It always happens when I travel.   Some sort of adventure, an experience, a tale to tell. The trip for a VersaCAMM installation in Maine this week was no exception   It started like most – an early morning airport flight with layovers and all the joy that comes with it (note heavy sarcasm here). On the last leg of my flight I was privileged to sit next to Lance Corporal Mitchell Jameson. This young man was on his way home...

We all struggle to make the time to learn and create great products for our customers. Sometimes the answer to the next big thing is as simple as utilizing a feature or technique on a piece of equipment we already have. Today’s post is about just that – using the Roland VersaCAMM to produce die cut, finished edge graphics that are suitable for point of purchase displays and more. With a few fairly simple steps and a bit of...

  Imagine this scenario – you just got on site after driving 30 minutes to install a graphic for the customer and find out one of the tools you need isn’t with you. A 60 minute round trip for the tool seems like a great waste of your day! I have run into it myself and recently when one of the girls in Jen’s shop grabbed the install bucket to do a job, they found that there was a tape measure missing from the kit we...

I see it all the time – a misunderstanding of what DPI and PPI mean and why they are important to us. They seem to get interchanged often and become a blurry idea of what our graphics are. When it comes time for the shop to print an image, the assumption is that everything is perfect for what we need at the final output. We need to have a good understanding of what these two terms are, and more importantly, how they affect us in the print...

I wasn’t ready for it. Of course I don’t think anyone really is. Where did all the time go? How did I get to be so old? OK maybe I am not that old but sometimes it feels like it. My daughter graduated from high school this last weekend. It all makes Fathers Day this year feel a little different. It’s amazing how much we teach our children: right from wrong, how to behave, and the nuances of life. Truth be told, I have learned far more...

The Roland BN20 Versastudio printer is a great addition to the already amzing line of Roland pructs on the market. It has a print and cut area of 20 inches and is compact enough that it can fit just about everywhere. With the addition of metallic ink and now an option to do white ink instead, this little beast is helping many shops open up into a market that was previously not attainable due to price. The biggest complaint I have heard on...

Well sort of….. you can learn how to make a shirt with heat transfer films  by watching the video in this post. I will take you from design to finished garment while talking about the details of “how-to” along the way. First we need a design to work with. I got ya covered – just watch the video and subscribe to the StevenJacksonIW YouTube channel and I will send you the file for free. Next you need some media to cut...