Tayda UV Printing

UtilityBeltFX said:
I honestly didn't specify anything. It's just RDG_White on their matte blue enclosure! That's it!
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SYLV9ST9R said:
That's just how the UV comes out without gloss, i.e. some "grainy" texture
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It looks very cool. I will try it sometime to see if it turns out the same.

I've only done one enclosure without varnish, but it was yellow on magenta, and needless to day, it doesn't look nearly as cool.
 
flemming said:
I'm an Inkscape/Scribus user (I have my own pains), so I'm not sure exactly what it might be called. In Affinity Designer the options is something like "honor spot colors" in Scribus it's "Convert spot colors to process colors", I don't know about Illustrator.
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I’m getting ready for my very first Tayda UV order and I am also trying the Inkscape route. I have my three layers at this point. Do you usually set the Roland swatch in Inkscape? Or in Scribus? And then what are the steps in Scribus? Is it trivial to convert to pdf or is there anything to be careful with?
 
You make a one layer svg in inkscape and then import the svg in scribus.
Adjust all colors to cmyk
Import roland swatches
Duplicate layers And rename them
Apply swatches on the good layers.

Check @Dan M answers in this post, he explains every step really clearly. https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/tayda-uv-printing.4245/post-118370

Just waiting for the results of my first batch of printing.
 
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Bricksnbeatles said:
Converted the Roland swatch pdf to a .AI file since Scribus doesn't allow you to import PDFs. Anyone know why I'm getting this?
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EDIT: I was able to get it by redownloading the swatch file from tayda (when you click the link, it saves as a pdf, but if you do "save as", it saves as the original .ai file. I guess conversions from ai to pdf and back to ai aren't too fun hahah), but this is what my color palette looks like now–– way more than what's supposed to be there, and all labeled weird. anyone know which spot colors are the white and gloss here?
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Did you ever figure this out? I am having the same issue (also on Mac).
 
Has anybody else noticed pretty bad tolerances in the centering of their artboard on UV prints from tayda? It's nothing crazy but I have ordered a run of enclosures and found that my artboard or holes for some of the enclosures in the same batch are off by about a millimeter or more sometimes. Seems to mainly be the X... I'll post pictures about what I'm talking about tomorrow.
 
jojofogarty said:
Has anybody else noticed pretty bad tolerances in the centering of their artboard on UV prints from tayda? It's nothing crazy but I have ordered a run of enclosures and found that my artboard or holes for some of the enclosures in the same batch are off by about a millimeter or more sometimes. Seems to mainly be the X... I'll post pictures about what I'm talking about tomorrow.
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I haven’t noticed this yet, but I’ll take a close look at my enclosure coming in Monday and report back. I believe the drill page says +/- 1mm. I’ve had a hole in the side of an enclosure off by a bit, but other than that one it has been good as far as drilling. Do you have pictures of yours? I believe there is a good history of them fixing bad enclosures, but I’ve never had one bad enough to request a replacement.
 
Just received my first uv printed enclosures from Tayda. All was made using gimp for the layout, inkscape to vectorize and make adjustments and then scribus to create layered pdf. Really happy with the result, picture does not do justice, that artemis has some texture in the black square. And I was afraid of white over pale blue but the result is really good. 20221212_204708.jpg
 
swyse said:
I haven’t noticed this yet, but I’ll take a close look at my enclosure coming in Monday and report back. I believe the drill page says +/- 1mm. I’ve had a hole in the side of an enclosure off by a bit, but other than that one it has been good as far as drilling. Do you have pictures of yours? I believe there is a good history of them fixing bad enclosures, but I’ve never had one bad enough to request a replacement.
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My enclosure showed up. It was well centered and looked great... until I scratched it. Not sure how I did it but maybe the UV print doesn’t stick to chromium that well?
 
Here's how my latest batch of prints turned out.
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Quick question, has anyone tried Tayda UV printing onto an unpainted enclosure? I have a design I think would suit being printed onto bare aluminium, but I have concerns about whether or not the printing will stick to an unprepared surface.
 
Grubb said:
Quick question, has anyone tried Tayda UV printing onto an unpainted enclosure? I have a design I think would suit being printed onto bare aluminium, but I have concerns about whether or not the printing will stick to an unprepared surface,
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I've done it twice and it's worked good for me.
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giovanni said:
Here's art for my Sun face (Si). The background image is the spectrum of the sun, which I thought was pretty appropriate, besides looking pretty cool.

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I am very excited to have submitted this to Tayda today! Fingers crossed it'll turn out well. I used Inkscape for the art and Affinity Designer to make the pdf, all thanks to @dmnCrawler for his amazing tutorial on his blog!
I also submitted two Sonomatic ones but I didn't make the art for those.
 
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