Jerry of SignBlazer
New Member
Hi Everyone, I am a new member.
Have been involved in the sign industry since 1982 and in development of sign software since 1987. I have looked over a lot of sign forums and this is the first one I have been tempted to join. Very, very impressed with the forum. I feel that I can contribute to the forum and help other members on a huge range of subjects.
Mostly I would love to hear on two subjects, gripes about software, anything that you do not like at all.
Especially things that you feel could done better or allow the user to do particular tasks more easily.
The second subject I would love to hear about is what members would love to see in software – missing tools, whatever.
We are completely rewriting our software with one aim. To make graphics for wide format printing (including print and cut) as easy to do to any size as vinyl cutting software is to produce vinyl signs. This is a big project. I promise that I am not using this forum to push our software.
I do not care how complex a function you want to see in software –please tell me about it. Perhaps other members can add critiques to the opinions.
My experience not only most graphics software it also covers most brands of vinyl cutters including many of the Chinese ones flooding the western market to all the traditional brands we use. The same with most brands of wide format printers. To drive these machines we have to really get our hands “dirty” to make them work correctly.
In the next two years we are going to see a huge range of new solvent and UV printers for the sign industry. Although I am not allowed to talk about certain new products specifically due to non disclosure agreements I can talk in general about some of these new products for our industry.
One thing that I see is that we need something a lot better in software for wide format printing than is currently on the market. To do many tasks one has to own a huge amount of special software. Why? It appears that many tasks that my designer friends wish to do are totally impossible in just any one program. Do others who design signs find this a problem?
Especially if you come from using brushes and doing artwork on paper.
Have been involved in the sign industry since 1982 and in development of sign software since 1987. I have looked over a lot of sign forums and this is the first one I have been tempted to join. Very, very impressed with the forum. I feel that I can contribute to the forum and help other members on a huge range of subjects.
Mostly I would love to hear on two subjects, gripes about software, anything that you do not like at all.
Especially things that you feel could done better or allow the user to do particular tasks more easily.
The second subject I would love to hear about is what members would love to see in software – missing tools, whatever.
We are completely rewriting our software with one aim. To make graphics for wide format printing (including print and cut) as easy to do to any size as vinyl cutting software is to produce vinyl signs. This is a big project. I promise that I am not using this forum to push our software.
I do not care how complex a function you want to see in software –please tell me about it. Perhaps other members can add critiques to the opinions.
My experience not only most graphics software it also covers most brands of vinyl cutters including many of the Chinese ones flooding the western market to all the traditional brands we use. The same with most brands of wide format printers. To drive these machines we have to really get our hands “dirty” to make them work correctly.
In the next two years we are going to see a huge range of new solvent and UV printers for the sign industry. Although I am not allowed to talk about certain new products specifically due to non disclosure agreements I can talk in general about some of these new products for our industry.
One thing that I see is that we need something a lot better in software for wide format printing than is currently on the market. To do many tasks one has to own a huge amount of special software. Why? It appears that many tasks that my designer friends wish to do are totally impossible in just any one program. Do others who design signs find this a problem?
Especially if you come from using brushes and doing artwork on paper.
I think of that myself, but one is not actually "making" money with a LFP until you pay for it. And when you really crunch the numbers and see just how long it would take to generate $30,000 (or whatever) in after-tax PROFIT, it's pretty sobering.
