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  • Advice needed on the Graphtec Craft Robo vinyl cutter?

    Posted by William James on 2 June 2012 at 22:24

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    Can anyone tell me anything about the Craft robo please i understand they are made by Graphtec i am looking for a small vinyl cutter 12 inch wide would be great is this the machine for me?

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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    2 June 2012 at 22:35

    the craft rob is a great little machine for the hobbyist and craft worker. but it is far from a sign makers tool.

    save your money and go for an entry level vinyl cutter. Graphtec do them and only cost a few hundred pounds more.

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    2 June 2012 at 22:37

    Depends what you want it for really, it’s a craft machine aimed at the hobby market so not really ideal as a production machine in a sign shop where it will get a lot of use. Not sure if it can handle roll media or not but you would still need to get rolls of vinyl slit down if it did.

  • Colin Crabb

    Member
    3 June 2012 at 13:17

    As above, more aimed at the hobbyist market for scrap booking & card making.
    If you spend a little more and stay with Graphtec your be able to feed 610mm rolls AND still use the robocraft GSD files for cutting/scrapbooking the cards/boxes if you wish (I keep a separate blade for these jobs).

    (I’m not 100% sure but I think the robocraft uses its own software, so your unable to cut from Illustator / Corel ?????)

  • Gordon Galloway

    Member
    5 June 2012 at 16:13

    You can cut from Corel.

  • Gwaredd Steele

    Member
    6 June 2012 at 16:47

    The Craft Robo is the dot matrix printer of the plotter world. Slow, noisy & difficult to set up right.

    Do as others have suggested & get yourself a proper plotter. I’d imagine an old Roland 12" or 24" plotter could be had for relative peanuts on eBay now.

    Roland 12"

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