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well after a year of back and forth negotiations and buying equipment i had one of my final business agreement meetings today. looks like no red flags have come up this entire year and the partnership will be signed within the next two or three days. it will be me, and the two people that...

handtop... looks like this platform is like some kind of license build. so now we have aojet, flora, CET, and handtop all making the same printer. i'm not surprised. in the solvent printer market the industry went to a "kit of parts" build. kind of open source printers much like cnc...

... there's not that much to pick. there's a bunch of veterans on this board that run these daily. i've got a CET fk512 stuck in storage because of moving to a new building issues. so maybe some day i'll be a flatbed guru. i did just go through the vetting of what printer for what price...

the price comparison is the most extreme with comparing aojet then flora then CET. and below that is the Ntek which looks to be a real solid dx5 starter flatbed. http://lyshuangying.en.alibaba.com/ http://youtu.be/n0FVhPr8FrM

from what i remember about the shop sabre is it had a screw drive (right term?) x on it and by really bearing down through material, this had some torsion issues. my cnc guy heard that and wanted to know he could really grind out parts through heavy material. so he sought out the most heavy...

the limac is bought. also limac offers a camera system that we will add next. (here's a vid of the camera in action) http://youtu.be/VwqSGNcsjYI think this is the model we've got http://youtu.be/vgmII708bNE

think ours (don't know the specifics) is a 5x10 with a magnetic collet. vacuum hold down and chip/dust removal, and "air-coolant" for cutting metal (not sure if we will prefer this over liquid coolant. it will definitely be cleaner for cutting printed heavy aluminum. $31k he said it was a...

cnc guy (who is obsessed with multicams, that's what he currently uses), at the recommendation of a cnc tech in houston, went with a 5x10 limac. he went to see it, fell in love with it. and the tech tells us of all the cnc's that he services, the limacs are the most dependable. we should be...

the print room that i pick up the prints from is fine. of course that room has a scrubber. when you pack up the prints and have them sitting in an unscrubbed room, that is when i can smell them outgassing for a few days. the scratch resistance, i'll have to do the same type of test with...

i've been jobbing out projects to an fb700 for the last two months. i can't speak to the coro, but the fb700 ink compared to all the flatbed samples i've come across is very delicate and has no solvent resistance whatsoever. my partner was preaching that he wanted an fb and i really feel like...

hoping for some input on this one. ...much appreciated.

well, i am putting on my big boy pants and putting a new slider and a new set of data ribbons in the printer. i was instructed by kent at macmedia to hook it all up, with no heads, or all but the yellow head. ...either way, what happens when you turn on a jv3 with no heads plugged in? error...

has it been tossing down a little black/colored rectangle here and there? or did it just go blehhhhh.... and when restarting does it go away? i'd look first for a loose/dislodged data ribbon, after that, a tech will come by and do data swap to see if you have one blown head. in the mean...

so they 500Q ink lay down leaves a tough cured finish? i was curious about this. the FB ink is laid on veeery thin and not completely cured for a day or so.

we knocked around this subject to death setting up this new shop... we went back and forth between multicam and axyz. a well known cnc tech suggested that we look at LIMAC. he discussed that of all the machines he services in the houston area, they are the most dependable. so my cnc guy went...

i have gotten sucked into the undertow of this new partnership. so i have a "broken" jv3, an uncoverted (from dye sub) chinese jv33 clone, and used 6x10 CET flatbed in a crate. meanwhile i've been subbing out work to an FB700 across town.

after i did a year end calculation, i found out i was at 72%. you'd think my gut reaction would be "great!". my reaction was that i'm not spending enough back into the business. 60% is the goal with the new partnership, anything higher will be cut back into equipment to go for more speed and...

definitely true. i picked up a freshly printed panel printed on an fb700 and put it in my van and continued to drive around town with it back there for the day. i had to keep the windows open because i was getting high. so the myth of "instant dry" for UV inks isn't entirely true. i'm...

my favorite place for ordering tubes and fittings is smallparts.com they seem to have every imaginable tube size and material. ++++++++++++ i just went there and the site is much different than it was a year ago. here's the link to 39 pages of tubes...

EXETRMELY BAD. that logo will send business running down the street to a competitor. novice or pro, always educate yourself on what has worked in the past. so, first just google "extreme logo" and you get about 1000 logos made using the word extreme. the ability thing is another issue...