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What are your thoughts on the pc60 please?
Hi guys
We’re often asked to produce small quantities of printed vinyl for both textiles and car decals. Although we can produce stuff like this using products from The Magictouch and the like, it’s not really satisfactory.
Of course we’d love to have a Versacamm VP300 but this would be a major investment for us and at the present time we don’t have the volume of work to justify the expense. It’s bit ‘chicken & egg’, if we had one we’d tout for business and who knows – well, you guys might 🙂
So there’s a Roland PC60 Colour Camm Vinyl Printer/Cutter for sale. What would be the going price for one of these? Are they worth it? Do they work 🙂 Perhaps at sometime you’ve been in the same situation.
Any advice, comments or whatever would be appreciated. Perhaps we should go for the VP300!!!
Cheers
John
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Hi John
we are probably the least qualified to answer your question. our only claim to fame is we were in exactly the same position and went for the PC60. My advise to you would be save for the solvent print and cut. the quality we get from our PC60 is not as good as the later machines but that could be just us however the ribbons are not cheap and this makes your images a lot more expensive to produce there for Tyre kickers go else where. what worries me is that we may get a reputation for charging over the top prices. To try to avoid this we sell at very near our cost prices and still have trouble matching solvent prices. There is no doubt that once you have a printer, printing type work seems to arrive at your door. this may of course be a mind set on our behalf. in closing save for the later model.
Cheers Mike 😀 -
Thanks for the reply Mike.
It’s a difficult decision to spend money 🙂
Also looked at the Gerber Edge range but don’t know enough about them!
Cheers
John
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John
if you search the boards, there are a lot of threads re the PC 60 and the PC 600. Well worth the searchPeter
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I used to have a PC60, not a bad machine but there were often print quality issues as I would print onto non standard vinyls. Most problems were due to the narrow ribbons. You can print materials that are not possible with the likes of the versacamm.
I now have an old Gerber Edge, and although limited by print width, the ribbon is around 297mm wide and it prints along the length of the media giving a far superior print.
The idea with the thermal ribbon printers is to print using spot colours wherever possible, a single spot colour on the edge is not a bad price against an inkjet print of a spot colour, but is again a superior quality.
A PC60 will be cheaper to buy than an Edge, but not as cheap to run, and there are more spot colours available for the Edge.Frank
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Thanks for the replies guys, all very interesting and thanks to Peter for sorting me out on the phone 🙂
I’m looking at a couple of Gerber’s just now as it seems to be a better solution for us.
I feel another learning curve coming on!
John
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