some of the Crap you lot are using on your Pc’s

Ok Two options One Free And one Paid.

Free
Microsoft Security Essentials,
As Good as if not better than a lot of the free and paid for stuff out their inc, avg, Mcaffe, Norton,

Paid
Eset Nod32
As never let a virus in, In over ten years, Gets top marks from all of the major company’s

However whatever anitviral stuff you have on your system must be completely removed, that includes checking on their websites for uninstall tools Avg and Norton dont like to be uninstalled and will put up a bit of a fight

However if your pcs at the point it likely that you’ll never get rid of the spyware and crap on your system as it could be embedded to far into your system, it may have to be a reinstall of windows unfortunately.

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quote Paul Humble:

Just to forewarn people that these scams are now coming from Ireland too. A customer of mine almost fell foul the other day when a guy in Ireland sent him a £7000 cheque for a 3 grand car.

Paul! What you playing At?
That was me!

And I really needed that Car!

With the leopard skin seats and the 4 bald Tyre’s.
Dodgy mot, Fake Tax.

The Tyre’s would have really looked Great With my hair style…. 🙄 😮

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Actually I’m just reading through this really quick I take it the main reason is to run MS Office on the Mac
Microsoft do a version of Office for the Mac i know i have a copy some were. And it was a free download when i got it straight from the MS website,
Worth maybe checking the ms knowledge base.
And As far as i can remember their is a free Mac utility for running windows xp 7 on a mac but it needs to be a Intel chip-set IE a newer mac and a fairly powerful one at that, and its also free from the apple website

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Hexis cover nearly all of the mactac colours in fact theirs a better color.range in their S5000 similar to the macfleet and mac 9800 ranger and a bit cheaper ask them. For a sample pack they usually give you all of their swatch
range

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Try hexis.com

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quote Stephen Ingham:

So what would be the route to take to get some kind of training in design??

stephen

A friend of mine once said
If You want to be a good photographer look at 10,000 picture’s,
Really look at then,

Dissect the pictures in your head figure out why it works or why it looks good

Then look at another 10.000.

I think his comments are relative here….

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quote Jillbeans:

…one of mine has Black Chancery on it, a font I hate even worse than Brush Script!
😀

H’mmmm…

Nice one Kev :appl: :appl: :appl: :thumbup2:

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quote Ian Johnston:

get an inverter fitted to your van

Yep! And a spare battery! when you’ve killed the one in the van 😳

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Jill!
You are! A life saver once again!
Ray:)

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This is Sad, Very Sad!
How did we get from a beautiful woman on a board! To how bridges are made,
Shouldn’t it be the other way round.

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quote Harry Cleary:

Have a look at the Clarity tab on the home page Stuart?

Yeah Agree with Harry
On this one! As it’s free for a single user
Once it’s setup it’s really very good!
However it does take a bit of setting up
Another thing to consider is the new Priceitsignguide
which again is quite good although only a guide it gives you a uk average

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quote Nigel Hindley:

id just sell it and say you forgot it was his!!

PS what size is it, whats the condition and will you deliver?

Hey! You!
Hands off! I’m closer! I can collect. :lol1:

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quote Graham.Shand:

I tried to find this font a couple of months back no joy, someone told me it was a one off logo font for DeWalt, i ended up tracing it and vectoring it for some vinyl signs, think I still have it on a hard drive, if that helps

Thanks Graham! Was looking for the font Actually or as near as dam-it.

quote Chris Wool:

just made it up about 90% a bit of fiddling to go from Futura XBlk BT.
small text lines up perfect.

chris

Thanks Chris! I’ll have go at the Futura Xblk Font

quote David Rogers:

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/logo/dewalt

if it’s just the logo…

Thanks David! Thats were I got the pic posted but it was the font i was looking for Re Ray:)

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quote Peter Mindham:

Had a guy a while ago who did not pay. We cut a 610 wide piece of black vinyl about a metre long into .25cm squares. Took him about three hours to pick it off his windshield the morning after it magically appeared there 😎

i sat in the park and enjoyed the show.

Didn’t get paid but had a nice warm feeling for a day or two
🙂

Like it :lol1:

quote Ruairi O’Boyle:

Landlords arent great either!!

We had a few guys working away from home and promised them the £1000 deposit on the house if they finished the job and left the house in the same condition we rented it in.

After paying cleaners and leaving the house better than we originally got it the landlord done a runner with the money.

6 months later they eventually got wind that he owned a bathroom shop, travelled from northern ireland to england=, went straight into the shop and in front of all the customers demanded the money. Got a sob story and decided to take matters into their own hands:

One began removed his trousers and stated that he was going to try out the displays (and was prepared to see it through!) 2 minutes later they were on their way to the pub with £1000.
Good luck.

My kind of people 😳

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Hi Graham
I would think! Off topic.. Would be OK for this
It’s in the General discussion section……

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Mike
Try this mob I got some ink cartridges off of them for £9.98
Every-were else was £25.

http://www.tech8.eu/index.php

Forgot to add fast postage.

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I find this extremely degrading to women,

My One question is!

What! No wet Tee Shirt!

Dam it, Peter your falling down on the Job

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quote David Rogers:

Just a thought.

That MOBO will handle 24Gb of 3 channel RAM…W7 SHOULD utilise all of that too.

I’d be sorely tempted to drop the small high speed drives in favour of a standard (larger) drive for the OS & programs and bump the RAM levels up way beyond 4Gb.

I have (with a LOAD of RAM installed) turned off the swap file / scratch disk …as let’s face it – nobody works with files bigger than a couple of Gb..do they?

Silly fast speed as near zero disk access.

Hi David
Yes! your correct win7 will handle any amount of Ram,
But only in 64bt…
32bt win7 as per vista and late editions of xp will only use the guts of 4Gb regardless of how much Ram you actually have installed.

I’m actually running 32Gb of Ram on Win7 32bt, But here’s the trick I know what I’m doing and know how to bypass certain windows restrictions and utilize The Ram to hold programs in permanent memory,
For instance Adobe ills. Flexisign. and all the other programs I’m using are fully loaded and ready to go, As fast as i can click the mouse button..
As for swap files, Well a partitioned folder in it’s own drive makes things even faster I recently had a file 120Gb Nightmare to deal. But they do happen ,

Win7 64Bt I would think for the next couple of years is out of the question, Unless all of the programs and drivers are already supported,

My Instinct is still to go with
Win7 32Bt would be my suggestion,
But here’s the thing Check with the software company’s whose programs you use and find out if they support Win7 if they do, Go for it
If not weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of going to win7
You know you have XP to fall back on

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What was more worrying was the woman who tried to claim that she was also injured by the sign, when in fact she was no-were near the accident, whats even worse is that the cops didn’t bother to charge her,

In-fact wife’s just back from Blackpool and a taxi driver told her, That the new game a lot of kids are playing now, Is to try to get run over by a bus or car and they can then claim thousands from the drivers insurance, saying it was their faulty, That’s why I now carry a hi-def video camera in the car and cab with me its on record all of the time, That is until I do something wrong then it gets blanked..lol

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quote Jillbeans:

Nah it’s OK.
I was just trying to get Kev to lose the swoosh.
And don’t feel bad, I was told last week on another forum that the guy’s 10 yr old could design better then me, and also again today.
😉

Must be a talented 10 year old!
Were is he! I may have some work for him! 🙄

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Don’t know who put that sign up!
But! I think that they had better just bend over the table now! As it looks like their is going to be a very long line of people waiting to have a go

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Hi Kev.
just wondered what the significance of the white swirl is or do you just like the shape.
What about color blending with say another shade of blue get them to twist into each other
also the shape itself if you were lets say going to put this on a van, the square shape might make it a bit of a challenge,

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Thanks Peter Pm me your number I could do with a chat about this vinyl Thanks Ray:)

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Win7 is the way forward as of last June xp is no longer actively supported by Microsoft

When I say actively supported what I mean is that they will do a fix for anything that puts the system at risk!

but will no longer support it with regards to new products coming out,

Vista was a bad o/s in as such as they released it with far to many problems,
However Win7 is Vista Fixed!
I was one of the lucky ones and was offered win7 in it’s Alpha testing stage and was lucky enough to be given a blue badge as a developer for Microsoft
I was in at the ground floor with win7 and have to say that even in the early stages it was far better than vista or even Xp in it’s hay-day!
so yes! If your programs will run on it without going into compatibility mode then go for win7 Pro ultimate,

This will allow you to tweak the system a good bit if you have to use compatibility mode or customize your computer in any way,

As for your ssd bare in mind that a really good 500gb sata H/D should only cost you £40 at most the ssd will be costing you the guts of £120 £130
And this is at best only the second generation of ssd drives,
I would stick the spare £90 in my pocket and invest it in an Intel chip,
don’t forget that with file swapping your 100GB ssd will only be 98GB and then take away at least one third for various windows activates that and the fact that you should leave that amount of your drive clear anyway., Your left with at best 60GB for your programs not a lot if your using a couple of biggish programs, Don’t forget these programs will take up a fair bit of ssd drive when their running, you could pretty quickly hit some VM problems and windows really doesn’t like them,
If you wanted to upgrade to ssd say this time next year when prices have dropped and their a bit better say 4th 5th generation it shouldn’t be a problem to image your C:\ Drive and install it onto a ssd drive

As for networking your system shouldn’t be a problem with win7
If this is all a bit off putting you could just stick good old WinXP in it
At least you know that it works,
Sorry if this is all the more confusing for you!

But the local PC shop wont have your best interests at heart!
They will try to sell you the best system that will give them the biggest profit.

Sorry should have mentioned that anything I’ve bought PC parts wise I have got from this mob http://www.Aria.co.uk look out for their deal 4 the day

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Hi Dan
If you using some of the older signage products 99% of them were never designed for 64bt
I take it that your thinking of win7 64bt, Bare in mind that a lot of well know products are still not supported properly and many are still in beta testing with their drivers,

Some of the lesser know products will never be supported by win7 as it’s up to the company that make the cutter printer etc to develop the 64bt software… And most don’t bother for an older machine!

I would maybe hold off on the 64bt side as the lack of compatibility out weighs the performance gains,
In-fact check to make sure that whatever software your using is supported,
No good buying a spanking new system! Only to find out that none of your programs will run on it,
Also I have had over the years many many systems amd intel mac
I would always go for the Mac every-time!

However a lot of the programs I use today are not available for the mac.
I would stay well clear of the Amd and always go for Intel

I know someone on here’s going to have a go at me for this, But to be honest if Amd was as good as they make out!
Amd chips would be flying the space shuttle instead of Intel,

Spec looks ok
But I would lose the Amd and go for Intel
The ssd maybe a good investment, but at the moment your paying a premium for it

You may find that a good 500gb sata H/d could leave it standing, However as you don’t list any access times that remains to be seen.

Asus are very good boards although I’m not familiar with this one, os their should be no problems their,
As for your 2nd h/d good idea to have a big drive, But eggs in one basket springs to mind, make sure that you have at the very least one of two other backups, one off site if possible Gott a go running out of time Ray:)

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quote Phill:

This is my “Dug”… his name is Jasper

Is it just me! Or does a certain owner look remarkbly like his Dug. 😮

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Actually I quite like the Thread as the other thread is for pet Dogs,
So a pet thread might be a good Idea as not all of us have Pet Dogs,
We for Instance have
Wait for it 17 pets,

Molly
Elsie
Chloe
Hanna
Lucy All Guinea pig Girls

Snowy the Rabbit

Bob and Tim the Goldfish

Squeek
Digger, The Degus.

Cheeky
Tulip
Faith
Hope… Rat Girls

Flash
Ben
Dec… Rat Boys
As the boys have been fixed they all live with the Rat girls in one big cage quite happily,
Their all potty trained and have never, Apart from when one of them was unwell had an accident outside of their toilet area.

Anyway the 2 pictures are of a couple of past Piggies Jack the Black and white and Honey the Golden Guinea pig.

I hasten to add that their all in-house Animals,
Yes! I know I have a Zoo!
And! No their is not a bit of smell off of any of then!

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quote Jillbeans:

I hate Abaddon even more than I hate Brush Script.
I also hate Arial, Balloon Bold, Meta, Comic Sans, Papyrus, Curlz, Banco, Serpentine, and that one blackletter font I can never remember the name of.
Not that I’m opinionated or anything.
Love…Jill

Boy!
Jill! you certainly have some issues,
Although! I must say I do have a slight hatred for (:) Balloon Bold (hot)

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The only thing I can suggest is to to download the uksb toolbar and look in the uk suppliers tab! Then start phoning 🙄

However!
I think that Vinyl Corp do it in 1m
But their is a minimum order, usually 10m
I’m a bit stumped as to why you would only need your vinyl in 1m pieces!

I usually waste that amount of material trying to get a straight line, oR cutting off the bad bits….

😉

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quote Hugh Potter:

quote Phill:

More importantly – how did you get the name “Crazy plums” Hugh :lol1:

the nick name was actually just ‘plums’, stemmed from being blessed with three of em 😮

Show Off! :lol1:

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quote Barbara Eden:

I do have a tip for a cheap, but effective alternative though, if you haven’t used a pen/tablet before.
Get a Trackman/ball mouse – honestly, it’ll give you a similar response.

Hope it helps………..
Barbara

Yep! have to agree Been using a Logitech trackball for about 7 years now and wouldn’t be without it
Far better than any mouse

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Actually I was looking at these As I use a tablet,

But to be honest! For me anyway it would be a very expensive add-on that i don’t really need that much
What I finished up doing was to buy a 19" LCD touchscreen off flea-bay,
I’m making up a little Jig for it so it will drop down into my workbench and then tilt at the correct angle for me when I want to use it,

At the moment Ive tried it free standing and for me it works very well,
Although it certainly doesn’t have the features of the Wacom used with win7 and its touchscreen capability’s its as near as dam-it,
Cost just a tad under £175 So £800 less than the wacom better in my pocket than theirs Ray:)

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Hi PJ
A new system could cost you £500 plus,, 4Gb of ram should only cost you £60

I’m running an older system than that with Roland’s Versaworks and cut choice and Flexisign8 with No problems, However i do have a high end Graphics card and 4 Gbs of DDR memory. And 3 1Tb h/ds
Sounds like your system could maybe just do with an upgrade,
As memory is so cheap now I would maybe consider trying a memory upgrade first, Depending what your operating system is IE xp 2 GB should do it,
if your running vista or win7 32bt Then you could try 4GB although Vista and Win7 wont use the 4GB it should use about 3 and a bit,

Win7 64bt you can load up with as much ram as you like, But is gets a bit redundant after 4 GB, Unless you know how to set it up properly.
Make sure that if you do upgrade that the ram matches,

Here’s the trick Have nothing!
I mean nothing else on your system,

Have only your operating system and your vinyl/ print software,

In-fact as I run windows I go into win programs and pretty much uninstall anything that i don’t need including the games and a lot of redundant windows add-ons crap Ray:)

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Hi Neil
You could do with mentioning, if its for cut vinyl or a picture file your looking for

Ray:)
Keep smiling!
It’s the only muscle in your body
That doesn’t involve Work!

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quote Nicola McIntosh:

:lol1: :lol1: yeh but your being sneeky…your avatar is facing to the right…they wouldnt be able to identify you in the flesh :lol1: :lol1:

NO! Nicola you’ve got it all wrong
that’s not me! 🙄

Don’t you see the wording below it! No profile Picture!

I am so glad somebody finally noticed my profile avatar,

It’s only been up two weeks!
Thought I was being Clever with that picture! :lol1:
Maybe Not! 😳

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quote Nicola McIntosh:

you always have the option to buy it on tick :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

seriously they are very nice….i want one 😀

I had one of those once! Hell of a job to get rid of it 😛

But I have just looked at a 15" and 19" touchscreens that claim that they can be laid flat or at an angle and both have 3 year warranty’s

Guess which road I maybe going down
Man! I used to like this Forum :banghead:

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quote Harry Cleary:

quote RayRosher:

Pity I would have to sell my first born to afford them 🙄

How much? Can they weed? 😀

Useless at it 👿

But they can empty your pockets and Drain the car of a full tank of fuel overnight, (it take me 2 week) Still want em! :lol1:

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quote Nicola McIntosh:

was looking at these from recommendation from a friend…look good so does the price 😀

http://www.drawittablet.com/cintiq

Now those are nice!
Pity I would have to sell my first born to afford them 🙄

Or I could spend £199 and buy a 19"touch screen and lay it flat,

Well! it’s as near as dam-it 🙄

In-fact thats given me an Idea 😕

Aww! Man i only wanted to spend £50 :lol1:

Siht! Thanks Nicola 😉

Anybody got a bracket that let’s me lay a 19" LCD at an angle 😳

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quote Nicola McIntosh:

i wouldnt even bother with that rubbish….its a load of junk 🙄 :lol1:

Yeah! :cheer:
But it’s nice to know that theirs a group of people in a far distant country that know who I am?:love::wave3: :wave3:
Hang on a mo!

H’mmmm…….. :headbang2:

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quote Mike Rawlings:

Hello.
My name is Mr XXXX XXXXX and i would like to make some inquiries on some
banners.I need a 6ft x 3ft Banner – Two colour Printed banner with UV
solvent inks on 510gsm pvc banner material, then hemmed and eyleted at 500mm
spaces.
(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) ( RED )
(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX). ( BLACK )
Above is what i need and i want to you to get back to me with the cost of
this banner which would have grommets and also include tax since i don’t
have a tax exempt now. I wouldn’t need any artwork. kindly advise on if
you accept Credit Card as a form of payment for such order. Kindly advise
and get back to me.

Cheers.
XXXXXXXX

0703 XXXXXXXX
********************************************

I got this one!
Glad to say I binned it as it rang alarm bells straight way.
Sounded to much like the Nigerian chap who wanted to give me £10 million for help him and his poor dead brothers family launder some money from his Country…. (:)

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Maybe consider getting the Mark Rugen tutorial DVD As i found that an Invaluable aid to getting to know flexi.

And a bit more information would help
IE computer setup, cutter printer setup,
Do you have a print and cut machine or are you using more than one machine surprised SAI didn’t throw in a DVD or a tutorial of some sort.however you need to make sure that you have your cut print machine recognized by both your operating system and flexi
in flexi you need to go to file
then Rip & Print.
this should then bring up a dialog box asking what cutter printer your using select you machine,
you should then have a Rip & Print box open,
go to advanced once you have setup your output settings etc you will see your contour button about half way down the page next to the Driver options tab, if this is grayed out then your not setup properly
Sorry ran out of time have to go
Re Ray:)

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quote Shane Drew:

Phil, you will be hard pressed to get a really bright orange on a CMYK or CMYKlclm. I have a client that used oracal bright orange for years, and then he wanted me to supply printed signs and get as close as I could. He wasn’t satisfied with anything, neither was I, because the orange always had a muddy or dull appearance.

That is one of the reasons I changed to CMYKOG. That, and my other big client uses a bright green colour.

Been there, done that, got the shirt 🙁

Just wondered the advantages and disadvantages of using CMYKOG over CMYKLCLM as my Roland uses these colors, So whats the advantage of using OG instead of LCLM

This for me! Is actually turning into a very interesting thread
Re Ray:)

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quote Hugh Potter:

looks really good Jill,

only crit, i think that the ‘NO PARKING’ might’ve looked nicer in brush scr….

ok, sorry! 😳

😀
Hugh

Yeah me too! 😉 :lol1:
Ray:)

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Thanks Guys.

Thanks John, I have a much better Idea on what I’m doing now…

Jill thanks
As a guide line I was way off price wise,
Charging him him a lot less than as been quoted up to now,
What i didn’t consider properly was the amount of vinyl and time to weed As I don’t usually stock Mac-Tac 8300. which is what i planned on using.
But have some, That I got thrown in when I stocked up my 9800pro vinyl
I usually use Mac-Tac 9800pro, But it seemed a bit like overkill as the item wont last much over a year anyway.

But point taken Jill.
By the way you sure grew up quick,
Last time I looked you were a 18 months old, On your profile Pic :lol1:

PS. Thanks to the Pm’s that confirmed I was way off price.

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Hi Guys
Now this post is actually very Interesting,
As I’m now starting to get into Digital printing.
I have never considered color blending, Which I would guess this is what this is,
Maybe a certain published Aurthur (CoughPhil)Who likes to get pictures taken of him in the bath and spread all over the Net And in some well Dodgy Forums Should maybe consider a Signage Digital print book with this information in it,
It would also be help-full to someone like myself, If a thread was started in a private section of the forum were we could check the settings for a certain color,
Now I know that this isn’t an exact science, But a flavor or near enough to the color would help!
Nice one :thanks2:

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Sorry Rob Wasn’t sure were to put this,
Hi Richard
Yes I’m looking for the actual logos Complete Decals kits if possible,
Not the outlines,
Ive actually seen a few on Fleabay Just wondered if their was a disc Available,

I actually have the Vehicle outlines from Impact ver31 Ill have a look in that…Re Ray:)

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Excellent!
But I will never look at a Smart car the same way again 🙄

Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please!
Tell me you Kept your Trousers on Shudder… (oogle)

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Hi Matt
Party poop-er time
Get a disclaimer for the paint work and damage to, In-case the job goes Boobies up (Politically correct)
Hell! I don’t earn enough in a year to pay for a respray for one of those things.
Best of Luck M8

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quote Jillbeans:

But I remember being p’d off, even offended when I saw Von Dutch brand.
As if any of the people buying it knew who he was.
And as if he would approve of the commercialism.
😕

Yes Kenneth Howard may well be spinning in his grave.

I’m sure i saw a ripoff of his Winged Eyeball on an Album cover once….

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quote Jason Bagladi:

Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! 😀

Yeah!
But Which Version 😛 *hair*

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Not sure about the Ink side of things,
but the intermittent problem could be anything from a faulty ribbon cable to your computer not spooling the file properly,
Try to eliminate the problem by trying it on another computer system for a few days to see if it could be your pc,
if your still having problems then you at least know it’s the printer side,
Sorry not much help,Ray:)

[RayRosher]

Impact Vehicle Library version 31 it’s on page 20 Fiat0006

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If you want it today, Then be prepared to PAY.

When your work speaks for itself, Don’t interrupt. 🙄

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quote Chris Wool:

did you go to this site.

chris

http://dg4.roland.co.jp/en/cutting.html#cx34500

Thanks Chris, Think I got sorted with the drivers,
But haven’t had time to check it out yet :thumbup2:

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quote Phill:

What’s the corniest Tag line you can think of for a sign making business?

e.g not just minor irritants such as “Signs of the times” No, I mean something toe curlingly, excruciatingly corny 😕

(Apologies in advance to anyone who uses the example above 😳 )

"Signs of the times"
😳 I own the .com//co.UK for that name 😳
OK it was a moment of total Madness 😳
Yes I’m an Idiot 🙄

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quote Earl Smith:

Thanks for your thoughts.
I have started legal proceedings already. I just annoys me that he and his firm can carry on working with my money. So why not annoy him too.
The guy is a rep for a large nation wide firm who owe the money, they should be getting the forms from the court soon. Lets see what happens. I am in a foreign land with different laws.
Earl

Make sure you hit his firm for all court and out of court expenses.

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quote Mike Grant:

Pan European….hmmmm been looking at those a lot lately! 😉

Phil, you look so different with your glasses off!

Yep! lovely bike! Mine as over a hundred k on it and still going strong.
The only real issue with this bike is the exhaust ie price of, And the swing arm which tends to go,

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OK! For me the short end of a very long story was that a chap we shall call him that for the sake of me getting banned of off this group,

Owed me a few hundred £££ quite a few actually several of them to be honest,
Anyways after a few weeks of calling and getting nowhere my calls started to go blank on his number,

So I had two choices 1. forget about it,(Yeah Right) or 2 get my money by any means necessary,
Option 2 is this!

Find out as much about the guy as you possibly can you may have to become a detective, I did.

Check out, Past address’s
Where his home address is,
His parents and in-laws address if he as any,

Anywhere you think that you can find an address for him,bank account local bank details the lot,
Once you enough information on him send him a nice registered Post letter also email and text and mms message telling him that all of the address’s you have on record for him,

And list them on the letter.

Can expect a visit from the local debt collectors or bailiffs with regards to the outstanding debt,

And that he as 48 hours from the date of the letter to make payment in full in cash, money order IE postal orders or paypal. Believe me the last thing he wants is his dear old Mum getting the bailiffs around her door or the In-laws know that he owes money,The "Ahem" collectors are allowed to mention that the call is with regards to an unpaid debt. and that they may call several times to make sure he’s home..

This as worked every time for me and I have had to do it 4 times up til now,
It as never ever got to the part of anyone knocking on someones door…

Yeah I know I’m a bad boy 👿

quote Liam Pattison:

Once i advertised my mate as a ladyboy escort on the internet just to wind him up. You could try that, it might not get you your money back but he will probably get a flood of strange callers. :lol1:

Liam

Think I called Him once 😳

[RayRosher]

Well!
Everyone seems to be throwing their bikes in the pot, So here’s mine.

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Thanks Rob 😕

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Nope! I have ver 31 and it’s not in that!
Contact Impact they will email it to you if they have it re Ray:)

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Ok dump explorer and get him onto Firefox it’s a lot safer Just install Firefox and it will ask you if you want to import your bookmarks and settings, just click yes and your done, Far better and safer than explorer

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quote Phill:

Maybe we should start a new thread called “how many arseholes have lettered foamex without removing the protective film” :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

…I’ve taken this too far haven’t I? :worry:

Can i apply for the Job please 😳

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quote Harry Cleary:

quote Brian Little:

like my first experience of foamx when i didnt relise there wasa protective film on it before i lettered it( 😀 😀

😳 😳

😳 😳 😳 Ok! Ok! I was young and Stupid 😳 😳 😳

[RayRosher]

David if you miss John then send to me and I will do them for you what version of ai do you want

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I agree that the peer to peer sharing thing is an excellent Idea.

However
Henry ford! Once said, You can have any color you want! As long as it is Black,
Yeah! Give them a couple of choices,
But the more choice, The longer it takes.

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quote Martin:

It shouldn’t be accessible to the public really because it will be behind the barrier you have put up to keep them out :lol1:

Yeah! I agree with you Martin! lol Stupid H&S
Even that doesn’t cover you if some-one walks beyond the barrier, Then injures themselves you are liable if their was no notice on the item to say dangerous items or caution risk of injury.

I was going to put on the box.
Danger Human Body Parts,

But some Sicko would steal it, To sell the parts on Flea-bay

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What ever you need to do to keep going!
I say go for it

Ahem!
Their is a well known signage person on this group!
Who wrote a book, who Quotes The Dream by Mark Baker,
I think that covers every-ones feelings on this group
And what your willing to do to keep the Dream!

Nice one Phill.

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quote Nicholas.Gormley:

I thought that as well Glenn. Hows this?? Whats the best colours to use with red?? Customer asked for the numbers on the doors.

I think that the white! Looks a lot cleaner.
Not sure about the phone numbers,
if that van was going past me, I would notice the Name,

By the time I had a chance to look for the number,
The van would be long gone in the distance,

Perhaps move the phone numbers onto the panel of the van,
Forward and below the garage services part,
That way it would all flow into itself,
Then do something else with the doors maybe the logo thing.
As for the black, could you maybe try another color It’s just to dark on the Red, And hard to read,
Here’s the thing, If people in general can’t read a sign in 5 seconds, They lose interest,
Most people have the same attention span as a Goldfish 🙄 That of course excludes all of the Good people on this Fine Forum. :yikes:

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quote Gareth Hankinson:

Not got their number mate, I might have a jaguar signpal cutter for you will let you know as soon as I do! Will post a pic when I can!

Sorry bit late with this reply
Thanks Gareth Let us know!

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quote Peter Dee:

You’ll be amazed how many times you use this for producing artwork visuals.

Actually your spot on Peter! As that was one of the first things that ran through my head after I installed it.
Nice one Thanks Ray:)

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quote Peter Dee:

Ray, you mentioned “My background is mainly IT” but then you suggested this: “just a thought can I copy the windows fonts folder and put it in flexi and if so where …”

You sure it wasn’t you fiddling with it….??

Hi Peter
Yes! In hindsight that sounds a bit contradictory,
The problem is
1. I never fiddle with things ( I always get caught)
If I break it,
I would have the good grace to admit that i fucked-up! And ask for help.

2. I worked in house on the most basic of vinyl jobs and have never had to use flexi to it’s potential, So have never really looked at the program or had to install anything as the system was already setup for us,
I bought the computer as is, when the company decided to out-source it’s vinyl signage,
My thoughts where that flexi had it’s own fonts engine and it did everything in the program itself,

Going into the flexi directory their are several places to put font’s, my question as I’m not familiar with how flexi makes use of the fonts or what folder to put them in,
What I didn’t want to do was cause more problems by installing into the wrong directory, I think that Where do I put the fonts was a relevant question.
As for my it background, Well it was assembly language And as that programming is not used as much as C+ I pretty much gave it up….

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B

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quote Peter Normington:

well you couldn’t make it up could you?

Peter

Yeah! well if you do, I want the Film Rights to It 🙄

[RayRosher]

Hi all
An update,
Thought i would redo my work area as I had to pretty much demolish the computer area,after the Pratt incident, Decided to shift my DVD, DVD player and books, And move the computer to a better position.
I have a closed locked cabinet for my DVDs, Reference books, and old contacts folders etc.
Anyway opened up a couple of cases only to find that some of the DVDs are missing.
As these are work related, Their not much good to anyone unless your in the trade,
Knew i hadn’t misplaced them as I’m a bit Anal with regards to CD and DVDs and always put them back in their case,
after looking all over the cabinet couldn’t’ find then anywhere, Then the Penny dropped,
Heid the Ba, that’s my new name for him.
Had helped himself to some of my DVDs and software, now normally this wouldn’t be a problem as I don’t mind loaning thing out. as long as I get them back,
But what was more worrying was the fact that a couple of my contacts and customer books where missing, ie names quotes address’s and job’s done, possible return business to Chase up. You know The good will side of a business,
Anyway had no choice but to contact Heid the Ba.
So as I was going past his place thought I would call in and confront Sorry see him,
Turns out he’s not their
His Jenny was home,
So I had a chat with her,
Judging from the way we chatted I quickly worked out that she knew nothing about what happened,
Doesn’t supp-rise me as she would have went Ape-shit,
Anyway asked her if, Heid the Ba, ( i didn’t use that name in front of her) Had any tools of mine in the shed
As I needed to do a job and thought that he maybe had some laying in the shed.
As she never goes in their, She told me to help myself,
to say I found one or two things of mine is an understatement.
Tools almost an entire box full of squeegee’s rollers and and sundries
A hard rive i didn’t know was missing full of contacts and quotes
My contacts books 2 of them,
All of my DVDs,
Plus what was more worrying was a folder of printed out plotters and vinyl equipment from flea-bay and other such like websites,
Looks like he was getting ready to set himself up in the Signage business,

Now that doesn’t bother me, After all competition is the spice of life,
It makes you put your best effort into a job,
what gets me is the fact that he was going to try to poach all of my customers, I earned these peoples business,
Anyway removed my property including the flea-bay stuff. Let him search for that lot again,
Jenny asked me if I had got what I was looking for, Told her I had and that when he gets back to let him know and Rosie wants to have a chat, (He’s scared of her) So am i sometimes,lol.

At home! I discovered he had been scanning the contacts books and putting them on the hard-drive, He also had copies of all of the DVDs on the drive, I think that what he had been doing was taking stuff home that I wouldn’t miss and copying them onto the hard-drive,

Told Rosie!
what i found, She’s going to see him? The funeral is next week,

Contacted all of my customers via E-mail and told them that an ex employ had taken my contacts book,not to worry as it was only business name and telephone number which is true. And to let me know if anyone from a signage company, Contacted them with regards to a job they should refer them back to me,

Family Huh!

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quote Darren Lawlor:

Now having said all that, I have a very funny feeling that no sooner than I submit this post to the forum……………My little GX24 is going to burst into flames and I will have to retract everything I have just said!!

Darren.

Funny! Thought that it was only me, That things like that happened to. :headbang2:

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quote John Cooper:

Morning Jason

You might find a couple of searches on Youtube very useful for some of your research. E.g. you can watch a Graphtec CE5000 in action using registration marks etc etc.

John

Argee with John on this one, Youtube is fantastic for giving someone a flavour of how a sign cutter works.
But not all of the problems are addressed with regards to setting a cutter up, and any other related problems.
If your just starting out it’s not just the cutter, it’s also the software, And other bits and bobs, and applying the finished producet. Decent software can cost anything from £300 to £3000 depending on what it is you want to do, The bits n bobs, Well my kit box which is fairly basic still stand me £300, And that’s just for doing basic vinyl,

One heads up and I’m not having a go, just giving you a heads up, Pirate software is pretty much, a no no on this site,

Whatever cutter or software you get try to get the seller to throw in a tutorial dvd for the software and cutter you get, Phill Fenton does a fantastic book on setting up a signage business, Well worth the oulay.

This is a fantastic forum and group of Guys N Gals. they will literally bend over backwards to help,
But do your research before asking any questions as it shows a sign of respect to the poeple on here that are willing to help and give up their time to reply to a thread,

I know that when I started out, The help i got from these guys was invaluable,

Your certainly heading in the right direction with the cutters, But do you need a machine as big as that I have 3 machines an old houston 24" whcih still works a Roland 40" and a Crappy chinesse cutter 28" which i’m trying to break before the G/tee runs out. And it wont die. These Crap chinesse Cutters and flea-bay are going to ruin this business.
Anyway good luck with what your doing, And hope to see you at one of the Trade shows…..

[RayRosher]

quote Jillbeans:

Maybe someday he will wire an 8-track player into a big mean guy’s BMW.
Love….Jill

Yeah! He did. Mine;)

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quote Phill:

Try initiating a thorough boot up..

..that should stop him fiddling with your PC again 😕

Thanks Phill, Thorough boot up. Where him or the Pc…

All sorted, Well when I say all sorted!
reinstalled from last weeks system image

As you can tell from the rant sorry post
I had pretty much stopped anyone from messing about with the system,
After all disabling The DVD in bios then UN-plugging both the Sata cable and power cables from the drive, I would have thought made it pretty useless,
Unless you have a Pratt of a cousin-in-law. mind you he’s stayed well out of the way since this happened,
Honestly what kind of a Pratt, Takes a casing off, puts leads back onto a drive they know nothing about, Just to play a movie that they can’t watch anyway
I knew he’d messed about with it because he had taken out the flexi dongle and put his own usb into the usb slot, luckily he had left the flexi dongle on the work-top
This guy thinks he knows about pc’s and i.t
My background is mainly IT, so i have a better understanding , However he bought a brand new pc about 18 months ago, from a local shop he messed about with it,
it’s never worked properly and is always crashing,
This is not a pc problem it’s him
The guy in the shop he bought it from as told him not to come back or he will charge him to look at it again
I had his pc in my workshop for 2 weeks while he was on holiday, reinstalled and fixed a couple of things he’d messed about with,
Had it running flat out for 10 days not an issue. Anywhere,
He came back off holiday, 3 days later it was back at the shop. he’d messed with it again,
He thinks because he can type: msconfig he knows what he’s doing,

Over the past couple of months he’s been far more trouble than he’s worth And for me that’s sayinmg something. (:)
Another long rant (hot)
And before anyone asks why did i bother with him 2 things, Family, he was handy for holding the vinyl on any biggish jobs. I’m now just going to leave the backing on and cut it back as i need to…

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quote matty goodwin:

Have you tried a system restore? Just a thought.

Oh and an anti-cousin password on the Pc!!

first thing I did was the restore, but sometimes it doesn’t get it right.
Their was a password on it (hot)
She told him it! (chat.)

quote Harry Cleary:

😀 😀 😀 now that’s what I call a decent rant!
Maybe try deleting the cousin? Could be arranged, for a small consideration 😀

How Much for both! 👿

Ill try the windows folder Jon .thanks Guy’s
just a thought can I copy the windows fonts folder and put it in flexi and if so where …

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quote Brian Little:

anything considered. Need it for a cattle float tommorow if poss

regards brian

Had me worried for a minute their m8.
Thought I was on the wrong Site.

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quote Phill:

People buy signs to benefit their business.

Can you help me list all of the actions and results that signs produce?

I see the main benefits as follows:-

1/ Advertising
2/ To provide instructions
3/ To supply health & safety information
4/ To provide decoration

Can you think of any other benefits that buying signs bring to your customers?

You forgot
5/ I own it! I want my name on it.

[RayRosher]

Thanks Guys
finished up using mwsnap for quickness great little util and free….

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quote Martin Oxenham:

We use nothing but clear. The stuff from Europoint has a rough texture and really aids dry application.

what clear do you use martin.

Dam i need to get a profile picture back up 😉

[RayRosher]

Nice piece of kit!
Wish I could afford it, Need to go to a bigger cutter, maybe a tiny lottery win tomorrow will help 😀

[RayRosher]

quote John Dorling:

I haven’t found a good clear app tape yet. If you do a lot of layering you might be better off making a light box?

John

Already got one John,
but it’s a pig to work on!
Of course that could be because I’m 6’3" and the light-box is set at 3’3".
Maybe worth chopping myself off at the knee’s to compensate :headbang2:

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quote John Wilson:

So who’s buying one?? 😎

http://live.gdgt.com/2010/01/27/live-apple-come-see-our-latest-creation-tablet-event-coverage/#11-22-48-am

Me!
Pre-ordered,
I have a Friend at apple,,
Mine is waiting for me the day it’s released.

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quote Chris Wool:

John and Ray your interest has been registered as soon as i know more i will let you know.

the printer is on a promise at the moment (wish i was 😉 ) so will have to see what happens.

chris

I take it the promise paid off!