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I am relatively new to the sign and printing game and so far loving it. Not to say it has been an easy ride so far, it has been very challenging to say the least. An opportunity came up to purchase a used Roland VP-540 and I jumped on it. I had to work 3 months straight laboring without a day off 5am-5pm just to get this machine.
I think its safe to say I wanted to get into this industry big time! Once I finally paid for the machine and had it all installed at my home then the real fun begun No one told me about color profiles, media profiles and all the other fun things that go with it. So here I am 8 months later spending weekends, mornings, nights learning as much as I can possibly learn to get this as near perfect as possible.
From the get go I had problems with banding, over spray, and disconnection issues. I had experts look into it and tell me they have never encountered the particular characteristics I was experiencing which made it more difficult to resolve. Finally 90% of the problems are gone, I am replacing the black head in 1 hour which should be fun.
I am new to this site and already I can see how helpful this experience is going to be, I read the Newbie post from the administrator talking about new people in the sign industry thinking they know everything. I myself and happy to learn from the helpful criticism so feel free to correct me if I am wrong as the reason why I am on here is not to sit back in my chair pretending to be something I am not and that is a master sign writer or printer. I am here to become one!
Choosing this industry for me has been probably the most challenging so far but I am here to stay. This is it for me I will be in this industry until I retire so let the good times and the bad begin. I look forward to speaking with a lot of you and hope to learn from you all! I am situated on the Gold Coast - Australia so anyone nearby feel free to add me as a friend to exchange ideas.
I am relatively new to the sign and printing game and so far loving it. Not to say it has been an easy ride so far, it has been very challenging to say the least. An opportunity came up to purchase a used Roland VP-540 and I jumped on it. I had to work 3 months straight laboring without a day off 5am-5pm just to get this machine.
I think its safe to say I wanted to get into this industry big time! Once I finally paid for the machine and had it all installed at my home then the real fun begun
No one told me about color profiles, media profiles and all the other fun things that go with it. So here I am 8 months later spending weekends, mornings, nights learning as much as I can possibly learn to get this as near perfect as possible.From the get go I had problems with banding, over spray, and disconnection issues. I had experts look into it and tell me they have never encountered the particular characteristics I was experiencing which made it more difficult to resolve. Finally 90% of the problems are gone, I am replacing the black head in 1 hour which should be fun.
I am new to this site and already I can see how helpful this experience is going to be, I read the Newbie post from the administrator talking about new people in the sign industry thinking they know everything. I myself and happy to learn from the helpful criticism so feel free to correct me if I am wrong as the reason why I am on here is not to sit back in my chair pretending to be something I am not and that is a master sign writer or printer. I am here to become one!
Choosing this industry for me has been probably the most challenging so far but I am here to stay. This is it for me I will be in this industry until I retire so let the good times and the bad begin. I look forward to speaking with a lot of you and hope to learn from you all! I am situated on the Gold Coast - Australia so anyone nearby feel free to add me as a friend to exchange ideas.
for the compliment on my website. I did it myself and im giving it a clean up next week to improve on it and add videos.. Good luck with your business also I hope everything goes well for you. I am flat out with print jobs at the moment which is great. I went and hit the streets 4 weeks ago and introduced myself to businesses in my area. I did this for 3 days and got probably 35 or so print jobs out of it and also referrals so I highly recommend doing this if you havent already 
