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Image club is like a genital wart. You never get rid of them. Since starting on my own I went with dollar photo club. 6 months and I'm very happy with them and their selection. Not one call either. Just as advertised, a buck a download.
This is true. Chinese plotters are garbage. Super loud, very inaccurate and more trouble than they are worth if you are trying to run a professional business with them.
If you can print this great on good quality vinyl, but not on cheap grimco house brand....There's your answer.
Often the cheap stuff is just that, cheap.
Isolate the sign in the photo, scale to full size, vectorize and redraw it clean. Add the color and be done. It will be so close nobody will tell the difference.
Another thought is reverse weed the letters out of brushed steel vinyl apply that to clear acrylic backer and use acrylic adhesive to glue the letters. You also get a mounting template already built in.
I just spent a lot of time researching this cutter. Ended up just buying the Mimaki SR3 54". Everything about the cheap chinese plotters is bad and I've run a few other chinese brands in my day to know you buy Roland, Summa, Graphtec or Mimaki....or don't waste your money. The Titan requires...
When I do hdu I will use Lord adhesive to glue it to aluminum or dibond. For 1 ", use 3/4" screws. Once the Lord adhesive sets, back the screws out and put gorilla glue in the holes and put the screws back in. Everything is bonded together now and won't warp.
Also check out the shopbot forum. They have the 100,000 garages program where you can locate a shopbot owner near you that will likely do router work cheap. I have a guy here I use until I can justify my own CNC. Many of these guys are looking for work to use their CNC
Locking casters are a good idea, I honestly rarely lock mine though and the table has never moved on me whewhen I don't want it to. It sure is nice to be able to wheel them around easily by myself when I need to reconfigure shop space.
Many sign supply houses will route the shape for you very cheaply. I'd suggest one for you, but I don't know where a long lonesome highway east of Omaha is exactly.
I built mine 42" high with a rhino cutting mat on top. No hunching over to weed or work on things. Consider storage shelves underneath for all the little tools and things that clutter the top, particularly dowel rods for tape and occasional vinyl rolls. Mine are 4x8, on locking casters and...
This makes me want to sketch the image in my head of an apple with big ape hanger bars and a worm (think earthworm Jim from the 90's Sega game) riding it, but I'm beat from the installs in the heat all day and the beers are flowing nicely now.
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