Vinyl Record Images

Target Transfers Has an Enviable Reputation as a Trade Supplier of High Quality Heat Transfer Graphics

Target Transfers was founded over 30 years ago, and is based in Braintree, Essex, England. The company has an enviable reputation as a trade supplier of high quality heat transfer graphics, which are at the cutting edge of heat transfer technology. Innovative, reliable and “customer friendly” service has enabled Target to become established as the market leader.

Target has a policy of constant review, development, and improvement, to ensure that our range of products is absolutely the most advanced available. We continually invest in new equipment in order that we can produce in the quickest, most cost-effective way, and pass on these benefits to customers in the form of competitive prices for the very best quality products. Target has four operating divisions, which deal with specific markets and their requirements, but are fully integrated so that customers can be given the very best advice whatever their requirements may be.

Target Digital
We offer a huge spectrum of digital print media. There is a comprehensive range of CAD-CUT™ materials for imprinting onto textiles including the most advanced textile vinyls available; plus vinyl cutters, accessories, and software. We have a great range of CAD-PRINT™ items, for inkjets, colour laser printers or copiers, plus full (friendly!) technical support. We also offer the very latest PRINT & CUT media for use with the new breed of print and cut machines. Everything in fact that you could possibly need, so that you can order from just one source!

Target Originals
We offer around 300 stock designs covering a very wide range of subjects, including some licensed designs, and an extensive range of animal motifs.

Target Custom
We specialise in producing transfers for garment manufacturers, and many of our products can be seen in both major High Street retail stores, as well as in many high Fashion Design houses, and on internationally recognised sports brands! As both licensees and licensors ourselves, we fully understand the need not just to produce high quality motifs, but also the need for tight security and accurate record keeping. We are happy to enable customers to visit whenever convenient to inspect our premises and security, and products leaving our factory will only ever appear on the customer’s own shelves, not someone else’s! We also understand the need to protect copyright ownership and intellectual property is valuable! We will give every assistance to ensure that your copyright material remains your property. Our studio staff are trained to be vigilant over such sensitive and important issues. Our staff are well versed in copyright, trademark and licensing law. Anyone presenting such designs to us for production will be asked to provide evidence of copyright ownership.

Target Letters & Numbers
We provide a wide range of lettering and numbering for the sports market, and a full colour brochure is available upon request providing all the information that may be required. We are also able to provide lettering and numbering to customer’s own specifications if required, including personalisation and identification images within the letter or number.

Target Presses
Finally, we supply the best heat presses available on the market today, the Hotronix™ presses. Not all heat presses are equal; many are built to a price and as a result often suffer both electrical and mechanical breakdowns. Downtime means loss of earnings time, so it’s really important to ensure that when you purchase a heat press that you are buying the most reliable and well made presses on offer. The Hotronix™ range now includes the only manual heat presses available which offer a patented magnetic hold-down feature and a pressure read-out gauge for greater accuracy when applying transfers. And it’s comforting to note that in the unlikely event that your press should need attention, we carry a full range of spare parts in stock, and will also happily repair or refurbish your press.

A Makeover for the Hillary Clinton of “yesterday”

I walked into Dunkin’ Donuts two days before what would be a very close New Hampshire primary. As I was ordering my egg and cheese on a plain bagel (toasted), I glanced down at the newspaper stand near the counter. The Boston Herald had a front page headline that morning which exclaimed: “She’s So Yesterday”. The picture under the headline caption showed the face of an aging Hillary Clinton. Her picture was accompanied by an image of the vinyl record of the Beatles hit “Yesterday “.

Rush Limbaugh had done a somewhat similar story on Hillary Clinton several weeks ago. He had questioned whether people in this society would vote for an aging woman for President who had wrinkles in a culture of perfect faces and slim and tight figures. At the time I figured that coming from Rush Limbaugh, this was an attack from the right of the political spectrum on Hillary Clinton. Now I am beginning to think that he may have been on to something.

However, when I read that newspaper headline, I realized the trouble the Clinton presidential campaign is in against the much younger candidate, Barack Obama. In fact, these tabloid political attacks on her may now have reached the point of making the entire “Boomer” generation a potential thing of the past.

This has touched a little too close to home with me. I never thought I would say this but allow me to give the Hillary Clinton campaign some unsolicited advice in order for her to capture the younger voter of today from Barack Obama. Here is my ten point (tongue somewhat in cheek) makeover for candidate Hillary Clinton, a person whom the Boston Herald newspaper refers to as “So Yesterday”.

1. Get your husband (Bill Clinton) off of the campaign trail. He talks mostly about himself. He never received 50% of the vote in any election he has won. The two Presidents for the price of one approach makes people uncomfortable. The back to the future approach does not work. He looks like a relic and makes you both look like yesterday’s news. Have him advise you quietly behind the scenes. He can be heard but not seen.

2. Keep your smiling daughter (Chelsea) on the campaign trail. She makes you look like a good mother. She reminds voters that you could be the first female elected President. She makes you look less programmed and more human.

3. Look and act like a real person. Everything in your campaign appears scripted. All your responses look like they are measured and calculated to appeal to the latest poll numbers. Those spontaneous tears the other day may have been the reason for your margin of victory in New Hampshire. However you can’t expect to cry the day before the next primary election and have it work again.

4. Hope that you win the Democratic primary and run against Republican Fred Thompson in the fall. He is so “last week” while you are only “so yesterday“. I don’t think you will have to worry about winning the youth vote in that general election.

5. Stop running primarily on the issue of your experience. The voters are furious at politicians in Washington D. C. They think that things “inside the beltway” are broken and need to be fixed. Today’s voters are mentally storming the gates of their government. They don’t want someone to tell them they are an insider and know how it runs. The point is that they don’t like how it runs.

6. Really embrace the issue of change. Create a plan to change the government. The plan should be bold. The plan should mention the first 100 days and what you would do as the first female President. Don’t consult polls. Tell us what you honestly want to do. A politician that does that would certainly represent real change.

7. Insist that Barrack Obama tell everyone what he would change. What does his plan consist of anyway? We have heard much about “hope” and “change.” We have not heard many details. If you do not make him outline his plan, you can bet the Republicans in the general election will do so instead.

8. Stop using the phrase ” I have the battle scars to prove it” in reference to your experience in the 1990s with Universal Healthcare. It makes you sound like you should be honored with a pancake breakfast at the local war veterans post.

9. Say WIFI , Bluetooth, Xbox and GPS often. It doesn’t matter that you may not know what these terms mean. Just make sure you say them. Also, make sure you watch plasma and HDTV and have an Ipod. Do not mention the Beatles, Cher, Mary Tyler Moore, or Woodstock at any time.

10. Keep your chin up (don’t let it sag). Hold your head high (don’t worry about face lifts) and stop exercising to the Richard Simmons show every morning on those VCR tapes. We use DVD players now and Richard Simmons is “totally yesterday.”

If you do all these things, you still may not win this election. However, your campaign would feature a forward-looking real person, who has energy and who addresses the voters’ desire for real change. You could even transform yourself into the new age candidate of “today”.

At the very least, with this type of makeover, the newspapers would never again show you under the tabloid headline: “She’s So Yesterday”. For a Baby Boomer, that is fast becoming an important victory in itself.

Create Different Flooring Moods Using Carpet Tiles

Choice is a great thing  but often  overwhelming! If you would like   ideas on how to best utilise carpet tiles, here are  a range of design options. Science has proven that choice is good, but having a lot of choice is hard work! If you are looking at the enormous range of carpet tiles available and have been juggling ideas for flooring design, here are a range of ideas to get you started.

The patterns that follow can be customised to your choice of colour, and in many cases your choice of pattern also. Use tools like online flooring visualisers, available from major carpet tile manufacturers, to help realize your design. Eliminate the patterns you don’t like, weigh up the benefits of those you do and you’ll be well on your way to a stylish, sustainable, low-cost, and replaceable floor.

In ‘tracks’

Tracks laid alongside each other like grooves on a vinyl record are an easy way to incorporate subtle variation while maintaining a sleek look. This technique will vary depending on your choice of:

Solid colours or patterns
Carpet tiles of equal or varying sizes ( see left/right/below/above)
Tracks in either a long and narrow, or square space (see left/right/below/above)
Contrasting, identical or complementary colour palettes

To delineate paths

This tactic is useful within public and commercial spaces. Paths look especially effective with a hint of curvature, as in the image.

Spots of colour

The ‘spots of colour’ concept creates a clean, sparse and visually appealing effect. If you need to consider furniture, objects or signage, this is a great way to include a bit of variation without making the space look overdone.
You can mix up this carpet concept by alternating spot sizes and placement, using a varied colour palette and using patterned spots.

Checkerboard

There are many ways to create a checkerboard look with the standard option of one colour succeeding the other being the most common. You can also utilise the inbuilt pattern in carpet tiles to create this effect, or use another option below to create a more complex statement.

Use a two-tone or gradational arrangement
Use particularly subtle colours, or two close variations on one colour
Use two contrasting patterns in the same colour palette

Complementary solid patterns in different areas

Solid patterns and solid colours in your flooring don’t have to be boring if you vary the mood from room to room. The image shows two related, but contrasting patterns and how they merge at the junction of the two spaces. If you have an office space to redecorate, you can use the same pattern for all of the office areas and a contrasting pattern for the meeting rooms. Alternatively, you can create a gradation of light to dark when moving from one end of the space to another.
Using and manipulating carpet tiles to suit a particular theme, mood or concept, presents a designer with an infinite amount of possibilities.

How a speaker cable affects sound quality

If you’re outfitting your home theater, then most likely, you’ve spent a great deal of care selecting the speakers to go with it. You want your surround sound to be just as crisp and clear as the image on your new hi def television set, so you’ve gone out of your way to get the best quality speakers and arrange them perfectly to get the full surround sound experience.

So now you’re shopping for speaker cables, and you want to make sure you’re getting the good cables so as not to render that investment on the speakers moot. After all, you don’t spend a thousand bucks setting up your surround sound system only to use the cheapest speaker cables available right?

Wrong.

Trust us, get the one dollar speaker cables.

When you go into an electronics store to get your speaker cables, you always bump into a pushy sales clerk who insists that with a gold plated, oxygen free, fifty dollar speaker cable, you’re going to get fifty times better sound than you would out of the one dollar cable.

The only thing you’re going to get out of the fifty dollar cable is an empty wallet. If you’re outfitting a full surround system, you might wind up spending well over another thousand bucks trying to go all out on the fancy cables, where you could’ve had the same setup for ten bucks if you’d gotten the cheaper cables. But don’t worry, when you have it all installed, you’ll find out where that extra thousand bucks went: Into the store’s cash register, because it sure didn’t go into improving your sound quality.

A CD or an MP3 is really nothing but a bunch of computer data. It’s just digital information, really. Now of course, if you’re playing a vinyl-record, that’s a different story. Likewise if you’re running over one hundred meters of wire, or have done some scientific tests in your listening area and discovered this or that cable to be far superior to any other. Otherwise, don’t waste a bunch of time worrying about the quality of a speaker wire.

Setting up the full “entertainment zone” in your living room can be a lot of fun, and you do want it to be as good as it can be, or why bother spending so much? So, when it comes to speakers, go ahead and splurge on a top brand. When it comes to your HDTV, get the biggest, most hi-def TV you can safely afford. When it comes to the cables… go scrounge some change from your couch cushions and get the cheapest stuff available, because it’s going to do exactly what the fifty dollar cable will do, minus, of course, making you fifty dollars poorer.

And of course, if you’re that eager to be parted from your hard earned money, you can always buy the one dollar cable and drop forty nine in the charity bucket on the way out. Hey, if you insist on spending an extra forty nine dollars for no good reason, it may as well be for a good cause, because no matter what anyone tells you, the one dollar cables will give you the exact same sound as the fifty dollar speaker cables.

What are the chances of vinyl records making a comeback and replacing CDs and MP3s? Is audio technology….?

Returning to the past? I got the following article off CNET.com.

June 26, 2008 10:11 AM PDT
Making vinyl records the old-fashioned way
Posted by Daniel Terdiman 4 comments

At United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tenn., LPs are still made the old-fashioned way: with lots and lots of vinyl. This is a bin full of little vinyl pellets that will be melted into records.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–When people think of the Beatles coming to America, they usually conjure up images of The Ed Sullivan Show and screaming teenage girls chasing the Fab Four on the streets of New York.

But here in Music City, there’s something else to commemorate the earliest stages of the British Invasion: the fact that the first American Beatles 7-inch record was produced by United Record Pressing–then, as now, one of the largest makers of vinyl in the world.

On Monday, as I swung through Nashville on Road Trip 2008, I was lucky enough to get to visit the production facilities of United Record Pressing here and get a firsthand look at how LPs are made. Before you scoff at the notion of making records, consider that over the last few years, the format has made a big comeback, with sales skyrocketing and turntables moving off store shelves like they haven’t in years.

Why? The reason is pure irony.

According to Jay Millar, the marketing and sales manager for United Record Pressing, it has everything to do with the emergence of Apple’s oh-so-ubiquitous MP3 player.

“It really started picking up when iPods started coming onto the scene,” Millar said. “Everything got so sterile with digital that people were not spending time” with the physical manifestation of their music.

A record-pressing machine at United Record Pressing. The company is one of only three in the United States that still produces LPs in any meaningful amounts.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

In other words, as iPods began to dominate the music world, people were leaving their CDs on the shelves, and iTunes downloads, as well as those via file-sharing services, took over.

But for audiophiles used to actually handling some sort of disc, this change has led to a reversal of fortune for the LP, a format long thought to have gone the way of the floppy disk.

For a company like United Record Pressing, that’s been great news, as its sales have been going up steadily as more and more artists turn to records as a way to get their music into the hands of people who care about it.

So how is a record made?

First, a separate company with facilities nearby takes the original recording–which can come in the form of an audio tape, but (audiophiles, cover your eyes here) more often comes on CDs since many artists are using software like ProTools to cut their tracks–and uses it to cut the familiar circular grooves into an object called a lacquer.

The lacquer is then delivered to United Record Pressing, which begins the process of actually making the LPs.

First, the lacquer is sprayed with a layer of silver, which, after it sets, is then peeled off. The resulting sheet is known as the master, and it is the opposite of a record, because it has ridges rather than grooves.

The master is then used to make what is known as the mother, a metal version of the record that can, itself, actually be played.

At United Record Pressing, black is not the only color of vinyl that is used. There’s also red, orange, blue, gray, and even a mixture made from the cuttings of the other colors.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

The mother is then pressed into what is known as the stamper, and this, too, has ridges. The stamper actually is the basis of every record that comes out of this factory.

At this point, it’s all about raw vinyl, millions of little chunks of the material that resemble Pop Rocks.

And it’s not just black either. The company also makes records that are red, orange, blue, and gray. Sometimes, it takes all the discarded vinyl from several pressings and mixes them together into a kind of hodgepodge color.

First, the vinyl is melted down into what is called the biscuit. This is the center of the record, the round part with no grooves and the little hole. To this is added the label, which is pressed onto the biscuit, a step that doesn’t require any adhesive. Rather, the biscuit is so hot from the vinyl being melted down that the label sticks right on.

The labels, which are printed here by the thousands, are actually baked in a special oven so that they retain no moisture, something that could cause bubbling on the actual record.

To ensure that labels don’t bubble up after being pressed onto a record, the labels are baked in an oven to remove any moisture.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

Then, the biscuit is placed in the middle of a machine and then it is joined together with a fresh supply of vinyl, and together they are smashed between a plate and the stamper. A blade then shears off the excess vinyl, and voila! A brand new record slides out of the machine and onto a rack.

When all is said and done, it’s actually a remarkably simply process. But there’s still much more that must happen before an LP leaves the facility.

First, at least one of each new album run must be tested. So on one side of a room that long ago was used as a room for record release and signing parties–Hank Williams Jr. had a party thrown for him here when he was 16, Millar said–a woman is sitting and bobbing her head as she listens to songs on headphones, making sure the new record has no problems. If it does, United Record Pressing will have to tell the record company what the issue is.

There’s also the small matter of putting the records in their sleeves–something I saw two people tucked away in a corner of one room doing. They had their process down pat: grab an LP, inspect it quickly for obvious defects, pick up a sleeve, slide in the record, repeat.
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Millar showed me a room in the basement of the building that contained thousands and thousands of folders–really, they seemed like extra-thick album covers with no art–that contain the masters of every record the company has produced over the years. This is a treasure trove bar none, since United Record Pressing works with pretty much every major label you can imagine.

Inside each folder is the master, and a full set of all the associated materials: the master, a label, an album jacket, and anything else that might be included, such as liner notes. And these days, as with an Elvis Costello album Millar showed me, the folders may also hold an insert with information for a digital download of the album.

In fact, it is these digital downloads that may be heralding the re-emergence of the LP and the death of the CD. That’s because many artists are now offering record buyers a one-time free download of all the tracks on the album as a bonus.

This is still a small enough phenomenon, of course, to barely register on Apple’s radar. iTunes is safe, in other words.

Still, for audiophiles who used to buy CDs, this gives them a way to have a physical disc to listen to the music on, as well as a way to easily tote it with them.

“People don’t need their discs to be compact anymore,” said Millar, “because you can’t get much more compact than MP3. So it’s back to the big discs.”

queston for people with larger pieces ( tattoos ) i need some advice here does it makes sense ?

this is the idea that i have for my next tattoo

music is a big part of my life i joined a musical theater i did some recording in the past etc… so this is what i have on my mind im thinking about like a phonograph or gramophone whatever its called ( the thing that plays those big vinyl discs ) some broken/worn down clocks , music notes/sheets and like tree roots or rose thorns wrapping around that phonograph/gramophone
symbolizing that music is timeless
and somehow get this quote there:
non c’è inizio né fine, existe solo l’infinita passione per la vita.
its Italian for :
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life

those are the references that i have gathered :

http://sooper-deviant.deviantart.com/art/Tough-Roots-0570-103617791

http://prismchan.deviantart.com/art/di-amore-62815318

http://willemxsm.deviantart.com/art/clock-sketch-99961051

http://spiritsighs-stock.deviantart.com/art/Music-notes-15251697

http://failurebyexcuse.deviantart.com/art/Music-44690080

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&ei=LjMNStilJaWyMf30lb0G&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=gramophone&spell=1

also the music would be dont stop believin by journey or one by U2
i think that this would be an interesting and original piece i talked with the guy that did my 1st tattoo about this piece and he said that he has never seen anything like this and that it would be a fun piece to do
so thats kinda encouraging

now does it makes sense all together??? and where would be a good place to get it done
im going to be a veterinary technician so i cant have anything visible ( well maybe i can but that would depend on the employer if i would get hired by him or her) so i though about maybe somehow sleeve-ing it

so do you think that this makes sense ??? that it will tie together somehow ?? i will start drawing something as i like to make a rough sketch by myself and then go to the artist and see what he will change or add
and those are the music sheets for dont stop believin

http://forpiano.com/file/journey__dont_stop_believin.pdf

what do u think of my writing?

tell me what you think. its about a boy i knew. whom i absolutely adored. and now that he’s gone, i wrote this about all the things we used to do together. just to give u an image of what this poem is about.

Better Times

I think back to better times. Back to bad movies and long walks. To bowling alleys and vinyl records. To a yellow room and purple dress. I think back to better times. Back to late night phone calls and the corner liquor store. To photographs and ring tones. To cheese quesadillas and backdoor escape routes. I think back to better times. Back to cut off jeans and spiders. To coffee mugs and benches. To mango tea and dog parks. I think back to better times. Back to falling and adoring. Back to holding and lying. Back to living and learning. Love is a gift, even when it is lost.

Can someone translate this picture from Greek to English?

I received this vinyl record from a friend a few weeks ago and I can’t find any information about this album because it is in Greek (it was imported into the US from Greece).

I’ve scanned the record and uploaded it. I’m hopeful that someone can translate at least the artist and record name for me. Furthermore, if you happen to know anything about the artist, I’d love to have that information as well.

http://justinruff.com/images/vinyl/scan0001.jpg

Thanks.

Breach of contract? How long can it last?

I know very little about contract law so I’m looking for whatever answers I can find. A musical artist had a contractual agreement with a manager, in addition to a contract with a major recording label. The artist and manager had a falling out (a little more than 3 years ago). The artist is now signed with a major international music label, which is the parent company of his former record label. The artist picked up their new manager shortly after breaking with the former manager. Because of the falling out with the original manager, the artist is now prohibited from releasing compact discs (but not vinyl records) in the U.S. because the former manager supposedly has the rights to the music, and band name. There are also rumors about being prohibited to play live concerts as well. The artist has also had to modify their image as the image of the artist is related to the band name. It is rumored that the former manager was helping create the music, and was not being credited. It is also rumored that the former manager felt that because of the terms of their agreement, was always at a disadvantage. Would the original agreement hold up in court? If there is no termination clause to the original agreement, is there a length of time after which the original agreement would automatically become invalid? Certainly this can’t go on forever, or can it?

What do you think of this necklace (pics)?

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/538027/2534108458_414f48310f.jpg

http://cache1.bigcartel.com/product_images/538023/2533294729_ea44a7157d.jpg

It’s made out of recycled vinyl record and it’s $15