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i've posted it before many times, pacific coast paints is a authorized dealer as well as authorized to service roland machines, they also have a boneyard of older plotters that they pull peices off of for repairs on machines that it is getting harder to find parts for here is a link to their...

for the short time i owned this machine before i made the decision to get rid of it as it was never going to fit my needs, i printed with some off brand ribbons (zeronine) and had the same results with a brand new machine, and when i went backto rolands the problem disappeared, well that problem...

i dont know what it is that brought this image to into my mind, but MANY years ago, back in the day when we had a pressure washing system that sprayed laquer thinner for cleaning large screenprinting screens (we called that room the FUME TOMB) and it wasn't illegal at that time lol, when I was...

above i did post the suggestion of going through the process of drawing, scanning, and vectorizing your own art as i truly believe it is a skill that everyone in this industry should develop. on a sidenote but definitely related to this topic, I believe that many people are unaware that the...

we did have headaches, banding and color inconsistency, with a brand new machine, using only roland consumables. out of frustration we paid for a roland tech to come to our shop and try to figure out what we may have been doing incorrectly...he was unable to achieve results any better than we...

i have a couple stamps on my a$$ my first was in graphic design and commercial art, but in all honesty i learned more actually working in our family sign shop and my own, but i was also very immature at the time and did not take complete advantage of the education i was offered, young and dumb...

i have a older camtech routermaster 52 and a smaller router that i ordered all of the parts for and built myself that can cut 24" X 44". When i was in the sign biz we had a 4' X8' table and bigger is better IF you have the space and the workload to pay for it. software just depends on your...

i actually ran into something similar years ago where a client had purchased signs from an engraving company who had gone out of business and wanted signs duplicated and in frustration of doing the pocketing and prismatic lettering out of one piece of material i looked closely at the sign and...

Doug :U Rock: I had so much to add until you said it all. if you created the art YOURSELF, you are free to share it with whomever you wish for any or no price, but myself i prefer to be paid for my work as my artistic ability is what pays the bills. If you BOUGHT the art it still is not...

Mark you owned your PC60 about 3 weeks longer than we did. we added that machine to do scaled down models of proposed advertising promotional projects and to allow us to keep our large format machine running "real jobs" versus some of the nonsense we had to produce for our corporate client's...

dual monitors is the ONLY way to go CONGRATS, monitors are so affordable it really is a nice addition to your computer setup for the work we do. i picked up a 42" plasma monitor that i do use separately for presentations instead of hooking up my projector and that is a NICE little toy as well...

some people's kids. here you are getting paid (or you'd better be getting paid) to make a sign for a houseboat and looking for something for free, good grief, i wish i could get free art, materials, heck labor, while i'm dreaming lets throw in not having to pay taxes, or shop overhead as well...

another thing that i do on aluminum is to jog through the steps at the machine control panel and drill out all of the entry points prior to routing the job in aluminum. saves me many many router bits, and make sure to follow the rule of thumb you have been given above to make your cut depth 1/2...

that just sucks, i am glad you were able to troubleshoot and figure out what the problem was without having to pack that bad boy up and send it in for service. MYSTERY SOLVED

just an idea but why not draw something that encompasses all of the design elements that they want in the image (mountain, stream, trees etc). use a broad setting versus a fine setting on your drawing tool in your software so that you get that bold, simplistic look. when done clean up the edges...

another thing i think i should add after reading your reply and noted that you want to do holographic films...etc, most of these films are metalized polyester (such as Arlons metalized polyester 07 silver...the ones that look like crome, not glitter for lack of a better description in trying to...

i'm just curious do you already offer screenprinted garments as well? as that may be a more natural addition to your business. i sold sign and screenprinting equipment and supplies prior to starting my business (and making my escape from the family sign business) and i sold many textile...

Summa D60 is the most bang for your buck in my opinion if you are set on a 24" plotter, i especially like that it will allow you to feed material up to 30" through the machine (it will only cut 24" of that) but it is nice to have the option should a distributor be out of a size you need...

SO many people including myself have told you how to make your machine do what you want it to do....read it over , look up the terms that you do not understand and go through the steps,and do it, this is not rocket surgery.... in my opinion the key to being a competent professional sign maker...

kpc just so you know and this is not nonsense you did not buy a quality machine, you paid too much for a machine that should have never been introduced into the sign industry. it is extremely expensive to operate, it produces a mediocre quality of product and is totally unreliable and prone to...