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  1. CentraPrinthead

    try sign in china, they have decent prices I use them all the time. Print quality is just as good as the heads I get from our usual US based supplier
  2. Need Help Need help with this shopbot

    Thanks for the link! I was wondering how all these pieces come together. the diagram at the top solved a part of that puzzle. I am pretty sure im going to have to end up building my own table out of steel or extruded aluminum. My first question if I was able to get into the forum is what are the...
  3. Need Help Need help with this shopbot

    I recently inherited a shopbot PR 48 x 96. It was my first boss's and he left it to me after a battle with cancer. Along with whatever else was in his shop. I am pretty sure I have most of the parts or all of them just not sure how it all goes together. Shopbot doesn't have any support on their...
  4. Clients are idiots

    You have no idea how many questions were brought up in the office. I was talking with the husband. He was cool with the design and he sends his wife and her sister over to confirm. She sits over my shoulder and makes it look like what she sent us, which was something she had actually created in...
  5. Clients are idiots

    Every time I decide to help a client out with a decent design I get reminded of how painfully idiotic they are sometimes. I created this layout and the client came in with major attitude and nitpicked it down to barebones, akin to something you would do in Microsoft word. She paid for the...
  6. Not sure what to use ? Please help

    You'd need a face mount film. You mount the face mount like an over laminate and then mount that on the board with the face of the print on the back of the material. Kinda like a fish bowl
  7. Printer advice pls

    Epson has decent machines their support is notorious for telling you to go buy another machine when something goes wrong with the one you've got. Get a Roland or an hp latex. Cant go wrong with Roland
  8. Review Rebranded Logo Thoughts

    Rebranding this year and made up a new logo scheme for the main print shop and sister website
  9. What formula do you use to quote a job?

    We use a custom built system I started about 6 years ago and have refined over the years. Its a combination of material / ink costs, profit markups, automatically calculated labor charges and pretty accurate waste calculations for all medias and substrates used. Currently we do signage and short...
  10. Is it necessary to change dampers and when replacing a head

    Thanks! Appreciate the help guys
  11. Is it necessary to change dampers and when replacing a head

    We just replaced a head on our Roland but we have another that has been out of commission for about 6 weeks or so, it has been doing its cleaning cycles but no ink has been going through the head. Does the ink affect the ink lines or damper system if it isnt circulated constantly like the head...
  12. Looking to buy Chinese UV Flatbed

    Ive purchased at least two high value machines from china. And they've worked great, I haven't had any major problems with them and any problem I did have I called tech support and it was resolved in a day or two. Any parts I needed could be shipped in 24hrs and I could get support on Skype to...
  13. Replacement Print Head options, SP300v?

    We just got a replacement for our Roland, they are B grade parts but they work fine, Instruction manual on the site will save you thousands as well. Go for it
  14. JV33 main board replacement

    Sign in China has the spare parts for cheaper than your dealer and the service Manual with pictures and in depth instructions on how to replace it for free. Just replaced a Roland printhead with their parts and the service manual I got for free. If you can tinker with it then go for it and save...
  15. looking for a router

    You can try those guys at that diy router website where you basically build your own. They give you all the instructions and a parts list. Personally I don't enjoy putting things together but if you do you'll save thousands
  16. Throw away laminator

    Why not just outsource the service if its a one off. This little 26 inch laminator will give you hell unless those signs are a few inches across. Someone with a 64" or even a 54" laminator can mount full 4 x 8s in a few seconds. As far as they go we have only used Royal sovereign, Seal and Ledco...
  17. 10 yrs Experience Production Manager Seeking employment in the United States

    Currently I am a production manager at a medium sized sign shop in the Bahamas. My reasons for wanting to leave Are two fold, I recently found out about family that I have living in the United States and would like to be closer to them and secondly, to make a better life for my own family. I...
  18. Looking for this image

    shutterstock istock depositfiles prettymuch any stock image website
  19. Wrapping door jambs for color change wrap

    Were doing some color change wraps and the client wants to wrap all the door jambs. Is there a standard method of doing this, we normally dont do them and I dont want to stress the material too much and ruin a panel by getting it to go down another say 3/4 inches with all those contours. Where...
  20. 3D Software that will map to a 2D Plane for printing on Hydrographic film

    If youre not looking to spend any money on it I would just go with blender. For other options I would suggest zbrush for unwrapping. http://pixologic.com/zbrush/features/UV-Master/ Ive used C4D for about 6 years and its great but body paint is more trouble than its worth.
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