Introduction and Tayda tribulations

[damianvila]

Hello!
My name is Damian Vila. I'm a Designer from Madrid, Spain. I'm currently designing my own pedals, and I'm also an Affinity Designer user, so even though I've read everything I have to read, I'm having some problems with Tayda.
Even though I checked and the layers were present in Acrobat Reader, they reported that there were no White and Gloss layers. I think this may be because I forgot to put the palette in the document (I have the VersaWorks palette as an App palette and System palette), so this time I included the palette in the document, and hope that everything works.
If I manage to get the correct results, I'll be more than glad to write a detailed guide for other Affinity users, updated to the last Designer version (since a couple things changed form the guides I've seen around here).
If someone managed to UV print something with success lately using Affinity and has any advice to share, I'll be really glad.
That all right now. Glad to be here, the information has been invaluable.
Cheers.

 

[Laundryroom David]

Hello!
My name is Damian Vila. I'm a Designer from Madrid, Spain. I'm currently designing my own pedals, and I'm also an Affinity Designer user, so even though I've read everything I have to read, I'm having some problems with Tayda.
Even though I checked and the layers were present in Acrobat Reader, they reported that there were no White and Gloss layers. I think this may be because I forgot to put the palette in the document (I have the VersaWorks palette as an App palette and System palette), so this time I included the palette in the document, and hope that everything works.
If I manage to get the correct results, I'll be more than glad to write a detailed guide for other Affinity users, updated to the last Designer version (since a couple things changed form the guides I've seen around here).
If someone managed to UV print something with success lately using Affinity and has any advice to share, I'll be really glad.
That all right now. Glad to be here, the information has been invaluable.
Cheers.

Welcome!

 

[Gordo]

Welcome!

 

[cwsquared]

Welcome. May I point you to our very own @Guardians of the analog's YouTube videos on the subject? Part 1 of 4:

There are also a quite a few threads here on the forum. These are what came to mind first:

Tayda UV Printing Roland Swatches for Affinity

Hey all, just thought I'd share these. Here are the RDG_White and RDG_Gloss swatches for Affinity so you can use them for Tayda UV Printing. You'll need to import them from the Swatches section of Designer (you can find this under View>Studio). Click the menu button (four little lines) on the...

forum.pedalpcb.com

Tayda UV Printing

Just sent off an email to Tayda to see about getting a pedal UV printed. I want more detail than what I can do with paint pens and I am interested in the process. I will chronicle how the experience goes for those that are interested, I do not have illustrator so we will see if they accept a...

forum.pedalpcb.com

 

[RetiredUnit1]

¡Hola! from Sunny Southern California. Pretty much the opposite side of the planet......

 

[KR Sound]

 

[Silver Blues]

Saludos de Canada

 

[damianvila]

Welcome. May I point you to our very own @Guardians of the analog's YouTube videos on the subject? Part 1 of 4:

There are also a quite a few threads here on the forum. These are what came to mind first:

Tayda UV Printing Roland Swatches for Affinity

Hey all, just thought I'd share these. Here are the RDG_White and RDG_Gloss swatches for Affinity so you can use them for Tayda UV Printing. You'll need to import them from the Swatches section of Designer (you can find this under View>Studio). Click the menu button (four little lines) on the...

forum.pedalpcb.com

Tayda UV Printing

Just sent off an email to Tayda to see about getting a pedal UV printed. I want more detail than what I can do with paint pens and I am interested in the process. I will chronicle how the experience goes for those that are interested, I do not have illustrator so we will see if they accept a...

forum.pedalpcb.com

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

Those threads are the ones I've read from beginning to end, but it seems that maybe there's been some change introduced in Designer 2, because I've seen recent reports of problems, when in the past it looks like the incredible minds in these forums were able to overcome all the difficulties. I've re-submitted my job to Tayda, and will report shortly.