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As of September 15th The BrickEngraver will offer a service that will further add to the customization market for AFOL's. From the guy who brought you engraved bricks for badges and all kinds of things y'all come up with, comes BRICK PRINTING. I (...) (16 years ago, 24-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) !
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| | Re: Official New Service Announcement From The BrickEngraver--LONG
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(...) Thanks, Tommy. So, it is a 4c process but needs to be printed on white elements only? Is that correct? If so, is there a 5c process available where the 5th color could be white and the 4c printing would print over it? Another question: Why (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) They do indeed have a 5 color process that prints white also, but it uses UV light to cure the white "basecoat" and then prints to the white and uses a uv cure for that also. With that process they can achieve higher film builds since UV will (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I'd be more interested if I thought that would ever ship the items I ordered and asked for. What's it been now, 3 years? 4 years? and I'm still waiting. Does everyone have to wait this long, or do you dislike only me for some reason? Paul (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Tommy, Out of curiosity, what about printing on clear window panes? would that work? I would think that you might be able to print on both sides of a window pane, giving 2x capacity. (not to mention all the fun LEGO scenes you could "draw" on (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Paul is absolutely correct. I owe him stuff for a long time. I come up with an idea and he jumps on it and I have never followed through with him. Hopefully he has never paid me for anything he has not received--but I will confess. It is (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I did not have time to actually test clear parts. They said it would not work, But did say that would create a nice stain glass effect--which makes sense. And could be actually used for some very nice effects. Clear panels very well might (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Actually, the ability to do that is rather rare. Actually, closer to non-existent in my experience. So bravo for saying it (this is coming from someone who *has* had custom orders go through just fine). On the original subject, this actually (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Official New Service Announcement From The BrickEngraver--LONG
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(...) Back in the late 60's or early 70's a guy name Steve Brand (this if from memory) came out with The Whole Earth Catalog--An Access to Tools. Big rage in the hippie/design/commune/techno geeky subcultures. He essentially provided a source for (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) Whole Earth Catalog> by Stewart Brand (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve/Stewart not bad for 40 years of being in a muddled brain of millions of pathways. Even got "access to tools" right. As you can tell, that was a really important book in my youth. And memories from youth are the ones that stick the best (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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<Snippage> (...) </Snippage> 60's, huh? Although I wasn't there myself, my uncle always said if you remember the 60's, you weren't there. You remembered part of it. Does that mean you were partially there? ;) -Rob www.lifelites.com FUT - O-T.fun (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well that is a fairly accurate statement. Although I was still pretty grounded in the 60's--it was the 70's that were really where semi-presence occurred in me. Amd from Paul's post I guess semi-presence is still hanging around me. lol You (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(URL) Comments welcome. (...) Here is a link to a pretty bad picture of what my new machine is capable of. The minifigs and tiles are actually of excellent quality. The graphic over bricks was done by them with a less than perfect picture file so (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hi Tommy, The result is very nice. I'm pretty sure we will find new ideas of goodies for our LUG (and new challenges for you) ;) Erik - FreeLUG member (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hi Tommy, Did the machine melt the second stud from the left or were you using deformed bricks for testing? I can think of lots of cool uses; this looks like it will be wonderful. Rafe (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Your logo would look outstanding --I always liked that logo--a pain to engrave--but would be easy to print. But you already have it on a minifig on your website. (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Official New Service Announcement From The BrickEngraver--LONG
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(...) Could you print dark colors on fairly light colored bricks? For example, could you print black text on a yellow brick? If the yellow plastic behind the black letters made the text look dark gray instead of true black, I don't think it would (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hopefully--I actually sent them some yellow parts but did not get chance for samples. But it was not a deal killer. I would think, especially if printing with black that that would work. Black always has the highest opacity of any pigment and (...) (16 years ago, 27-Aug-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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