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Apply the facemount adhesive to the banners, like any other lamination. Then take out the windows, run them through the laminator while applying the banner, just like to any other substrate. To help the adhesive cure, microwave for 30 seconds (remember, don't have any metal eyelets in the...

I should say that I have a javelin, as well as a Big Purple Ruler, and wouldn't go down that route, if precision were required. Just for ripping down. OK, suggestion firmly retracted. Buy once, buy good.

My workspace has strips of 10mm wide self adhesive magnetic tape on all the machines; backed razor blades on every printer, as well as around the laminator. 10mm is just wide enough that the blade isn't stood proud. I will have a look at the ST in the morning - a little bit of vhb or even velcro...

Clever. I'll have a look next week to see if there is similar in HS. If I can't find it, would you mind sharing? Would be good to start my migration to modern OS—old kit is starting to really groan with modern files (damn photographers, and their 100MP cameras...), as well as the demands of...

Recently tried using an ipad with a pen, but kept getting frustrated by the lack of modifier keys—too used to using a wacom with my left hand resting over the keyboard. Then tried it using sidecar, and suddenly on the mac screen, had all the palletes I wanted, as well as the modifier keys. Was...

That looks very much like a Keencut BigBench with an old style Javelin cutter. Very precise. I keep meaning to get a new top for ours with T-slots cut perpindicular to the cutting bar. DeadDoc, That's like a baby SteelTrak, perhaps without the ACM cutter. The 250cm version will do 8x4's. Those...

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Glad you've still got Catalina. Just looked in CM4 64>plug-in, and it goes up to CC 2020. I've got CC21 illustrator - that might be a problem waiting to be updated. ATM I'm just looking at M1 macs as a future upgrade, so I can wait, but the time will come when I'll have to change. Shame, as the...

Who ever would have thought that Apple would suddenly go 64bit only. Noit like they gave any advance warning. Is this only affecting CM4, or all the SAi cloudy "goodness"?

We've got a load of sizes of dibond that we use for laminating. When the release film is on, it allows you to tack the front edge of the laminate in place, then remove the laminated printed print. Without the protective film, the laminate takes slightly more time to remove. Just did 40 24x36...

Local bike shops can be a really good source of high quality bike shaped boxen - good for sending out similar shaped items (just tell the client you're being green)

Only tried for half an hour with big sur, seeing whether it would play nicely with the new M1 chips, and was trying to get it to work with CM4. I'll try again at somepoint, when work settles down. I have an account, but it didn't like it. Made a new one under another email address, didn't like...

I tried a few days ago - thought I'd see what an M1 MBP felt like. I Failed. Plugged the 6000 back into an 11 year-old tower running High Sierra*. All good. *EFI would like over £1000 to upgrade to a newer OS for our 44" Canon *xRite would like almost £3000 to upgrade to latest version of...

Down side of the Javelin is when you want to cut an 8x4 down to a 4x4 - need really long arms. Also it doen't have the inbuilt squaring of the steeltrak, but it is really high precision cutting. I reckon that I can get within 1mm on the steeltrak, half that on the bench cutter (have Very picky...

As an interim I'd go for the SteelTrak 250, with some spare production stops and a left hand extension. Fast quick (ish) and clean, with a relatively small footprint. Gives you the option of cutting other materials like PVC, without generating dust. Once volume of work picks up, then a flatbed...

Yep, a Stanley/utility blade isn't right on the cutting bar, Rotatrim or scalpel for thin paper stock, even with a cutting mat under the blade. I'd love a foot pedal option for the cutting table, or just one of the new models with the one sided lift and hover. But, I can accurately take less...

If you're cutting anything thicker than a 16th, then yes. Clean square edged cuts. I inherited a 1600mm big bench with an original Javelin Cutter, when I joined our company. Great for PVC and foam board, and at a push, have used it to cut Dibond (bought a Steeltrack for better productivity)...

March last year, just after UK went into the first lockdown, I helped the building (11 floors) we're based in work out and install the covid safety plan. Directional signs, distancing markers, stairwell directions, perspex screen for the reception etc. In return I got a key to the service yard...

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