[RayRosher]

quote Gareth Hankinson:

I’m getting it delivered to reading next week for him by Derek Heron of all people haha.

Ray did you get my text mate i sent it twice and if your at the signs show i will buy you a beer no probs.

Gareth

Yeah! Thanks Gareth,
Got the number, text-ed you back but you obviously didn’t get my reply,
I know theirs another place out past Durham that does jaguar systems dont suppose you have their number thanks Ray:)

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Thanks Guys worked out a couple of ways to do it,
Steve wins to-days prize, as that’s the way i finished up doing it
Thanks Ray:)

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Thought I might add my own bit to this,
As i was the winner of the flea-bay auction
i had already spoken to Gareth about this cutter, Without knowing that it was the same one that was on flea-bay,(snipping software) been looking at it all week,
Anyway long story short, Gareth was getting more money else where,
Because Gareth was a uksign-boards member i offered to stand-down after winning the auction as he had been made a far better offer. by someone else,
i expected it to go for the £1400 and didn’t bid that high, Although I wasn’t that far away.
I actually was struggling to pay for this at the £1400 as I explained to Gareth
However in the few hours between our phone call and the auctions end,
I called in a couple of oldish debts, Pissed off one customer, And lost another, by telling them i needed them to pay me asap,
Anyway had a £1000 as the auction ended, Gareth contacted me to say that he had a buyer at the correct money, And would i be willing to let it go,
I agreed as Gareth is a uksign-boards member and a fairly decent chap,
However if he had been Joe blogs selling on eBay,
That would have been a different story,
And i would have been at his door today with the money and a couple of Hairy bikers, (The none cooking kind), Looking for my cutter,
I’m gutted at not getting the cutter,
But if my standing back helps out another sign-boards member, Then so be it.
However Gareth you now owe me a drink, :drink4: And a nice word in certain person’s ears, Also the name of that supplier at your end of the country (you forgot to send it last night) Cheers Ray:)

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quote Gill Harrison:

Hi there………you are right Diamond Grade is a pain to cut and impossible on a standard plotter. If you do need to trim any pieces then turn the diamond grade over and cut from the back. The edge sealing is done ultra sonically.
I did tests with the pens and I don’t rate them. To test we applied the DG to a piece of alli then sealed with the pens and once dry applied a dye to the edges, unfortunately the dye leaked into an unacceptable amount of the cells.
The 3M edge sealing fluid is the correct way to go but yes I’ve known of nail varnish being used and I also like the suggestion of using a strip of clear overlaminate. I find myself looking at the reflective on ambulances etc and a badly sealed product looks shocking.

Gill

Very nice Informative reply, Pretty lady,
However it doesn’t get Poor John out of Trouble.

John! I have a Revolver (:)I had to use on myself!
On another thread!
if you want to borrow it and the do the Honorable thing :hung:

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Hi not sure if it’s the same problem I was having but i finished up making my own registration marks, And made sure that they where the same color as the media i was cutting,
This solved the problem for me don’t know if it helps Ray:)

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Hope you have a good flat bed cutter, If your going to cut the diamond grade vinyl it’s a bit of a bitch to cut,
i think! But not sure, That the best way to seal diamond Grade is using a thermal sealer,
Although Ive never used Diamond Grade, The price scares me (oogle)

sorry bit of a useless reply as it doesn’t help you out.
Ray:)

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quote John Wilson:

If you’ve still got this in the next month I’ll take it, no space or cash at the moment but on the look out for a 44″ printer for indoor prints

Cheers

Ah!
Seeing as John as already asked about this Ill stand aside for the moment,

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quote Jillbeans:

I hope someone barfs in his bouncy castle.
(hot)

*rofl*
JillBeans I :love: You, :vomit: *rofl*

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quote Dave n Rob Lowery:

quote Jillbeans:

Bring him over here, I will slap him like a girl then make him wear a frilled party dress and jump in a bouncy castle wearing shoes, glasses, jewellery but no undercrackers.
😉

Don’t you just love this girl 😀 :love:

Yeah.
it’s the Undercrackers bit that got me :yikes:

Mind you, I do hear that some guys will pay a lot of money for that kind of treatment. (oogle) (<(

[RayRosher]

Hi All
I have to admit
I have had more fun with the replies on this thread,
Than with the Twonk that wanted this sign made up,
Anyway quick recap on the sign,
The chap in question, after having a chat with his wife, Spent 5 hours with MS-publisher(shudder) And thought that the sign he made was fantastic,
Just what he wanted Because it was his own work, And perfect in his minds eye. (Glad my eye’s not that bad)
He spent another hour converting it to jpg and 2 hours and 30 sheets of A4 Kodak high quality photo-paper, Printing it out, Not getting it quite right each time.
By this time his Lexmark printer had ran out of ink,
After replacing the ink £39 for 2 cartridges
He still couldn’t figure out why the print quality was so bad,
After all (ahem) it looked great on the screen(looks are very subjective)
Anyway after another Ten sheets of paper,
He decided to look at the printer options and moved the print quality from Draft to what it said on the photpaper box, Best quality archieve photo paper ,
At this point after hitting print, He decided to go and make a coffee
Guess what!
He printed another Ten pictures at best quality (while he was having coffee) and cost himself another Load of high quality Kodak paper
And about 80% of his new cartridge ink,
So after all this he proudly marches down to, Her-in-doors, And shows off his as yet unmade sign, At which point, She pointed out the spelling mistakes, Crap color’s etc,
At this point, I’m on the floor peeing myself, His wife is in hysterics, As it finally hit home, What a Prat he is,
Of course he never told me any of this,
When he approached me about doing the sign he made a slight comment about someone doing it for him,
My first Question to him, Was did anther sign company do this, As he handed over the photo, at this point i hadn’t actually looked at the picture,
If he had said yes then i was instantly going to knock back the work, (pisses me off no end when people do stuff like that)

Anyway after actually looking at it for about 3 seconds I realized that either his 5 year old had done it or he had done it himself,
In either case I wasn’t going to lose a customer by making a comment like, What A/H did this.
So after going on this forum for advice, and offering the guy 2 other choices and showing him the one Jllbeans did, He was still adamant that he wanted his own done,
At this point I had to remind myself of 2 things
1. The customer is always Right (even when he’s wrong)
2. This guy! Was leading to some bigger Job’s, The guys, Brother in law wanted some vans done,
Turns out what the guy was angling for was a couple of free signs, i agreed to this with two proviso’s,
1.He never ever told anyone I did the signs for him. And he provided the foamx, i sent him to someone who i know dosent like to sell foamx over the counter and charges a handling charge, ie hand over the counter an extra £20, The guy commented that he didn’t realize that the materials where so expensive…lol.
2 I actually got the work from his bro in law,

well I am happy to say, I did get the work and he got his signs,
After I did the first van for his in law, I Didn’t want his in law to see the job I did for him. So did one of his vans first.
What springs to mind now is the term,
Never again

Just been doing a rough calculation and the materials he used to print this off
at least £50 for Ink
i know the paper he used archive quality £45 box of 50 sheets, If you get the 40% Discount He used a full box?
Coffee £30 this ones for me.
Printer wear and Tear £25
His time £5

makes me shake my head
or
Drink more coffee…….

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quote Jillbeans:

You want me to punch him in the face?
:lol1:

Yes Please! A punch in the face would be nice.
Can I you-tube it

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quote Phill:

I think John meant to say anally retentive 😕

Ray – I bet you wish you’d never asked the question now :lol1: :lol1:

Yeah! Would somebody like to loan me a Revolver, so I can do the honourable thing.

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quote Jillbeans:

:lol1:
Harry it’s not just you.
I am having to duct tape my fingers to keep from doing a mock up.

Please Unduct tape your fingers.
This is exactly as the guy wants it.
As I have stated I had a nice Jungle theme for him
But he thinks! His is better,
Including the spelling and grammer mistakes
Somebody please show him the error of his ways.
As I can’t seem to get through to him
Sometimes the customer is not always right
And thanks for the chuckle!
Some of the comments are excellent:)

Jill your sign which I have just noticed is lovely. My customer should love this But he’s Pratt!
Sorry for missing it the first time,
I didn’t realize that their where 2 pages of comments, as I’m replying fro
my iPhone, which is pretty crap for web browsing

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quote Chris Windebank:

what this one?
http://www.dafont.com/hondafont.font

Do you know their are days!.
When! As Thick as. And 2 Planks Spring to mind!,
Duh! Me, looks like I’ve had a Homer Simpson day.

Thanks Chris,
The best thing is that I have that site book-marked
Re Ray:)

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quote Chris Windebank:

what this one?
http://www.dafont.com/hondafont.font

Do you know their are days!.
When! As Thick as. And 2 Planks Spring to mind!,
Duh! Me, looks like I’ve had a Homer Simpson day.

Thanks Chris,
The best thing is that I have that site book-marked
Re Ray:)

[RayRosher]

Hi sorry Karl Yeah the typeface..
I was hoping to get the tt font from somewhere,
It’s actually for my own project. but it may come in handy as I’m joining the pan-clan club. And maybe help out other members of the club
Re Ray:)

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quote Andy Blackett:

Hi Ray,

The cutter bar is called an image edge, we’ve got one – its ok but not a patch on our javelin. The joints can step out a little and will cause sticking points as you travel up the bar. Well worth the money though for trimming light weight stuff like digital prints and banners etc. Oh and forget about it for pop ups where accuracy is important.

Most of the suppliers will carry the rollers and brushes you’re after mate, just pick one and try them.

Andy

Thanks Andy
image edge!
That’s the one knew i’d seen it on here but couldn’t remember the name,
I’m only looking for it to cut light foamx and vinyl. nothing more, As i have the guillotine for the heavier stuff

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quote David McDonald:

Hi All

Is it correct that you have to be 64 bit OS to use more than 4Gb RAM??

Cheers
Macky

Hi Macky
I used to be a developer for MS and automatically got the blue-Badge version of Win7 18 months ago this was the in-house version of Win7 and I have to say that it’s been pretty faultless from day one,
The only Issue I have had is the MS VX100 video-live-cam didn’t work until recently, Which is a bit rubbish considering it’s a Microsoft camera. Ironic or what.
Anyway yes 64 bit can handle just about any size of memory that your machine can take,
I have a main system that’s running 2 lots of 32Gb memory, Don’t ask! It was expensive and i was just showing off.

most 32bt wiin7 and XP systems today will only be able to handle 3.5GB or their abouts,
It also depends on system resources ie video, sound, memory, allocation,
also having the latest service pack can affect how any system will run, as any new updates usually free up resources.
I’m currently running on my 5 systems win7 32bt on 4 of them and the fifth is running win7 64bt their are some driver issues on the 64bt side of things but this is because I’m still running some old third party crap. no issues what so ever on win7 32bt with flexi 8.1 artcut, signlab, The only real issue I have is it all runs so dam well I know that when it bu$$ers up it’s going to do it big time….

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quote Nicola McIntosh:

i hope your not going to tell him the trade price? 😕

No Nicola, Never!

Heavens to Betsy! No! And NO Again!

Anyone that gives the trade price for vinyl to a customer, Needs to be put against a wall and severely flogged,
Well that’s my fetish dealt with (hot)

quote :

Paul Humble
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:
I never tell them the cost price, and my price to sell off the roll varies depending on my stock levels. I have charged £20 a meter quite easily for Oracal 651 in the past (old stuff I dont use anymore) but if its in relation to a job I tell them that its almost impossible to give a price per meter as every job is bespoke and my suppliers price according to the size of my order.

Its a load of cobblers but they seem to love it when you call their job Bespoke! lol

Paul! I love your Cobblers

Err,mm Sorry didn’t mean to say it like that, 😳 well you know what I mean 🙄 Bespoke 😉 love it

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quote :

A couple of big mean hairy bikers,
And
A brick! If their none payers,
Works for me 🙄

quote :

wouldn’t they just rustle up a quick quiche though?

with my luck your probably right :oops

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quote John Hughes:

Any good to you ?

cheers
John

Sorry John meant to reply earlier.
I found a the same picture only a bit bigger
thanks for trying anyway
What i may do, Is to take a picture of my own bike, And use the distort tools in illustrator to see how it looks, a proper template would have been nice though.. Re Ray:)

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quote Stuart Green:

what methods do people use to ensure they get there money from customers. i hate non payers!!!! does everyone use a contract on this forum as i dont?? if so what do you include??

mod-edit 1 please post topics in correct forum
this post has now been moved

A couple of big mean hairy bikers,
And
A brick! If their none payers,
Works for me 🙄

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quote John Childs:

I think you’re gonna struggle with that one Roy.

As far as I’m aware, there is no such thing as a bike outline CD, which would make sense to me, as the market would be so small as to make it non-viable.

I did manage to find a vector (side view only) of a GL1800 somewhere on the internet, so I can only suggest that you get Googling. Search for ST1100 though, because they are only known as Pan Europeans on this side of the Atlantic.

Thanks John

H’mm just wonder if I can get a decent photo’s of my bike, Could I perhaps vecter it and resize, Then use that to make some templates,
Anyone any ides of the colour of background i would have to place the bike against, The Bikes wine red in colour re Ray:)

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quote Neil Davey:

In Flexi 7.5 Production Manager, all you do is click on the advanced tab and you have options of a weeding border or easy weed or vertical and horizontal cut lines.

Don’t know if Flexi 8 is the same but I would imagine it is.

Neil

Yep! Flexi 8 is the same thing, You’ve just got to look for it.
I seem to find things better, After a nice 10 year old malt. *hair*

Sorry just looked at the date an old post
Think I’ve had to much of the 10 year old stuff (:)

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Yeah! I like the white and green it makes you look at it.
Mind you Sunglasses would be an optional extra! 😎 (<(

[RayRosher]

Thanks Allan.. I’ll gbet him to try that

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Thnaks For checking in Paul
yes it is about the Houston dmp60c
My mate thinks he may have solved the problem,
he’s done a self test and it seems top be cutting the vinyl

the only problem is that when he trys to use his software I think its vinylmaster2 or something like that

he cannot get the cutter to work! he as it on LPT1 Spp in bios and as run the plotter setup wizard the dmp 60C is not listed! so he went to the next one up 65C he’s running winXp and has not loaded any drivers for the cutter mainly because he doesn’t have any for it. he’s also using the dongle thing that I got with it although i dont know if it will work for that software, any advice you can give would be a help. thanks Ray

[RayRosher]

Hi Dave
Sorry mate my friend is more of an electronics engineer than a software engineer, not sure hopw you would fix that i know that if you bugger up the cmos bios on a pc you can throw the board away as theirs no way of fixing it.

Good Idea Drag-on the only problem is that the machine is about 15 years old! maybe worth a try though,

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Thanks Chris I’ll give them a phone :wave:

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Thanks rightsigns

I was actually looking once I get up and running at joining the UKsign group,

some good honest straight forward advice, which is what i needed,

ok were would I geta copy of Mike Stevens Book – “Mastering layout

as for the vehicle outlines cd’s are their any that are a waste of money and any that are well worth the money considering that I’m in the UK their seems to be a lot os amercian cutting software out their that seems unsuitable for the UK market,
Thanks Ray:)

[RayRosher]

Thnaks Guys I’ll give the magnet centering a go see if that helps
Failing that I maybe on the lookout for a vinyl cutter

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quote Stickerland:

Hi James,

I’ve bought lot’s and lot’s of designs at ebay.
Next I have 2 cd’s of Aurora graphics. (these are real good!)

Dennis

Hi Stickerland
I’d be really interested to know which cd’s you found the most usefull,
As I’m about to start lettering vans and small menu boards,
Also which cd’s to steer clear of
And which cd’s would you be lost without,
Re Ray Rosher

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quote Robert Lambie:

hi, welcome to the boards…
first question for you… have you ever applied vinyl. if so, how long etc?

if signlab and comes with dongle then go for it, its one of, if not the best sign softwares. just my opinion of course 😀

The easy answer to that is no
However I have helped a chap a few times and know about wetting the panel to allow myself to position the vinyl etc and how to take out air bubbles
iv’e also researched the differnet vinyls ie 3 year 7 year,
and how to use mask and appliacation tape.
I know that if i do this, it’s going to be a long hard learning curve,
But it’s one that I look forward to,as for the lettering the company that sells the vans only really offer simple styles and graphics nothing to fancy which would suit me until i get a handle on how to do this properly… re Ray:)

[RayRosher]

quote autosign:

Yeah, I remember the Xbox box!

Yeah I bid on one of those and won 👿

[RayRosher]

HI All
I’ve been reading this thread with some interest,
as a custom spray painter, who is now trying to branch out into the vinyl side of things,

All but two of the custom jobs I have done over the past six months have been cash on delivery,
The other two none payers simply didn’t get their motorcycles back, until they paid,
I also charged them storage and insurance costs, to cover the extra increase in my premeuim,

could someone expalin the pro forma type of invoice is this simply just another way of say COD, only in a legal contract type of way,
as im’m now going to add vinyl lettering to my business, any advice would help…..

[RayRosher]

Thanks Marek..

The more I looking this signage stuff, The more I think I could be quite good at it,

If I can get this cutter working, could be another string to my already overexteneded bow :lol1: