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How's crime / theft in your areas these days?

ikarasu

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Sorry to hear about your break-in, such a pain in the ass. Had one a few years back and took a long time to get everything resolved. Meth heads also stole the copper from our A/C units outside so that was a nice $15k insurance claim to jack up our premiums for a bit.

What kind of cameras are you using? Those look really good, especially for a $120 camera. I need to add some solar/wifi ones outside our shop. We have the interior covered but the meth heads have been busy in the area lately.
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Sorry to hear about your break-in, such a pain in the ass. Had one a few years back and took a long time to get everything resolved. Meth heads also stole the copper from our A/C units outside so that was a nice $15k insurance claim to jack up our premiums for a bit.

What kind of cameras are you using? Those look really good, especially for a $120 camera. I need to add some solar/wifi ones outside our shop. We have the interior covered but the meth heads have been busy in the area lately.
Reolink atlas Solar is that one - Currently $180 CAD on amazon, but we got it for $140 cad...so wait for it to go back on sale.

They have some $100 CAD ones as well in their argus line... which is good, but I dont think it has the AI / Auto tracking. IT supposedly uses a new chipset that gives it more battery life - I was playing with it dozens of times yesterday, watching and downloading the videos, Flashing lights and running the alarm at the car that came in.... And it only dropped from 100% to 92% when I came in.... so the battery life on it is pretty amazing.


We have an Argus one in our warehouse, whole slew of them..and its good quality. This is about 25 FT in the air.... and you can zoom in and see the quality on the printers... I use it for monitoring the printers when I'm printing overnight, or walking away from them to do other stuff.

Ignore the mess... our usual operator tripped, broke his pelvis... found out it broke due to having bone cancer, and he's been off for weeks. recovering... so I'm juggling multiple jobs for the next month or two as I dont want to train someone else / temp replace him! Also ignore the obviously copyrighted canvas... its for the owners niece, I swear :roflmao: The zoom in isnt the best quality, but for a 36" wide sign, being able to make out the text is really good at 25 FT away.
 

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Humble PM

Mostly tolerates architects
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Reolink atlas Solar is that one - Currently $180 CAD on amazon, but we got it for $140 cad...so wait for it to go back on sale.

They have some $100 CAD ones as well in their argus line... which is good, but I dont think it has the AI / Auto tracking. IT supposedly uses a new chipset that gives it more battery life - I was playing with it dozens of times yesterday, watching and downloading the videos, Flashing lights and running the alarm at the car that came in.... And it only dropped from 100% to 92% when I came in.... so the battery life on it is pretty amazing.


We have an Argus one in our warehouse, whole slew of them..and its good quality. This is about 25 FT in the air.... and you can zoom in and see the quality on the printers... I use it for monitoring the printers when I'm printing overnight, or walking away from them to do other stuff.

Ignore the mess... our usual operator tripped, broke his pelvis... found out it broke due to having bone cancer, and he's been off for weeks. recovering... so I'm juggling multiple jobs for the next month or two as I dont want to train someone else / temp replace him! Also ignore the obviously copyrighted canvas... its for the owners niece, I swear :roflmao: The zoom in isnt the best quality, but for a 36" wide sign, being able to make out the text is really good at 25 FT away.
I sincerely hope you have a frieght lift as well as stairs for them printers!
 

ikarasu

Active Member
I sincerely hope you have a frieght lift as well as stairs for them printers!
Will really don't this Warehouse when they first moved in is stupid. It was a custom built mezzanine, the gate slide open... So all the printers got forklifted up here.

Getting the Suma up here and the flatbed up here was a chore, for what's worse is having skids of 4x8 coroplast for flatbed printing up here.... It's impossible to move them around with a pallet jack.

On top of it's all carpet.... The Suma shakes the whole floor, the flatbed and all the printers dripping whenever people are emptying them out.... I hate it! But sometimes you just inherit whatever you inherit
 

Humble PM

Mostly tolerates architects
I'd never trade my rough unevent concrete floors for carpet. You just have to simply (weasel words) plan and budget for the future plan you need, and then the inheritence has the potential to be what you want.

When London's (then) biggest pro photographic lab brought in a 60"(?) bromide digital printer/processing line, they were very pleased to show the crane lifting the unit through the 2nd(?) floor removed windows. Metroimaging - scarily expensive, but the dogs danglies for dead neutral, ultra premium B&W printing.
Their direct to substrate division is street level...
 

JBurton

Signtologist
Caught a guy doing donuts in the culde-sac
Looks like a late 90's ranger, I had a 97 with a v6, and it's just as likely this guy was on a test drive, because that thing would peel out constantly if the road was wet... or dry. Really any time it was in drive.
Also ignore the obviously copyrighted canvas...
I'm more interested in the self censored reflective coming out of the hp.
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Nice shot trying to divert attention there...
 

ikarasu

Active Member
Looks like a late 90's ranger, I had a 97 with a v6, and it's just as likely this guy was on a test drive, because that thing would peel out constantly if the road was wet... or dry. Really any time it was in drive.

I'm more interested in the self censored reflective coming out of the hp.
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Nice shot trying to divert attention there...
Haha, customer file... Same with the table I censored, customer work orders. So funny enough the copyrighted bluey worked perfectly... May be quasi illegal, but won't piss off a customer over it!

Just some parking signs unfortunately, 99% of what we print is boring... Which is why I bought my own printer, I prefer doing stickers and other customer artwork.
 

ikarasu

Active Member
I like seeing others shops. They are all different. I look at every detail
Yeah, it's always interesting seeing other people's shops. I wish I was around when they moved into this building... Although back then I didnt know what I know now, so probably wouldn't have helped.... But I'd love to design the areas and layouts - I still think putting printers and laminators on carpet is the worst thing this company has ever done.


Yesterday I was delaminating a full roll of traffic vinyl with 1170 Overlam.... So it uses a plastic backer. When I was done I went to cut the backer off to de-attach it... I got the most painful shock ever, it builds up so much static..I've been zapped changing wall outlets that were live, and I think this shock was worst!


The mez didn't used to be there, it was added on.. and they thought it'd look nice to put all the printers up there. Flatbed printer and all its stock is a pain.. having to forklift up skids of vinyl every other day is a pain, walking down fully laminated rolls to be cut up / processed in our production area is a pain.... Our shop is nice to lookat but not the most efficient by a long mile.
 
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