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Ian M;18313 wrote:Jonathan,

You could always become the quality plate supplier on the forum & then when anyone said they were looking for plates you could jump in & promote your business.......lol.....wink wink nudge nudge eh!

Ian :biggrin:

Unfortunately my customers are end users. I don't have the contacts to be able to sell plates that I'd have to buy in. There's a reason why suppliers supply and printers printer. Or should that be suppliers should supply..?

So true Jonathan.

Wonder whatever happened to the demand bit of supply & demand? :biggrin:

Ian M;18335 wrote:Wonder whatever happened to the demand bit of supply & demand? :biggrin:

Apart from a couple of comments on here, how often do you think we get asked for ceramic plates... urrrmmm... let me count how many times in the past few years I've been asked on the fingers of one hand - yep still have a few fingers left

Martin how many times you get asked for sublimation slates before Adam asked on this forum???

Paul;18337 wrote:Martin how many times you get asked for sublimation slates before Adam asked on this forum???

Ah, but the difference here is we used to stock plates, white ones as well as gold edged. Small white plates, larger white plates and gold edged plates.

alright. I think this is the case of no plate presses on the market.

bms;18338 wrote:Ah, but the difference here is we used to stock plates, white ones as well as gold edged. Small white plates, larger white plates and gold edged plates.

Yes, white plates that weighed so much they felt like they were made from concrete slabs and the same rotten old z-grade gold-edge plates sold by others. The imagination put into this is awesome. :rolleyes:

No one's going to ask for plates while the only presses we can get are cheap n' nasty ones with inferior heat platens and the only plates we can get are so bad you throw away more than you sell.

I've heard that there are china/porcelain plates out there, but I don't think one has ever escaped into the UK. No, because they might sell.

JSR whats the guide time and temp to do them? I will try some from Coralgraph as they sell in small quantitis for good price.

Paul;18341 wrote:JSR whats the guide time and temp to do them? I will try some from Coralgraph as they sell in small quantitis for good price.

It depends a lot on what your press is capable of, whether you pre-heat the plates, and how large you try and print. Last week I was printing some of the 10.5" plates from Listawood (I would have bought from BMS, but BMS prices were 50% higher - a situation almost remedied by Listawood significantly increasing the price of their 10.5" plates when they upgraded their website. You'd think suppliers don't want to sell them or something. :rolleyes:).

Anyway, I pre-heated them (had to because 10.5" ones have a tendency to break) and then pressed for 7 mins at 185C. You may get away with a little less time, but I was trying to get good definition at the edge.

bms;18336 wrote:Apart from a couple of comments on here, how often do you think we get asked for ceramic plates... urrrmmm... let me count how many times in the past few years I've been asked on the fingers of one hand - yep still have a few fingers left

The comments were directed in general at suppliers not just a single supplier. Being fair it does sometimes appear on this forum there is only one supplier as the others don't take the opportunity to respond to threads such as this one.

I tend to keep most items that I produce in stock even during slow periods like as now for the reason I know I will have demand for those items at some point soon.

Isn't it better to have a small stock of a quality items knowing it will sell even though it's a slow seller.