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Old 12-09-2013, 01:08 AM
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I'm not giving up.

Who knows....I may even make some more kits available.


Now there's a happy thought!

Not giving up and making more kits available.

Fantastic!
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Old 12-09-2013, 05:44 PM
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Hang in there, Gordon, Again, I thank you for the decals you did for me. I have had a lot of comments on how great they look.
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Old 01-18-2014, 10:26 AM
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Hang in there, Gordon, Again, I thank you for the decals you did for me. I have had a lot of comments on how great they look.
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I do have an extra set of your decals, I made 2 sets.

The extra set has two 'lines" through it. Nothing serious or fatal just not "acceptable" to me.

Everyone has to understand that flaws happen with an Alps printer.

Those familiar with an Alps printer will quickly understand its "quirks".

It's almost as if the d%$n things is "moody". Some days I just have to turn the stupid printer off and quit.

The next day it's in a better mood, I've changed nothing, and it prints great.

A spec of dust, dirt a stay dog, cat or mustache hair easily can get under the printer head and ruin the decal.

Sometimes I can 'overprint" a decal. Black, red and yellow are no problem I can double print those with no issue.

Blue cannot be over printed. It gets way to dark.

Sometimes I can use naphtha and clean the decal sheet and use the paper over again but I still lose valuable ink.

As for custom decals, even if you send me accurate artwork I basically have to "redraw" the decal with all the different layers I need to print correctly.

White has to be printed separately and must be done first on the sheet.

Basically all color including white must have a white undercoat.

This is done on one page or layer. The page is drawn in all black and I just instruct the printer to print "white undercoat".
Then the page is printed and indexed (held) in the machine.

Then for anything in white I have another page also drawn in black and I tell the printer to print the next page over the first page in "single ink, white".

There may be silver or gold metallic colors and these are another overlaid page.

Finally if it makes it through those step I print the final "color" page.

Now after that page is printed I make sure the decal sheet is still held in the printer I have to inspect it to see if I have to "overprint" any flaws.

That finally explained I will have to raise my rates.

Custom work will now require a one time $25 "set up" fee.

Sorry but I have no choice.
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Old 01-18-2014, 11:05 PM
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That finally explained I will have to raise my rates.

Custom work will now require a one time $25 "set up" fee.

Sorry but I have no choice.


Wow. After reading the rest of that I thought to myself "You're way too cheap", and I gained an even bigger appreciation of the 1B decals you created for me. Your work and service is excellent, Gord. I'm sure people will stump up the money if it's what they really want.
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Old 01-19-2014, 09:16 AM
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...Custom work will now require a one time $25 "set up" fee....

you didn't have a setup fee before?

If the process for custom work takes longer than 15-20 minutes, then the fee is still too low. This would also be on top of minimum orders, actual cost of the decal, and shipping amounts.

Your time, experience, and equipment is valuable.
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Old 01-19-2014, 09:21 AM
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you didn't have a setup fee before?

If the process for custom work takes longer than 15-20 minutes, then the fee is still too low. This would also be on top of minimum orders, actual cost of the decal, and shipping amounts.

Your time, experience, and equipment is valuable.


Well, I don't see a new boat purchase in my future.
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Old 01-19-2014, 09:25 AM
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And then sometimes, after 5, 6, 7 or more perfect passes through the machine, on the very last one it decides to run a scratch down the sheet. Or make a boo-boo in that final color.
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Old 01-19-2014, 09:29 AM
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I worked for an airline for a long time and had a boss who used to say: "You know, if we could just stop carrying people all our problems would go away."

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Sorry to hear it...

One thing is for sure-- dealing with people sucks, because MOST PEOPLE SUCK!

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Old 01-19-2014, 09:33 AM
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And then sometimes, after 5, 6, 7 or more perfect passes through the machine, on the very last one it decides to run a scratch down the sheet. Or make a boo-boo in that final color.


Yep!
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Old 01-21-2014, 03:26 PM
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I worked for an airline for a long time and had a boss who used to say: "You know, if we could just stop carrying people all our problems would go away."


Oh geez don't I know it...

I'm ready to sign up for one of those one-way tickets to Mars just to get away from every d@mn body, "society", and especially anything remotely related to the friggin' d@mnable gubmint!!!!

I don't care if the life expectancy on Mars would be 30 minutes-- most of time I think it'd be MORE than well worth it just to be free of the SOB's...

Later! OL JR
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