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Ok folks....be gentle with me on this one. I bought my Ricoh 7700 and mug press from Martin (BMS) on Friday and just today got it all up and running after a weekend of workbench building and installing the printer today.......a big thank you to Martin and all the guys at BMS for putting up with a 'complete novice'.

Anyway tonight after getting the printer to do it's thing and print it was 'oh my goodness here we go' time. Well either I'm thick or the instructions for the mug press are not exactly clear.......but heyho we (my good lady wife) and myself, fingers crossed hit the 'start button' and hoped for the best......here's the two resulting efforts. The first is the biker (me) and the second was the 'boss' choice 'cause she loves hefalumps. The biker seems Ok but was a trial and error effort because I didn't set the timer properly. The elephant one has what I think are heat mat marks probably caused by me not reducing the time/temp from the original setting of 180/150 to 170/140. This was purely my fault because the instructions state clearly in 'red lettering' 170/140....note to self 'read the bl00dy instructions'......hehe. Anyway here's the result and like I said it's our very first attempt...no other mugs were harmed in the making of these results....:biggrin:

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well done! i remember this feeling... :rolleyes:

Well done Roger :biggrin:

I'd be very happy with those for a first attempt.:biggrin:

Very good.

my first attempt was all faded out around the top and bottom of the mug and on other attempts I also somehow managed to make a few handels fall off.

hyraxx, if you have managed to make the handles fall off i would think you have perhaps got the press far too tight, or are knocking them when they are hot, or you have a damaged box

Well done. pleased to hear someone else is a novice and a bit unsure at times. i think i used four or five mugs to get things right.

All the best with your printing.

great first shot...hope mine turn out just as good for my first shot at it