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« Last post by mk162 on Yesterday at 12:51:08 PM »
So, how is everyone doing? We are even with last year but with fewer employees. It never really slowed down and our contract numbers are up and retail is down. We get a lot of "Our old printer isn't in business anymore."
We have some huge contract projects in the works that could make the last quarter of this year bigger than the total of last year.
Our largest contract customer fell off of a cliff, another has more work that we can handle. It's been a crazy year so far.
We are up a bit from last year, and last year was a great year. It seems like when one customer leaves, a bigger one replaces them.
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« Last post by 1964GN on Yesterday at 11:45:26 AM »
So, how is everyone doing? We are even with last year but with fewer employees. It never really slowed down and our contract numbers are up and retail is down. We get a lot of "Our old printer isn't in business anymore."
We have some huge contract projects in the works that could make the last quarter of this year bigger than the total of last year.
Our largest contract customer fell off of a cliff, another has more work that we can handle. It's been a crazy year so far.
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« Last post by 1964GN on Yesterday at 11:38:05 AM »
I have started using ChatGPT to remove back grounds and make some changes, then in PS beta I use Generative Upscale to clean it up. OR I just send it out for a vector redraw. We are very upfront with our customers on what quality is acceptable, and what is not, and what the cost will be. Most have said things like "I just whipped it up with AI. I knew it might not be usable." Either way, art fees are added.
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« Last post by blue moon on Yesterday at 03:45:43 AM »
This was many years ago and we are in a new building now so cant go and check.
From what i remember, i searched for some led lights that were on a warmer side and might have had some info on light distribution. Then used a spectrophotometer to confirm and it was almost all above 420nm. So we left them without filters and used that way for at least a decade. We did also try the coin exposure test and found out that it took almost 6 hours to see any difference.
We did split the dark room into two sections. One was for storing screens and had almost no light, the working part for imaging used the lights mentioned above. If you want to check, i can probably mail you the spectrophotometer when i return to US.
Currently (new space) all the imaging is done in the open. Screens are stored in a covered rack. They are out in the open while the cts is going, but it does not seem to matter that much.
Pierre
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« Last post by mk162 on July 01, 2026, 03:33:20 PM »
We used the 35% VLT film i believe. It's noticeably dimmer, but workable over the yellow lights.
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« Last post by ebscreen on July 01, 2026, 01:32:14 PM »
Update.
The 40 watt LED panels, 12' above, completely exposed a 305 mesh screen in 6 hours.
That surprised me, but I suppose it shouldn't, time being the huge factor here. Probably fine for brief
exposure but clearly not going to work for storage.
For now we're going back to the yellow fluorescent tube covers. From my reading, above ~400nm is visible light,
so by my thinking to block visible light will have a visible effect, IE working under that gdamn bug light.
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« Last post by mk162 on July 01, 2026, 10:54:36 AM »
Gut it out and install an led unit. Less, heat, less electric, less bulb replacements…
Pierre
This is what we did on our Amergraph 755k. It was a 7500 watt bulb on a 60a 230 service. Now it's 110v 20a service, shared with other devices. Still does a screen a minute, set 3ft from the bulb so I run them 2-up.
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« Last post by blue moon on June 30, 2026, 05:01:20 PM »
Gut it out and install an led unit. Less, heat, less electric, less bulb replacements…
Pierre
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« Last post by mk162 on June 29, 2026, 09:17:49 AM »
If they have the troffer style, put some UV film on the inside of the light diffuser. It's cheap and works great. Might run $20-30 for a some pieces big enough
Now I'm going down a rabbit hole of window films I didn't know existed. I might apply this stuff to all the skylights,
I kinda worry about sun damage to inks and thread and whatnot.
We ended up putting a light coat of white spray paint on the inside of our skylights. They were crystal clear and you'd get a sunburn hanging out under one.
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« Last post by ebscreen on June 26, 2026, 12:32:16 PM »
If they have the troffer style, put some UV film on the inside of the light diffuser. It's cheap and works great. Might run $20-30 for a some pieces big enough
Now I'm going down a rabbit hole of window films I didn't know existed. I might apply this stuff to all the skylights, I kinda worry about sun damage to inks and thread and whatnot.
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