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Welcome from Virginia. Plenty to read and learn here. Try the search feature and see what you find. Jimmy

Nice work, that aged look you were after really came out nice. Jimmy

I have a DC4 and run mostly between 11200 and 11800 never needed higher than that. Not sure how high you can go. What problems are you having running the density up might not be the cure. Jimmy

If he printed 920 sq feet he had the dongle. A set of ribbons will print about 350 square feet depending on how you print. So he went through a bunch of material. As good as Summa's support is I just don't see them telling him they won't take care of the dongle problem when he got the machine...

Its what you need and it works fine. I design in Corel Draw and send everything to the printer with color control. No need to look for others I don't think there are any. Jimmy

Before you jump into a printer try farming out your printed decals for a while. Depending on what you need to print will determine the process you need. If you need white on clear material then you need to go thermal. If you need chrome or hot pink then thermal is the way to go. If you need full...

It is finished and up and running. Took longer than I thought to get it done. Work kept getting in the way of getting it finished. I am using V-carve Pro and Mach3 to run it. I cut every piece of scrap material I can find and getting used to the software and what to do with various materials...

Welcome to Signs 101. Well as far as modern equipment goes plotters, printers, and cnc routers seem to be the must haves. Jimmy

Figure on 2.50 a square foot on the summa. Depending on your volume a better network of suppliers may be a better solution. I have done well with my Summa and it fits what I do and the amount of printing I do. Mine may run every day or sit for two weeks and not print at all so the thermal is a...

Doug I got a lot of good info from this site on feeds, speeds, and tooling for cutting plastics. http://www.plasticrouting.com/ Jimmy

Well there are a few more things to look at. If you invest 20K to get into printing what is your printer payment each month? How much printing do you out source each month? How much printing would you need to do to cover the printer payment, the materials and the labor to do the print work every...

Well my project router is progressing well and i need to start getting a basic collection of bits together. I have made some request for catalogs and the Amana one has shown up. The first thing I am going to order is a spoil board cutter and go from there. I want to get some feed back from you...

Have made some progress. I have painted most of it and gotten a lot done on the gantry. I am still waiting on the rails and blocks for the Y axis and they are due tomorrow. I have started on some of the wiring while waiting on other parts to get here. I hope to have the money together next week...

If you call Summa the sales folks have a list of price per square foot based on the various materials. They will also send you samples of the prints on the media the offer. One thing you may want to do is send them a file to run a test print based on what you do most. If its full color to put on...

I have a lot of work for the Summa and for what I do the thermal is better. I farm out the banner printing and the big stuff that is better done on a solvent printer. There are places that both shine and you need to make a list of everything you plan to have the printer do and put two colums...

Clean cut used to give a discount to signs 101 folks. Doesn't matter though they last and cut great and the service and price are good. All I ask now is for the total don't worry about the price. Jimmy

Progress report for last night. I was time to hand work the beds for the X axis rails. I coated them with machine blue and used one of the guide rails to span from side to side and put sand paper under the rail and high spotted the rails. The tops were better than I thought they were going to be...

I was thinking the same thing on the weight. All the box tube is 1/4" wall and the angle for the shelf on the bottom is 1 1/2 X 1/4" The cross braces for the table are 3 X3/8" angle. It may be close to a 1000 pounds so far. Jimmy

Got a lot done and have the frame all welded and getting started on the rails. Take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks Jimmy

I learned to cut metal by hand in the mid 70's and have stayed with it ever since. All machinist should be brought up that way. That is the same era I was first exposed to making signs and all layouts were done by hand. That was my job, drawing letters on plywood or metal sheets to be cut out. I...