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Mini Cutters
Seen a few on eBay made by good ole Creation Pcut. 😛
Wondered if anyone here has either got one or used one? They take approx 10" width vinyl, usb connection, come with software for about £150 plus delivery (£60 ish I think)
Looking for one when I do small events where I will likely be doing multiple cuts of logo’s, small car graphics, sunstrips etc (at car shows). Dont fancy chucking my main plotter in the car along with table, gazebe, generator, vinyl etc. Worth a try do you think, or a complete waste of time??
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Phil, might be worth a try or might be a complete waste of time and money, don’t know the market at all but my main worry about doing something like this wouldn’t be the cost of the cutter but the vinyl. If it is only a 10" plotter does that mean you are going to have to stock vinyl at two different widths?
Can’t see vinyl at 10" wide being of much use for most of your sign work so you couldn’t just stock vinyl at this width. -
i thought about that too. Was going to use standard vinyl and cut lengths off at 10" from a 24" roll. Probably not the greatest idea with some potential jobs as the longest cut would be 24".
On the other side, I could manually slit a 24" roll to 2×10" with a 4" (worthless) strip left over. In this case I would only slit to required length of job (not a whole 20m roll for example).Pro’s and cons for sure. Just not 100% sure in my own head whether it would potentially make life easier, or whether to just put the CT630 in the boot and use an old laptop all rigged up to generator and be done with it. Trouble is as we all know, these cutters aint exactly easy to move about!!
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Hi,
The small cutter isn’t a bad idea. I’ve no idea on the quality of this make, but thinking about it, I nearly always trim off any spare vinyl when producing graphics. Usually this is 10 inches or less, so I’d get to use up all my offcuts if I were to buy one of these. Also, the offcuts would generally be paid for anyway as I nearly always charge for the full piece anyway….
Just my 2p worth 🙂
Adam
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yes thats one way of looking at it……. pretty good way in fact.
When you think 90% of the work on it will be small cut graphics for boyracers and the like, I cant see me being stretched to its limit. The odd sunstrip text is probably about the biggest I would do.Anything else would have to be pre ordered and deposit paid!!! hehe
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In fact, sunstrips would be an ideal use for it, as there wouldn’t be a lot of wasteage! Even if we were to trim say 3m lengths of a 24" roll, and split it into 3, that’d be more economical usage of the material….
Might get one myself now 🙂
Adam
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Phil, I think a lot will be down to where you go with this set up. What sort of events are you looking at covering?
I have been up to Knockhill and Crail when they have had hot hatch days and handed out business cards and fliers but didn’t really generate a lot of work from it. There are always companies at these events with proper trailer units doing graphics on the spot, don’t know what they pay for their pitch but they always seemed to be busy. Problem with a lot of boy racers is that they want the stuff there and then so would rather pay the company that was there to do what they wanted. At a place like that I wouldn’t think a 10" plotter would be much good as a lot of what these guys wanted were either quite big graphics or printed.
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I have one of these cutters for doing t-shirts, Car signs etc… I have also just cut A-board signs for my brother, it works fine now. 10" width gives quite good letter size and it will handle 16m length. It is the same as the secabo mini and I have also seen it badged as frogger. You can only run vinyl at the max width i.e you can not run slimmer bits through due to the way the rollers are set up.
I had so much trouble with it to start with, it would not cut, would cut utter gobbledi gook, stop half way through etc.. wasted loads of vinyl. Drove me mad I was trying to drive it from a DELL Laptop running W2K, then an IBM running XP. I almost binned the thing.
It will not run on XP as it does not have the correct drivers. therefore I went back to the DELL with W2K and it kept screwing up. I now run it off an OLD DELL GX110 standalone running W2K SP2 and with ARTCUT 2005 that came with it and it works great via the USB. They are cheap and work ok, once you get the hang of it. But I could not for the life of me get it to cut correctly from the laptop (and I’m a comms engineer!!) (perhaps the laptop does not output enough voltage?) Beware they are a real ball ache to get going at first, the P-cut website has little info on it.
Good luck.
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