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RE: UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-22-2025 16:33
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Thanks, David. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

RE: UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-22-2025 16:30
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Thanks, Bryant. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

RE: UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-22-2025 16:30
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Thanks, Lisa. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

RE: UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-22-2025 09:51
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Brian - Thanks for the detailed info. Good point about the run time capacity. These are my goals: Remove the need to stop a running process during a storm Let the current job run until done. If we can run additional items that's a bonus. I'll be shopping for a bunch of UPS units today. ...

RE: UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-22-2025 09:46
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Eric - I assume you use the surge protection built into the UPS. Is that correct? Thanks for your reply. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

UPS for UV printer and other production equipment?

Posted By Bill Collier 07-21-2025 10:11
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I'd like to hear from shop owners who use UPS (uninterruptible power supply) on your production gear. Some background: We try to be aware when storms are brewing, and if we see lightning we stop running jobs so a glitch doesn't ruin the product being run. Of course we have our file server on a UPS, ...

RE: Adhesion Problems

Posted By Bill Collier 07-11-2025 11:55
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How about standoffs? Even if the sign is not fancy enough to go with a silver or gold standoff, there are various material and color options including wood. Suppliers include JDS, JPP & MBS. MBS has wooden ones. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ...

RE: Does anyone know of a wholesale supplier for something like this?

Posted By Bill Collier 10-11-2024 11:57
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On Amazon you can usually see who the supplier behind the scenes is. Contact that company directly and ask if you can buy from them. Maybe they'll give you their wholesale/reseller price. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 -------------------- ...

RE: Shout-out to JDS and call to action for other suppliers

Posted By Bill Collier 09-28-2023 10:53
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Shana - I may have not explained my point as well as I could have. Here's a short version ... JDS always knows we're calling and looks up our account without being asked to. My post is recognizing and praising JDS for this practice. Nobody at JDS dropped the ball. Many/most of our other industry ...

Shout-out to JDS and call to action for other suppliers

Posted By Bill Collier 09-27-2023 12:33
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This post is a combination thank you and shout-out to JDS and a recommendation for our other industry suppliers. Here's a typical call to JDS: JDS: Good morning. How can I help you? Us: This is ________ from Arch Engraving in Missouri. I have a question about an order we placed yesterday. ...

RE: Mounting Badge on a Plaque

Posted By Bill Collier 08-02-2023 09:35
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If you have the original, it's curved and doesn't lay flat, so the other suggestions you see here work well. At my company - if we get an early start and have time - we ask the police department to contact their badge supplier (most commonly it's Blackinton) and order a flat version of the badge. ...

Read this, and next time you send out an award with a typo you won't feel so bad.

Posted By Bill Collier 01-10-2023 10:34
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https://buffalonews.com/new-war-memorial-is-riddled-with-errors/article_89a5183a-935a-50b8-b2e4-2d5e8d16f49e.html ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

SCAM ALERT!

Posted By Bill Collier 11-16-2022 13:23
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We got a request for quote which initially looked genuine but we found out is a scam. It's a guy calling himself Mike Thompson, and he says he's with Avara Construction in the Seattle area. His email address looked suspicious which caused us to do some checking. He said he wanted to buy 50 bluetooth ...

2002 Operating Ratio & Price Survey - is there a newer one?

Posted By Bill Collier 10-07-2022 11:20
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Was 2002 the last time the organization conducted a survey of members for the purpose of publishing them like this? APA was still called ARA back then. I was speaking with a fellow member who thinks there is a newer one. ***EDIT 10/19/22*** See Mark Conde's reply below - he was right, although ...

RE: custom wooden display boxes for a pistol

Posted By Bill Collier 07-27-2022 10:53
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Carol - See my post LASER CUTTABLE FOAM in the Laser Engraving channel about this subject. When we bought the foam for this project, we got more than we needed so we can send you what you need. It's probably an obvious suggestion, but Amazon has lots of finished and unfinished wood boxes with ...

RE: A word to the wise about bad guys and fraud

Posted By Bill Collier 06-02-2022 09:43
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David - Our debit card was issued by the regional bank where we do most of our banking, not by any of the big-name financial companies. That bank offers no protection for it. For bad guys, it was apparently almost a direct pipeline into our checking account. We use a credit card which has the benefit ...

A word to the wise about bad guys and fraud

Posted By Bill Collier 06-01-2022 15:50
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Even though my company is smack dab in the middle of the country, we've had encounters with bad guys on both coasts this week: A scoundrel in California yesterday called pretending to be from our local electric utility. He claimed we owed a few hundred dollars and unless we paid asap via a gift ...

RE: Need Lamp of Knowledge Medals

Posted By Bill Collier 02-08-2022 10:13
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I have them - a lamp on books, but not the word "Knowledge." I'll email details. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------

RE: Preassembled Trophy Cup Suppliers

Posted By Bill Collier 02-03-2022 12:17
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Linda - If you're looking for an additional cup source, check out Prizes for Excellence, who coincidentally has an advertisement on this discussion page. My company hasn't bought much from them yet, but I've spoken and emailed with Jacques Jean-Baptiste info@prizesforexcellence.com who gives great ...

RE: Holiday Pressure

Posted By Bill Collier 01-07-2022 09:51
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Great point. Please let me know what you find out. Much appreciated. ------------------------------ Bill Collier Arch Engraving Fenton MO 314.966.8800 ------------------------------