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Suggestions on a good small cutter to contour cut my …
As some of you know from my other thread, I have a 63" JV3 and now and then I get orders for small stickers. I’m thinking of getting a small cutter and using it to cut out the stickers. Is this possible? Someone mentioned to me that you can print registration marks, and then the cutter can pick them up and cut the job for you.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi Scot
You can use registration marks, You will need a opos cutter to be able to read the registration marks, also yor rip software will have to have the option to contour cut! I use this method and it is very effective!
Hope this helps!!!Cheers Matt
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i could be wrong here but "i think" Graphtec, Summa and Roland machines cme with this feature as standard nowadays, if its not standard its certainly optional.
i know its an added expence but ide buy the same width of cutter as your printer. -
I just got a trial of Onyx and I have a feeling it should cover it (looks like a very well equipped program).
Forgive my ignorance but is "opos" a process, a brand, or what?
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dont ask me what it stands for but its a laser that runs next to the cutting blade to find the registration marks!!!
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I don’t know that I really need a cutter that big unless we’re only talking a $500 diff. I rarely do stickers, but when I do they are <20" wide.
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Like robert says ive got a printer and plotter the same size! I found if i didnt there would be a lot of waste vinyl if your printer is bigger than your plotter because you would have to trim media down all the time to fit it in!!!
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I’m thinking of just getting a 38" machine since I get 38" adhesive vinyl from my supplier. I do print on 54" rolls as well, but never have any requests for contour cuts that shape.
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Have you looked at craft robo and robo pro, you can get the robo for about £185 and it’s got an optical sensor thingy.
There are quite a few sites that have info on it.
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I have a Roland GX 24 and it has the old magic eye on that, but its a little more expensive than a craft Robo at £1300 + vat, but it does cut 610mm media up to about 585mm if you get the rollers right to the edge and performs faultlessley, today I have cut out some printed logos for T shirt transfer that have miniscule holes in and its done those with ease
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lee i would have to say i regard the robo as a craft/hobbyist machine mate… i guess if you are doing t-shirts with prints a max of about A4 then yes, it will do the job there too… the machine serves its purpose well but i would have to say no to it accompanying the likes of a JV3 for mass production of stickers.
i know Scott has NOT said mass production and only for small amounts of stickers, but i cannot help but think once he has both machines doing this sort of work he will moving up to running off hundreds, if not thousands of stickers further down the line. i say that because that is what happened with us, contour cutting was an added benefit with our machine as we did small runs of stickers here and there. we now get masses of the things to run…
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i see what you mean, i wasn’t thinking down the line. i just looked at it being cheap for someone thinking about doing it. i don’t know how good/fast the robo’s are but they do have a bigger version which i think is still less than 700 squid. not a huge cost to start with.
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quote Scot J:Forgive my ignorance but is “opos” a process, a brand, or what?There are various types of registration marks, which are typically printed symbols that a cutter (with optical eye) can recognize and use for alignment. For a given cutter, refer to its operator manual for the type of registration marks and placement that are required. The OPOS registration mark system is from Summa, and the technical details are here: http://www.summa.be/pages/index.html .
Essentially, the OPOS mark is a 4mm solid black square, printed at the four bounding corners of the graphic, with additional squares printed along the length of the graphic. The number of additional squares is variable, per your confidence that the cutter will retain alignment. However, keep in mind that the more registration marks there are, the more seek operations (i.e., time) that will required by the cutter.
Cheers,
Rod
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