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by Richard Photofusion
Fri 14 Aug, 2020 11:08 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Bubbling!
Replies: 9
Views: 2860

Re: Bubbling!

I've mounted thousands of prints using our JM44. We prep our own selfadhesive board, using adhesive from Hotpress. Papers ranging from 34gsm Kozo up to 340gsm alpha cellulose. Only times we've had bubbling have been down to either user error (normally pressure too low/uneven) or dodgy rolls of adhes...
by Richard Photofusion
Sat 01 Aug, 2020 7:28 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Bendy bevel cuts
Replies: 13
Views: 4495

Re: Bendy bevel cuts

They realy are in a very small, elite league.

I'd add Rotatrim, and of course uncle Steve.
by Richard Photofusion
Thu 30 Jul, 2020 11:37 am
Forum: Help!
Topic: Left hand Morso extension droops a little bit.
Replies: 10
Views: 2793

Re: Left hand Morso extension droops a little bit.

Aluminium. Beer cans, cheap and expensive - tend to be slightly different thicknesses. Airline drinks cans, thicker still (do airlines still have drinks...?)
Credit to Robert Pirsig.
by Richard Photofusion
Mon 22 Jun, 2020 10:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!
Replies: 23
Views: 8337

Re: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!

Agreed, a lot of the vinyl is rather tacky. This year I would have liked to go to Sign and Print, or even Fespa, to actually test what some of the larger format machines can do, at close inspection. A lot of what I make is designed to be seen at close distance, invites close scrutiny. That's where l...
by Richard Photofusion
Mon 22 Jun, 2020 8:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The preocupasion of some customers with narrow mouldings on excessively large mouldings.
Replies: 3
Views: 2071

Re: The preocupasion of some customers with narrow mouldings on excessively large mouldings.

I'd put part of the blame on the obsession with thin, and bigger screens and thinner bezels on phones, tablets, computer screens and televisions. This is the fashion, and I suspect it is edging into framing. That it isn't really practical from an engineering point of view is rather unfortunate, but ...
by Richard Photofusion
Mon 22 Jun, 2020 7:23 pm
Forum: Adverts/Sales/Wants
Topic: Canon Pro 4000 for Sale
Replies: 2
Views: 1227

Re: Canon Pro 4000 for Sale

Not a bad price, particularly if that is the take up reel lurking behind the catching basket. Might be worth posting a service nozzle check, as well as the ink pumped through the L&R head. I'd be tempted, but I'm now looking at the HPz9+DR and or a larger format Eco Solvent or Latex. Repeats to ...
by Richard Photofusion
Mon 22 Jun, 2020 7:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!
Replies: 23
Views: 8337

Re: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!

Part of the theatre of presentation is the tactile nature of the object, in the customers hand. The heft of the paper, the weight of the frame, the subtle resistance of the wind on mechanism of the Leica, or the unboxing of the Veblen gadget. But equally we have the smoke and mirrors approach of the...
by Richard Photofusion
Sun 21 Jun, 2020 10:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!
Replies: 23
Views: 8337

Re: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!

Whilst talking to myself, at the London Art Fair last year, I was rather taken with some seamless quite wide, beautifully finished black frames. Thoroughly complimented the grand scale photographs within them. The artist had both taste, and a fitting budget. My flippant response to the budget framin...
by Richard Photofusion
Sun 21 Jun, 2020 8:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!
Replies: 23
Views: 8337

Re: Idea for novel appraoch...feedback please!

Ah, but take the mdf carcas, and vacuum form styrene with an inbetwixt film of of araldite, no, PVA, then wrap the surface with monomeric, or cast vinyl of you choice.

Polychromatic colour change picture frames.

OK, about this wheel thing, what colour do you think it should be?
by Richard Photofusion
Fri 19 Jun, 2020 10:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Paperweights?
Replies: 15
Views: 5758

Re: Paperweights?

Used blades, still using them for weights as well, while trying to work out what to do with them. A box of old hard drives - incredibly dense, still waiting to be fully decommissioned before disposal. As they can't be used for anything technological, I guess they qualify as paperweights. Show and te...
by Richard Photofusion
Thu 18 Jun, 2020 7:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Paperweights?
Replies: 15
Views: 5758

Re: Paperweights?

Handywrapped stacks of 2mm aluminium, mostly 5x4", but sets going all the way up to 16x20". Very useful for taming prints from the 44" printer. Start with corners and edge centres held down by 5x4 stacks, then if the paper is still curly (and some of the alpha cellulose materials are ...
by Richard Photofusion
Thu 21 May, 2020 2:44 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: New member and would be grateful for some assitance!
Replies: 20
Views: 7151

Re: New member and would be grateful for some assitance!

Lockable Heavy duty castors under all the wheels! All my benches are on wheels - makes life so much easier when a tricky shaped job comes through. Printers, laminator, benches, rolls of laminates and vinyls, all mobile, even some of the shelving racks. Only a few 8' cupboards the Steeltrak and a ser...
by Richard Photofusion
Wed 06 May, 2020 12:38 pm
Forum: Business Matters
Topic: Web Cam for Zoom based design consulations
Replies: 4
Views: 3352

Re: Web Cam for Zoom based design consulations

£400 looks a bit steep, but if normality resumes, could you repurpose the webcam to work with visualisation software? I think presentation matters - I've repurposed an old ZoomH2 recorder as input mic on my computer, and the audio difference on Zoom and Teams calls is very real (a colleague describe...
by Richard Photofusion
Mon 13 Apr, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Large format printers
Replies: 4
Views: 2663

Re: Large format printers

As you're already running D700's (I'm looking at getting one of those, or a D800 for our film processing activities, once the times return), then I guess that you've got work flow already sorted out. Epson printers are great work horses, they just like to be exercised. I know plenty of printers who ...
by Richard Photofusion
Sun 12 Apr, 2020 10:27 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: Large format printers
Replies: 4
Views: 2663

Re: Large format printers

Welcome to a world of fun. If you can find a way to stretch to a new machine, then I'd strongly consider it. Alternatively, Epson, Canon and HP have all recently brought out new models, and there are plenty of ex-demo units in the supply chain. These'll come with a vendor warranty of sorts, along wi...
by Richard Photofusion
Thu 09 Apr, 2020 7:33 pm
Forum: After Hours
Topic: Ideas for funerals
Replies: 21
Views: 25952

Re: Ideas for funerals

Nick, I'm in agreement with you. Talk of mortality is something that we're not terribly good at. I read Keith's post as an honest approach to a difficult subject. People are being left in a postion where they are not able to say goodbye. Talking and planning for scenarios which may come about, even ...
by Richard Photofusion
Tue 31 Mar, 2020 10:36 pm
Forum: Help!
Topic: I know there has been questions on price before BUT!!
Replies: 10
Views: 4680

Re: I know there has been questions on price before BUT!!

I've sent a number of aluminium mounted baryta prints to a few client's framers. We'd bill the client around £300 for the print and mount @ A0, and on several occassions, clients told me that framing, similar to your spec cost 2-3X what the print production cost! We're also south London, though the ...
by Richard Photofusion
Fri 27 Mar, 2020 8:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Air canisters
Replies: 16
Views: 8118

Re: Air canisters

Oh, that is. Looked into them years ago, but got distracted. All the man made materials I work with, particualrly Forex Classic, and DiBond are static bunnies, worse still when you peel the release film off. I need one of those guns in my life. And some tinsel. And it would be a massive boon for the...
by Richard Photofusion
Wed 25 Mar, 2020 8:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Air canisters
Replies: 16
Views: 8118

Re: Air canisters

Spoke accepted. In my case, it is large prints on Baryta paper, mounted onto 3mm Dibond - even when dry, they are scarey fragile, but a mid powered air jet causes them no harm. Some of the frames I've put the mounted prints into, I've met 2, 3, perhaps even four times, and the Dibond loves to genera...
by Richard Photofusion
Tue 24 Mar, 2020 7:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Air canisters
Replies: 16
Views: 8118

Re: Air canisters

If you don't have a comprepssor, then probably. I assemble very few frames, but when I do, they are often big, and for a regular gallery client, I dissassemble and fit work we've printed and mounted. On a single 1000x1500 frame, I can easily empty the 20l compressor. 10% goes on the print surface, 4...