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  1. 2 points
    Problem solved! Scott, sell your stuff to Julian! Yah ... printer in the bedroom ... no-go. Hahaha. You can get some reclaimed quality time and floor space
  2. 1 point
    Sign vinyls (if not mistaken) are pressure sensitive. The more you squeegee with pressure, the more it adheres to the substrate or surface you are applying to.
  3. 1 point
    For me, speed and force will be determined by design, vinyl type, and vinyl color.
  4. 1 point
    we all did - heck I started with a $250 sunie press before moving onto several hotronix and a knight - I used to find deals on hotronix swingers that would only go to the "Hello" screen and freeze there = after getting a bargain would fix them 2 years of vocational electronics training has paid dividends
  5. 1 point
    I used to use strong magnets to hold the teflon on the top platen - then got the hotronix with the teflon covers and love it. if you do sublimation make sure you get some butcher paper to change between presses as the ink outgasses and attaches to anything near by including teflon and then re sublimates on a later press
  6. 1 point
    LOL! I did the same thing with the same thought as you. it helps a lot more that I can say. I have a local seamstress that is willing to put the stretch ends on for $10 so I am still coming out cheaper. Look on AMZ as I spent $9 for 3 large sheets.
  7. 1 point
    If she is ready then that just about answers that and she wants some cutter gone. Happy wife and all that...LOL I have been thinking about expanding myself to a printer in about 6 months or so. Still having to fight for clients from the stay-at-home moms that are flooding the market right now. Putting myself in your shoes, I would cut back, enjoy my trips with the wife without having to worry about the equipment and smell the roses! I know I just enjoyed my 2 weeks in Seattle/Vancouver/Alaska with the wife. Time is one thing you cannot get back so enjoy it if you have the chance.
  8. 1 point
    I always tell our customers to wait 2 days before washing
  9. 1 point
    There is no typical settings. Each cutter is different, even the same model. You have to fine tune each cutter, Value cutters may have to be fine tuned each time you cut. The higher end cutters, pretty much set and forget, unless you are changing to different thickness of vinyl. You may to make several passes on some of those vinyls like glitter. I hear it's pretty hard to cut. The force is set by the blade depth. You must get the blade depth correct first, for each different vinyl you use. Then you set the force to make it cut correctly.
  10. 1 point
    Are you getting enough orders to make enough money to keep up with the maintenance of the printer and still making a good income? Are you making enough money for your time? Are you getting older(yes) and wanting more time for yourself and the wife? Tough questions!!! I have been slowing down myself and picking only the jobs that won't be pushing me too hard due to the old back getting worse. All I can say is weigh all the facts and pros and cons and then just go for it and don't look back. Enjoy life!!!
  11. 1 point
    Sell only if you absolutely must - a. you totally don't have the room for it; b. you're getting something better; c. you're in the poor house and are about to be homeless; or d. your house looks like it should be put on the TV show Hoarders: Buried Alive
  12. 1 point
    I`m in the same boat Scott, want to devote more time to doing CNC work. mark-s
  13. 1 point
    decided to try pressing another shirt with the green but i did it at 335 degrees 15 secs and this is how it turned out. ive only worn it about 2 hours while doing things outside its hot out and so far it seems okay maybe they just needed more temp sorry its sideways it looked right on my pc The wet looking dots are water drops i took then when i came in from watering the yard about 30 mins after i did it
  14. 1 point
    I have been using them for over 10 years - any business that sells thousands of plotters will have a few unhappy campers and they are usually the ones to post more. other companies have tried to run forums to allow users to help each other out all hours of the night and weekends when support isn't around. to my knowledge no other ones are anywhere near this big and most have closed the forums so no after hours support. read all the post from the thousands of users on here and make your own decision - for me I have bought a few plotters from uscutter over the years as I upgraded
  15. 1 point
    good quality work and time - there are probably 100,000 + people with plotters not including the cricut crowd and they all try facebook, ebay, etsy, and their own web pages - it takes some time to build a good reputation but only a second to have a bad one or be known for working for free. I have approached several local businesses that were in need of updating when I started and got several good accounts that way besides word of mouth from people that buy. funny thing is the more work you sell that looks good the more the word spreads that brings in the type of work you want. I saw someone hawking their wares on a local facebook group and it was very apparent she was tracing other peoples art (even the fonts) and it looked like crap. she will sell a few because she was selling cheap but won't be around 6 months to a year from now
  16. 1 point
    Let's just sweep this under the rug... move along, nothing to see here folks...