Economic Use of Trasparencies Sheets

Hi Gravers,
I am one frugal engraver in the use of materials at the bench.
I'm sure the old gravers know this but the beginner would like a good tip.
Transparencies are expensive and can raise your prices without you
wanting it to. I don't usually have enough engraving to do at any one time
to fill up a full sheet. I find it annoying to throw out useable material.
With a little thought I came up with this. Put your designs at the
bottom of the sheet. Save the art work to files for next job. Use the
previous job to tell you where you have printed and cut off the designs.
Put your new work above the old work, delete the old work, and
print the short sheet. Do the same for the next job.
Your printer doesn't care how short the sheet is, and you can use the
same sheet multiple times. Cutting the prices over all of your cost
of your engraving. I think a good term for this is short sheeting.
Jim



Jim Zimmerman
Alpine Custom Jewellers & Repair
http://www.handengravingcanada.com

Another Way

You can also print out your items on EXEL. I import the item into EXEL and move the image all the way to the top. I also eliminate the margins left, right and top. My Epson clear sheets have that little corner cut off to indicate how to put the material in the printer which is the corner on the upper right when facing the printer (Epson 66). The image will print on the first part of the sheet and just trim it off and put the sheet back. The cut corner is in the same place.

Transparency

To get the most out of a sheet of transparency. First print a copy of the pattern on the printer. Second, cut out a peice of transparency large enough to cover the printed pattern and tape it over the printed pattern. Put the sheet with the transfer on it in the paper infeed and run a print onto the transfer.

Roger

Like it

Roger, I like it. I will give that a try today. Never thought of it. +4 new ideas from the forum. Thanks Sam.

Roger: You get a gold star for that idea! I've been doing what Jim does to conserve that buck-a-sheet (give or take) transparency material, and your idea is especially good when the sheets become pieces that are too small to feed. Of course we still need to keep track of which side to print on. Thanks for a great idea. / ~Sam

rhenrichs said:

To get the most out of a sheet of transparency. First print a copy of the pattern on the printer. Second, cut out a peice of transparency large enough to cover the printed pattern and tape it over the printed pattern. Put the sheet with the transfer on it in the paper infeed and run a print onto the transfer.

Roger

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I spend way too much time on this forum, but the information that is flowing forth from these participating members in way too valueable to miss.
Sam, You have created a bonanza!!
Great job.

Nice trade

Hi Roger,
Nice swap of information. Stay tuned kids, new topic tomorrow.
Jim


Jim Zimmerman
Alpine Custom Jewellers & Repair
www.hand engraving canada.com

I tried it

Hi Roger,
I tried this new method this morning . I am one happy graver.
The works extremely well.
Jim

Jim,
Glad I could help. Works good if you remember to get the paper in the infeed try the right way around.

Roger