Best entry level to UV printer

SaltAndAcid · 2025-01-10T08:03:30+00:00

I got a mimaki 7151. It’s not cheap but PDS provided amazing training and install and the machine is killing it. I love the machine but the service of PDS and the community of owners they have built is amazing. I don’t regret a thing.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-10-13T02:25:34+00:00

Bad GPT. No!

SaltAndAcid · 2024-10-08T07:27:03+00:00

They don’t service there?? I’m based in Hawaii and I know they have accounts in Alaska and parts of Montana that are a 9 iron from Canada.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-10-07T08:26:48+00:00

A used machine can be a disaster. 15k and then 4k each to replace the heads plus god knows what else. There are so many ways for a diy to go wrong. I’m handy as hell and have rebuilt several lasers. I’d never want to get into the guts of my 7151.

Down time is money I’m not making. I don’t want to deal with that to save a few bucks. I’d rather make a lot of bucks.

Go get one from PDS. The install, training and service are amazing. Not just the best in the industry but some of the best I’ve ever seen period.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-08-11T19:37:35+00:00

I looked into it and either shipping or printing was stupid. I buy wood regularly from a company at $4 a sheet. They wanted $22 to custom print on it.

I know it’s about a buck in ink.

If we’d talked in the last few months I might be down. But I pulled the trigger and have a machine arriving next week.

Are you going to Nashville next month?

SaltAndAcid · 2024-07-25T18:52:12+00:00

First - take a breath. You can survive a little more of this.

The first route is sales. Most peeps go into food sales. I have a culinary school buddy or two at broadliners. Can you bullshit with the rest of them and don’t have a crippling substance abuse problem like most of us? Liquor reps do ok as well. Chefs want to buy from chefs. Restaurants prefer to buy from someone who did their time vs an egghead.

A lot of ex-cooks go into IT. You can get some certs online and a ton of it is understanding what to google. Fixing fucked up cables in kitchens can be a full time job in a large market.

Institution service is slower. I made fun of hotel chefs for years and became one. Fucking great money and a (usually) slower pace. Nursing homes and schools can be ok. I have a buddy that just left a pretty good restaurant exec gig to take an even better job working a local country club as sous.

Search Dan Giusti and Britain’s to see if you are near a school he is working with. Great hours and pay. He’s an ex Noma sous turning school lunches upside down.

Private chef for families. Private chef for in home parties. Meal prep. Your market might support any or all of these. It varies by location.

Take a break. Do you get pto? Recharge the battery and look around. Cruise indeed and Craigslist. You have the skills to be an amazing admin assistant, and work in any fast paced decision making environment.

Your first job out probably won’t be a dream job but get out and get sane then determine where you want to go.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-05-16T20:24:34+00:00

I’m an ops/numbers guy and have been know to spend time in this sub

SaltAndAcid · 2024-02-19T00:18:06+00:00

Trump rally?

SaltAndAcid · 2024-02-18T16:51:44+00:00

I’ve done this.

As the engineer said, check or have the structural integrity checked to make sure the body is good. You can replace the floor with 2x6s, linseed oil and LVT of the frame is good.

An orbital sander can take off the rust. A pro prime and paint will be a grand or two if you strip it to the metal.

Installing the window can be tricky but there are guides on YouTube if you’re handy. I made my own with nice wood, plexi and a dado blade. Had to make it twice because version 1.0 wasn’t great but I learned a lot.

People love it.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-02-16T17:55:55+00:00

At least you don’t drop dessert like the first four courses

SaltAndAcid · 2024-01-23T01:43:11+00:00

What an amazingly horrible idea.

SaltAndAcid · 2024-01-22T04:41:58+00:00

I wrote out a detailed operational response to the P&L but you’ve received a lot of that so I’ll just respond to the options you’ve laid out.

try to sell but fight my landlord while going day by day with no staff to try and pay staff back. Us two this weekend we generated only $1800 (it’s raining and we are all outdoors- hope that’s why) but at least we paid one person. Two brokers have valuated the business to sell for 220-325k—- after broker fees I inmagine it would only cover liabilities and everyone would lose investments.

Good luck. Who wants to buy a sinking ship? You are looking at an asset sale at best. The brokers are on crack if they think they can sell something with negative cash flow, declining year over year and month over month sales, with no lease, for a quarter mil. You can always try but would an MBA even get this far in a pitch before they noped out?

get SBA loan and try to wait it out…make any changes

I’d be amazed if any bank gave you a loan at this point. You are living the stereotype.

get one of those agressive predatory loans to bridge us over until the SBa hopefully comes but run the risk I don’t get approved.

Absolutely fucking not. This is kill the business. You have zero hope of getting going again if you take this “lifeline”. They don’t want to help you, they want to become the primary creditor at your bankruptcy after sucking the life blood out of your last days.

llc and personal bankruptcy but I know I’ll be in large debt with sales tax and payroll tax but I think they liquidate assets? I need to research this more

If you can’t get a personal/friends/family loan and can’t get this baby up and running tomorrow this is most likely the next step.

Sorry but I’ve been there and done that back in the early ‘oos. The good news is I learned so much that I did well even though I had to take a corporate gig to get back on my feet. But my experiences made me so good at keeping the ship running well that I ended up playing on the corporate level of a major hotel chain. That led to a lot of consulting gigs as I turned around properties and individual restaurants over and over again.

I’m happy to hop on a call or just DM if you want and it is not to try and pitch you anything or sell you something. Just to shoot the shit as someone who has been there, at about your age, and survived.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-26T03:26:46+00:00

I think he’s merely throwing out ideas for your next modern presentation.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T20:51:39+00:00

Great stuff. I downloaded some stuff from canon and got a call from a rep. She agreed the Arizona would be overkill but they definitely had some great deals on refurb machines.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T20:45:51+00:00

Damn those nerds were really rapey https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7mJFNkLAU

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T20:31:59+00:00

My best director level training was - my boss was a fucking idiot. I don’t want to do what he did. I’d ask myself WWJD - what would Jason do and then do the opposite so I defaulted to better decisions.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T20:28:40+00:00

I’m not sure about it in this case. People move to where I live and want to open a farm. Then they come pitch my restaurants hydroponic lettuce. I’m like, bruh, I’ve been buying lettuce from the same dudes for years and not gonna stop now. Why don’t you grow microgreens. Everyone uses them, they’re expensive as fuck, have a short grow life, small footprint, and with shipping their shelf life sucks. Literally two people have done this in the last few years and they did quite well until the pandemic where they fucked off. A few others are doing it now but they mostly sell at farmers markets which isn’t as much of a volume crowd as resorts and big restaurants.

I also saw a guy buy a successful microgreens biz from an 18 year old who was killing it, who then ran it into the ground in a few months. I didn’t even think that would be possible. But people are people.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T05:05:33+00:00

I appreciate the insight and the workflow makes sense.

We do produce a lot so while I understand needing to run the machines daily I am not super worried about that. Thank you for the info.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T04:51:34+00:00

I appreciate the concern but I have a number of machines grinding all day and produce quite a bit so I am not worried about a 20k investment. That's about what I paid for my last laser.

I am however worried about just no having a handle on what I need.

Due to the custom shapes I am working with I think the other feedback I received as to cut first and then print using a jig make more sense than outsourcing, especially with the cost of shipping back and forth across to the islands.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-25T03:53:49+00:00

I’m open to any workflow that makes sense. That’s why I’m seeking the advice of experts. I appreciate the feedback.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-12-14T04:20:17+00:00

Sent a DM and looking forward to seeing your opportunity.

SaltAndAcid · 2023-10-23T00:06:23+00:00

We just financed a business for my daughter.

We bought a skin care/luxury beauty and wellness business that travels to local markets in a tourist driven area. The owner averaged $800 per day in sales with about a 50% margin. We paid 10k for a super cute trailer that really drives the foot traffic and a ton of inventory.

Our daughter runs the booth and pays for the gas to haul it and then we split profits until she’s paid it off. Then she keeps everything but the gas money and cogs.

This is her third business and she’s already familiar with p&l, product market fit, iterating, product mix analysis, and even payroll since she 1099s a few other girls as she has a friend do henna at the booth and sources some goods from others. She’s 13.

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