[Tim Painter]

Hi Reza

They do that’s why I like Simon I cut the back side.

[Tim Painter]

I cut direct from Corel using Roland driver if I accidently leave a path filled white it cuts twice, just a thought.

[Tim Painter]

Harry it may be worth trying a local commercial printer as I’m sure most will have a few cutting forms they already keep.

[Tim Painter]

What Corel version?

[Tim Painter]

Hi Glenn

I assume you mean they visualy change not actual colour values?

[Tim Painter]

Just throwing this in the pot.

Maybe a fan down or not blowing air through properly so it overheats?
Intermittent fault with the actual heat element.

[Tim Painter]

Staufen PVC

[Tim Painter]

or create a mask in PPaint, then Mask – Mask Outline – Feather.

[Tim Painter]

Why do you want to cut upto 720mm wide?

That machine takes media to 712mm and cuts to max 603mm ??

[Tim Painter]

Xerox do Never Tear which is designed to run through lasers, iGen digi printers etc.

I assume it is a similar type of product.

[Tim Painter]

Go to an electrical wholesalers far cheaper and they will give you far more help.

[Tim Painter]

Hugh I know you have the offset set to blade details but have you performed the offset test to see what it’s like?

Cheers
Tim.

[Tim Painter]

I would check the blade offset.
Check that all grub screws on any gears that the motor drives are tight.
Get new rollers.

Clean the bloody thing :lol1:

[Tim Painter]

Martin there is Translucent black your correct, I have never actually noticed it let any light through.

It does go down better on acrylic I feel when covering a large area and ties in
with the more satin type finish translucents have.

[Tim Painter]

The wind loading would concern me.

2" sounds narrow for flagpoles

[Tim Painter]

Not sure if they are all colour backed on to white, but the KPMF discolours when stretched. There not like a solid colour throughout the material thickness.

[Tim Painter]

I just set the fill to around 85% black so the lines are still visible.

[Tim Painter]

Roland part only I would say.

Probably worth a call to Roland to see if you can test it before ordering anything.

[Tim Painter]

Behind the pinch rollers you have small blocks sat in a recess.
Not sure what they are possibly magnets.

On a 3 roller machine only the outside ones have these.
Are they all there or maybe been knocked out?

or possible damage to the pinch roller sense board on the cutting head or any wires disconnected from the cutting head.

[Tim Painter]

It’s the amps not the volts you need to calculate.

[Tim Painter]

Just another thought, have the modules failed or caused a higher load on the cables generating the excess heat.

This increased heat has caused the foam burn.

I don’t do led’s but are fuses fitted the 12v side as a safety measure?
Looks a great potential fire risk if there was more plastic.

[Tim Painter]

I can’t see the acp causing any issue.

Just throwing some things in the pot:

Is the insulation reacting somehow with the foam, has the insulation actually gone to the extent of the 2 wires shorting?

50 modules, is the power supply up to supply enough wattage for all of them?

I think the foam is the issue not the acp, I think there needs to be more breathing space if you must use it where the cable passes through.

[Tim Painter]

Cheryl

Color Bridge has Solid Pantone colour with the CMYK Process colour shown next to it with cmyk values, also RGB values and HTML value.

It will give you a better understanding of colours that are difficult to match from
solid Pantone colours to cmyk as cmyk has a smaller colour gamut.

[Tim Painter]

Hi Cheryl

I have used these before on Parish notice boards.

Good quality, no complaints.

http://www.vitincom.eu

[Tim Painter]

quote :

as the owner is on a tight budget

How large is the sign?

Just curious as you mention tight budget, opal isn’t cheap and to do it properly
if it requires rebating all takes time and translucent vinyl more expensive that standard vinyl.

[Tim Painter]

quote :

how about sun sea and sand with a million tiny paint pots…

Must be too much lemsip for me today….lol

[Tim Painter]

John how deep do you need to route?

I would still of though Corian was suitable mounted on to some sort of backing.
I believe you can get 6mm , 12.5mm & 19mm.

[Tim Painter]

Like Martins top one, although I can see 2 eyes and a nose… :lol1:

[Tim Painter]

Avoid it like the plague.

Yes have some form of digital machine for very small runs and a guillotine.

The rest farm out, good margins to be had if you put the right jobs with the right printers.

Small scale litho is dead, unless you concentrate on a specific bespoke line.

[Tim Painter]

Manual states RS232c.
Null modem cables have pins 2 / 3 crossed over, so 2 goes to 3 / 3 goes to 2. The rest are straight through.

Serial
ON / OFF
SW-1 Baud rate 9600 / 4800
SW-2 Parity check Disable / Enable
SW-3 Parity check ODD / EVEN
SW-4 Data bits 8-bit / 7-bit
SW-5 Stop bits 1-bit / 2-bit
SW-6 Handshake Hardwire XON/XOFF
SW-7 Blade offset 0.25 / 0.5*
SW-8 Sheet weight Light / Heavy
SW-9 Sheet size Roll / Piece
SW-10 Smoothing ON / OFF

Off is towards the numbers on the DIP switch.

[Tim Painter]

Null Modem cable for serial on that.
You also need to set the DIP switches so the baud rate etc is the same as the serial on the PC end.

[Tim Painter]

Farm it out.

Fairprint
Quinns Belfast
Print24 – Germany

all depends on what the job is.

[Tim Painter]

I would seal it first with uni bond or such.

Sorry can’t be any more help than that.

Tim.

[Tim Painter]

John what were the brake issues?

I have a SWB 03 plate it had the box done before I got it.
I just wish they took an 8×4 sheet 🙁 apart from that I love it.

I think they missed a trick not making the SWB take an 8 x 4.

[Tim Painter]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
Mind the shark…lol

[Tim Painter]

Thanks Alan

[Tim Painter]

Stephen

Im Corel I would put one of the tyre marks at say 12 o’clock on the world circle then double click it and move the centre it rotates around to the centre of the world circle. Duplicate it and rotate.

[Tim Painter]

Hi Tony

There was another thread on here where someone had a similar issue, they changed the tape to a thinner tape (thickness not width) and the problem was resolved.

When the letter were getting warm the shear forces were causing the centre cention of the tape to stretch I believe.

Hope this is of some help.

[Tim Painter]

As I started this thread I feel it only fair to Blackburn Metals that I update their company responce to me, as I have never had any issues with them and can’t fault the service I have been given to date.

My local rep has fed back to me responses from The National Sales Manager for Sign Products and The Managing Director.

Apparently it is not an issue that has been raised elsewhere, but my points have been taken on board and at the next board meeting this will be brought up and see what can get put in place and how quickly it can be implemented.

Once they have decided what the way forward is I will be informed.

I will post any updates as and when I hear anything.

They do have the link to this thread, so any constructive criticism I’m sure would be welcome.

[Tim Painter]

Look at the Opal acrylic prices, those were why I brought this up.

[Tim Painter]

I’m not out to cause problems, just try and protect my business like any other would.

My local rep has passed on my comments and I have given him this link in the hope that
it is seen more seriously than just 1 customer having a whinge.

[Tim Painter]

http://www.burning.me/2010/02/how-to-cr … t-quickly/

[Tim Painter]

Same as the Gerber as you will know Chris.

I’ve never found anything other than an OP manual either.

Could possibly be the bearings that carry it on the rail, a wipe and silicon spray on the rail is sometimes best, too much of any thicker kind of lube I feel can cause more problems attracting grime etc.

[Tim Painter]

Only tip I can offer is if you take any covers off keep it connected to the mains (not on) so it is earthed. They have EEPROMS which can be temprimental from any static shocks, also run it from an anti surge if you don’t already.

I would give it a good blow out with canned air and use a light sewing machine oil or such on any phosphur bronze bearings and maybe some vaseline on any gears. Cleaning off any crap first.
Any roller bearing I would remove and put some WD40 on wiping of the excess after.

Sorry I can’t be more help than that.

[Tim Painter]

Not sure how your creating them but can’t you just back to back sheets?

[Tim Painter]

Upside down horseshoe is bad luck.

[Tim Painter]

Hardly a promotional video, with what nearly happened.

I can’t believe they uploaded it.

[Tim Painter]

It’s a bit like a lathe to rotate the core and it looks like the one in Robs link has the cutter driven also I presume to stop it skidding.

The same sort of set up is used to cut rolls of foil for foil blocking / hot foiling. Although the cutter usually isn’t driven.

[Tim Painter]

Are you using the Roland printer driver direct? from what program?
or a plugin?

[Tim Painter]

http://www.jagsignsupplies.com/aqshop/c … php?id=518

[Tim Painter]

I had to do a similar thing when I first registered for VAT.

More statistics I guess.

[Tim Painter]

I think it could be a combination of factors, if the acrylic has expanded since fitting then it would be the same as Phils drawing with the locators being pushed out. Contributing to the failing bond to the composite.

[Tim Painter]

Maybe a yellow outline on the monkey head with black inline.

Increase the line space on the bullets, then line the tel number with it top / web bottom.

[Tim Painter]

Hi Craig

I still think the Monkey head needs to be with the text on he windows.

Change ‘and’ to ‘&’ allowing you to increase the text size.
Also keeps it consistent with the bullet ‘&’.

Size the bullets so they align nicely with each end of the monkeycustard.

I think all the bullets should be centered.

Reduce the monkeycustard on the back so it doesn’t look squashed in to the window size.

Just my 2p’s worth.

[Tim Painter]

Hi Craig

I think the Monkey image needs to layout wise tie in with the name better.

I would do the bullets over 2 lines – with each bullet as a single line of text not over 2 lines as you have it.

I think I would probably keep everything parallel to the sill, but maybe run the side bullets at an angle.

[Tim Painter]

some how accidentally posted in the wrong place…ooops

[Tim Painter]

If they are wanting to go black I think it would be the worst colour for shrinkage due to heat if you mitre.

If you apply wrap vinyl in one piece how are you going to post heat without possibly affecting the plastic.

Do the garage door white :lol1: instead

[Tim Painter]

Photopaint:

Effects – Creative – Vignette

or create a mask and feather the edge.

[Tim Painter]

Signwaves do small oves.

This looks not bad for the money – obviously you would need 2 one either end.

http://www.sign-holders.co.uk/Floor-sig … 12-93-103/

[Tim Painter]

I’m confused Versamount has a website?

versamount.co.uk

[Tim Painter]

I wasn’t trying to size it – just find out if it is print or cut and what sort of aggro it
is working in the centre.

Could do with off loading this if anyone is on the door step to the Southampton area.

[Tim Painter]

You must of spoken to an American.

gsm over here, Grams per square meter.

[Tim Painter]

Hugh you could of run a nice capping piece along the top of the smaller one
with a bevel edge all round if you are concerned about it being sat on, stood on etc etc.

[Tim Painter]

Not being solid bodies I would of thought it affected the sound.

[Tim Painter]

A decent job in composite.

Why use foam, I refuse to use it on such jobs.

I have a salon near me that I wouldn’t budge on – they went for foam and a zillion fixings.

Has a wonderful wave running all along it where it has expanded.

[Tim Painter]

I assume he meant to say Dahlgren, not Dahlagren Dave.

[Tim Painter]

Obviously specs for supplying AW are apparently a waste of time.

I think I had 1 page printed once 🙄

[Tim Painter]

All colours CMYK
All images CMYK 300dpi
Flatten any gradients or transparencies.
3mm Bleed as said with crop marks.
Output to PDF, if you use Corel you can set the bleeds and crop marks in the PDF process.
Select convert all fonts to curves to avoid font problems.
Un-select preserve document overprints.

[Tim Painter]

Hi Martin

I only just had an email back from

a Carl Eagan this afternoon after reading your post stating:

Hi Tim,

We currently have 78m of 1230mm and 42m of 610mm of this colour in stock.

Regards

Carl Egan

Carl.Egan@allprint.co.uk

so that’s strange.

[Tim Painter]

Martin

All Print – South still have some on the shelf if you need it.

78m of 1230mm and 42m of 610mm of this colour in stock.

Tim.

[Tim Painter]

Is the test cut not a built in machine feature? so nothing to do with interface.

Check the blade offset is correct and check the blade turns ok in it’s holder as there is a small bearing in it.

[Tim Painter]

Much appreciated, thanks chaps.

[Tim Painter]

I would run the brand logos as one strip if you must have a white background rather than individual blocks.

[Tim Painter]

Yep but don’t forget colour shift with some colour combinations.

[Tim Painter]

Weld shadow and letter to create the bottom layer.
Then overlay top letter.
More difficult to register but looses the ridge that option 2 creates.

[Tim Painter]

Harry If the option was to just buy one I would go for a Pantone Colour Bridge Guide.

[Tim Painter]

Eurostyle Extended Regular

[Tim Painter]

Love to here any comments on this years show?

Struggling to get there for the last day 🙄

[Tim Painter]

Negative Rake Blade – high teeth count – is what stu was trying to say.

[Tim Painter]

How large are the letters?

I would of thought standard locators ( 2 part spacer ) – these come in 3 sizes used depending on size of letter.

[Tim Painter]

Alan did you beta x6?

Would be interest in what you think if you did.

[Tim Painter]

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[Tim Painter]

I know it’s being discussed there Dave just saying it’s now released.

Link works for me, think it’s their end.

[Tim Painter]

As has been said poor quality paint job.

Removed some graphics from a clients car the other week and paint came off in one area.

At the right angle you could see it had a poor repair in that section.
With the fine scratches from being rubbed down visible.

[Tim Painter]

Thanks for the Technical Spec Jill :lol1:

[Tim Painter]

a big thanks to Bernie (:)

Been watching over 25 Years – not a happy bunny!

[Tim Painter]

Also make sure the end of the trays does not coincide with the end of a run of angle.

[Tim Painter]

Can’t think of anything off the shelf.

Why not modify a snap frame, mount it onto ACM or such with a stake.

[Tim Painter]

‘Blue Peter’ special no doubt Chris.

[Tim Painter]

Hugh holes probably drilled by the powder coaters and not Ashby, although Ashby should specify or drill themselves if it’s critical.

Panels etc are hung off the production line as they go through the powder spray booth and then the oven.

[Tim Painter]

I assume in the Hybrid drives the SSD part acts as a speedy buffer dave?

[Tim Painter]

I think Raid 5 would be your best bet Warren which the system you quoted can do.

RAID 5

Advantages

Read data transactions are very fast while write data transaction are somewhat slower (due to the parity that has to be calculated).
Disadvantages
Disk failures have an effect on throughput, although this is still acceptable.
Like RAID 3, this is complex technology.

Ideal use

RAID 5 is a good all-round system that combines efficient storage with excellent security and decent performance. It is ideal for file and application servers

[Tim Painter]

Depends on how the Array is configured warren.
For speed, mirroring (encase of disc failure).

What programs do you run and what are you trying to achieve?

I don’t understand why you would want to us an SSD for backup simon.

[Tim Painter]

Use the SSD as scratch / temp drive.

Although i assume (Not 100% sure) at some point the system will only be as quick as it’s slowest bottleneck in the processing process.

[Tim Painter]

I think some of mine from Leo were lousy Derek – caps were fine just some of the screw seats seamed to be poor with off centre holes.

[Tim Painter]

Tech8

http://www.tech8.eu/spares/details.php? … R-21545137

[Tim Painter]

How wide is it?

[Tim Painter]

Vast improvement, I hope the shop doesn’t cause any planning issues?

[Tim Painter]

http://www.leofixings.com/fixings-produ … 4-217.html

[Tim Painter]

I don’t see the tie with the name and the dog.

What about a coat of arms instead, just a thought.