The Framers Forum

If your customer is a regular, or might become one, someone who'll come back to you for your services, then it might be worth losing the "commission" on this sale, for the sake of goodwill (unless they have many more offspring, in which case Mark's advice would make even more sense). When ...

^^^ Shortly after we bought our steeltrak, I asked them if there was a way to support substrates that weren't using the twin wheels. Couple of days later, a package arrived with the support. Oh, Steeltrak has production stops - any chance of this for the Javelin Big Bench? Codlaparw production stops...

(Big) if this is a low value, lots of spares available poster, then it might be worth trying to iron, with a slim piece of slightly damp mountboard between the iron and the print, possibly with an equally not quite dry sheet of board below. Essentially localised steam treatment. I'm not suggesting t...

Yes, DIY - unless it's wildly different from the SteelTrak (which we've moved three or four times), then very straightforward. Two or three people helps, as does having room to navigate the machine through assembly.

Keencut write good instruction sets.

Contact Lion - their customer service is very good - they are the supplier, and will help.
Contact Keencut - their customer service is very good - they are the manufacturer, and have a reputation to preserve.

Then tell us the outcome!

They are psychotic little buggers who like nothing better than to try to rip your thumb open, when you try to take the frame apart.

Apart from that, nowt wrong.

I'll add that the SteelTrak also requires mindful attention when cutting glass (at least, without the additional glass cutting kit), to avoid an additional curved bit on the LHS.

We've been slightly lazy, and use PayPal for our merchant services - less than a minute to send an invoice. All clients either pay on order, or at time of collection. Paypal does allow payment over the phone, or by contactless / C&P Haven't had a card terminal charged up and running, since March...

We're acting like a takeaway - drop and collect from our kerbside. Any conversations happening over phone / email / zoom. Everything by appointment.

Click and collect could also be call and collect - customer makes an order and collects from the kerbside.

Although the videos are over 10 years old, nothing has changed - the press still works the same, and adhesives are not really any different. For years we followed the using of carrier boards for lamination, still do for >40" prints. For smaller pieces, we now do what the signmakers do, and have...

If you know anything about music, you know this quote: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? It might look easy but there is a lot of practice to make it look (or sound) good. There is another factor in that a trained person will know how to recover from their mistakes. There is nothing wrong with learn...

Hej Marko,

You might want to check out uksignboards for a heated laminator; your budget is on the low side for a V good condition machine.

The Drytac range are generally pretty good. Steve Goodall at Wessex Oldham is the expert. For mounting to "normal" materials, the regular self wound film is your go to. Conforms well, great with matt and lustre materials. Save the acrylic for polyester based gloss materials. For this you w...

Ultra glossy materials want to go on ultra smooth substrates - Aluminium, DiBond or acrylic. Foam based materials won't work. As your print material is .8mm thick, it will pick up undulations in the sintra and create the waves/dimples shown (signs101). My vote would be a quality 3mm ACM, with optica...

I'd always take care about using tack cloths near glass - the glue residue has a habit of leaving streaks, which then needs IPA to remove. Useful for cleaning down surfaces, and almost essential when cold mounting / laminating. Also, the fibers from the cloth snag easily on the insides of wooden fra...

Part of the problem is dust in the environment - we do relatively little frame assembly, far more printing mounting and laminating. Stage 1: hoover and mop. We're lucky - hard floor surfaces allow us to both. We also have the benches topped with 8x4 polypropylene sheets. These get wiped over first w...

Perhaps it has to be hung from rod(s) or cable(s)? In that case, strap hangers - rod (or cable) to each one. If only one rod/cable is permitted in this game, then perhaps a magical stong beam, connected to the strap hangers might do the trick. Strap hangers around 20% of the way down. How heavy is a...

If there is tissue in the roll, then I'll leave it there when first detubing the print, to reduce the chance of scuffing. I always advise clients that if they want me to send prints to framers, that we leave a handling border in place. When decurling prints, if the surface is fragile, I'll tend to s...

Contact Keencut - they've got amazing aftersales service. I'd be very surprised if they don't have spares for the bench. https://www.keencut.com/contact-us/

Sorry, somehow missed those videos. While the technique might be fine for posters, please don't ever handle matt pigment inkjet prints like that, unless I've printed them, and you want to buy a reprint. Fingers dragged over large dark areas of matt rag paper = scuff marks. Acutally, I'll extend that...