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Bloody hell - why didn't anyone ever tell me about jigs damn it?! Ten years of taping down coasters with tape marks left on thousands of coasters (mainly the backs of crappy Unisub ones) and not once did I think there was a better way.

With an order of over 1500 coasters from one person I thought there must be a quicker way.

Well there is and I'm not looking back.

I've bought a load of 6-coaster jigs (A4) and getting some custom 24-coaster jigs (A2) made by MDP arriving next week and yes they bend and yes you can press upside down to combat this and yes you can place under heavy weights to straighten and YES this has changed my business.

I've saved so much time as not needing to tape down and not needing to peel off tape (and stressing the backing will come off with it) that I spend the time inbetween pressing getting the next jigs ready to go - like a production line.

And another tip - use Tack cloths. SO MUCH DUST WITH UNISUB yet I usually use a regular cloth until using tack cloths. So put coasters in jig, wipe with a tack cloth and PERFECT coasters front and back.

Yes, probably an idiot for not thinking about jigs and tack cloths sooner.

Hope that helps someone else.

Just tried some of the jigs from MDP, and getting very inconsistent results, what times and temp are using for unisub coasters in them?

The 6 coaster jigs we bought from sublimania which work brilliantly and just about to use the MDP custom ones this week (arrived too late for our large job sadly). I'll let you know about these once used.

im wondering now ive walked away from testing them if my problem was trying to use two at once (omega pneumatic press 60x80cm bed) which if had minor differences in height could have affected the platen being level on them both.

the sublimania ones are plywood arent they - i have looked at them before for the 50mm keyrings i get from them but never tried yet

UK Printed Mugs;154468 wrote:Bloody hell - why didn't anyone ever tell me about jigs damn it?! Ten years of taping down coasters with tape marks left on thousands of coasters (mainly the backs of crappy Unisub ones) and not once did I think there was a better way.

Just saw this........I explained this back in 2021:

https://www.dyesubforum.co.uk/vbforum/s ... light=jigs

This year we went one step further and machined a 60 up jig out of 3mm aluminium on a CNC machine. Works a treat!

Thanks
Gary

garysub;154497 wrote:J

This year we went one step further and machined a 60 up jig out of 3mm aluminium on a CNC machine. Works a treat!

Gary

Fancy making one or two up for me

My jig is good enough for me but I'd recommend having a "professional" (unlike me whose only spent a week or so building and then operating a CNC machine in his life!) CNC you one .......

garysub;154500 wrote:My jig is good enough for me but I'd recommend having a "professional" (unlike me whose only spent a week or so building and then operating a CNC machine in his life!) CNC you one .......

hehe - i only have a baby chinese 30x40cm cnc hiding away somewhere, by the 'building up' was that something like ooznest ones you made up

Fancy sharing the cut file to take to someone to quote up

Hi

Yes, it was a 1500x1000 ooznest. Great fun to build if that sort of thing floats your boat (as it does mine!)

I'm not back at work yet but happy to share my file if anyone wants to get a quote based on it.

Regards
Gary

hehe i looked at one of them when i started playing with the baby 30x40 - didnt have space at the time - but yes definitly interested in cut files for even an A4 version (which the 30x40 could just about handle) OR any size