UVRay
New Member
Hey gang,
I've been lurking round here long enough and finally decided to join.
I work for a large commercial manufacturing company in Dallas that makes retail store interiors and fixtures. I run the Digital Imaging Dept. and I've got an Acuity 2504 4'x8' flatbed UV printer and an Oce 550XT 8'x10' flatbed.
I've worked in the printing industry all my adult life and enjoy the challenges and results. I'm an artist too, I do graphic design and paint with oils on canvas, do some woodworking and woodcarving now and then and build electric guitars in what's left of my spare time. I've been playing guitar for better than 40 years now. I've got a fairly complete woodworking shop in my double garage at home and it's part wood shop, part music studio and 100% man cave.
At work, I'm about to dive off into building a large CNC Router for the shop, my GM just gave me the OK on the project and approved the Bill of Materials so all that's left is to pry the corporate credit card out of his hands and let me order the parts.
Prior to this position I worked for Fujifilm in many areas over the years, ending up as a field service engineer in the wide format division, installing, training and servicing the Fuji line of flatbed UV printers which were made by Oce at the time. That life was so hectic, living out of a suitcase mostly, working from coast to coast, it takes a toll on you after so many years. I relish the fact that now I'm home every evening usually before 6pm.
I print a lot of signage for national stores so the quantities can be pretty large sometimes. I print on various medias but mostly 3mm and 6mm EPVC and way more styrene than I want. That styrene is a bugger to print on especially when I'm printing photographic images with a lot of flat tints in the foreground and backgrounds. Sometimes I get to help with prototyping new designs and materials, I've printed on office ceiling tiles, florescent light diffuser panels, Travertine tiles, whiteboards, 1/2" thick frosted acrylics, etc.
Ray
I've been lurking round here long enough and finally decided to join.
I work for a large commercial manufacturing company in Dallas that makes retail store interiors and fixtures. I run the Digital Imaging Dept. and I've got an Acuity 2504 4'x8' flatbed UV printer and an Oce 550XT 8'x10' flatbed.
I've worked in the printing industry all my adult life and enjoy the challenges and results. I'm an artist too, I do graphic design and paint with oils on canvas, do some woodworking and woodcarving now and then and build electric guitars in what's left of my spare time. I've been playing guitar for better than 40 years now. I've got a fairly complete woodworking shop in my double garage at home and it's part wood shop, part music studio and 100% man cave.
At work, I'm about to dive off into building a large CNC Router for the shop, my GM just gave me the OK on the project and approved the Bill of Materials so all that's left is to pry the corporate credit card out of his hands and let me order the parts.
Prior to this position I worked for Fujifilm in many areas over the years, ending up as a field service engineer in the wide format division, installing, training and servicing the Fuji line of flatbed UV printers which were made by Oce at the time. That life was so hectic, living out of a suitcase mostly, working from coast to coast, it takes a toll on you after so many years. I relish the fact that now I'm home every evening usually before 6pm.
I print a lot of signage for national stores so the quantities can be pretty large sometimes. I print on various medias but mostly 3mm and 6mm EPVC and way more styrene than I want. That styrene is a bugger to print on especially when I'm printing photographic images with a lot of flat tints in the foreground and backgrounds. Sometimes I get to help with prototyping new designs and materials, I've printed on office ceiling tiles, florescent light diffuser panels, Travertine tiles, whiteboards, 1/2" thick frosted acrylics, etc.
Ray
