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    Yes I like it a lot. I am more of a CNC router guy than a print shop. But I do have the...

    Yes I like it a lot. I am more of a CNC router guy than a print shop. But I do have the printer. It's nice, the learning curve for me was pretty high, but I was learning AI, PS, and this printer at the same time. You need to keep feeding it work. It will perform better the more you print.
  2. Joke

    Skeleton walks into a bar and sits down. Bartender: "What'll it be?" Skeleton: "Beer and a mop"
  3. Discussion Sweet Spot

    What would you say is your sweet spot in your business? Like what product would you say is your expertise?
  4. Not very happy with Corel X-8

    Methinks I will keep my x5 for awhile!
  5. Suggestions Wanting to start a new printing/sing company

    Be in as little debt as possible. You will probably have to borrow money to start, but the higher your debt, the higher your monthly responsibility is. If you work 70 hrs a week just to make your payments to the bank, how is being a business owner freeing? The borrower is always servant to...
  6. Question What's on your desk?

    Leg cramp medicine, 2 timing belt pulleys, one with 15 tooth spur, one with 21 tooth spur, a few fried circuit boards, a few working circuit boards.
  7. Need Help Black is printing Brown

    My guess is electrical...a circuit board somewhere perhaps, related to the power outage.
  8. How to get the different styles in a font

    In X7 it's ctrl F11, called "insert character," seems to be the equivalent of illustrator's glyph palette. Sorry, haven't worked with X5 for some time, not sure if it's in there.
  9. Anyone Using 27" Monitors?

    Agree completely, dualies is the way to go, never going back!
  10. Just In Might have to sell the business...

    So yes, Billct2 is correct in his assessment, I once heard a businessman tell me he did 1,000,000 in sales in a certain year, then tell me his expenses were 950,000. That's a lot of cash you get to touch for a brief time. But what I've heard other businessmen tell me is you take your cash at...
  11. Question about building a DIY Vacuum table

    General rule: less leaking the better. If you aren't routing all the way through the material to create a leak in the vacuum during the cutting process, you should be absolutely fine with one 10hp pump. You must consider your electrical requirements and how much space you have in your panel...
  12. Question about building a DIY Vacuum table

    Ez Router | eBay Notice how this company sets up their vacuum table. that's 2" and 3" pvc pipe on there. note how they have their channels routed. use some sort of gasket material like frost king gasket, put that in the channels, and put the spoil board on there. your vacuum is only as...
  13. Question about building a DIY Vacuum table

    3/4" x 48" x 96" HDPE Sheet | U.S. Plastic Corp.
  14. Question about building a DIY Vacuum table

    Yes, you can get a plastic bed of sorts, probably cost you half as much as the aluminum.
  15. Suggestions UV Printing

    Thanks Pauly, that helps a lot. What machine do you have that is getting that kind of output? I'm assuming the 240 pcs in 40 mins is the size I gave as an example...5.75x8? Gino, to answer your question, I am able to do about 40 of those signs in about 17 minutes. Any increase in time would...
  16. Suggestions UV Printing

    We're talking dollars here. Of course I can get a faster machine for over 100k, but how long till I break even? In our CNC department, we figured out how to increase hourly output very significantly with little extra labor. As a business owner, I firmly believe that questioning the status...
  17. Suggestions UV Printing

    We do gang them. I have a tray that holds 40 pcs and we print the whole table. Last order I had was for 2500 pcs and the order before that was for about 5000 pcs. Volume is the name of the game in my arena. We manufacture for distributors that wholesale to the retailers. So we are a few...
  18. Suggestions UV Printing

    Hello, I am a signmaker by trade, but have recently entered the world of UV printing with a Stratojet Shark FB1212. I'm hoping it proves to be an asset to our current lineup of products. So what I do is generate generic sign layouts in photoshop/illustrator. The kind of products we sell are...
  19. Illustrator and photoshop not printing same blue.

    what little i know Ok so I'm a signmaker by trade...pretty much all cnc and some laser...but i will share what tiny knowledge I have. We got a Stratojet UV printer earlier this year to make signs...so I am totally new at printing. We were told to originate all artwork in cmyk. The RIP...
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