can anyone advise me on buying cutter/printer?

[Peter Normington]

HI Lucy

PC 60, is very old now, Spares are hard to come by, good in its day for small decals but, I wouldnt recommend buying one now, you would be better looking for a second hand gerber edge 1 or 2 and plotter, that is if you need to go down the thermal printer road. gerber are now also more for a specialist market though, printing metalic, and spot white, and onto some materials that inkjets cant.

what do you need a printer for? what type of work will you be doing with it and what is your budget?

BTW you do not need to make another thread on the same question, better to continue using the same one

Peter

Peter

[Shane Drew]

Peter gives good advice Lucy.

I’d urge you to go the second hand Gerber route, or a cheap sp540 perhaps.

I had a PC60 many years ago, and it was slow and expensive to run.

They don’t print photograph prints well either, strictly vector artwork is its niche.

[LucyDrake]

I only have about £1500 to spend so it looks like i will be going into the Chinese market are any of them any good? I do mostly vehicles at the moment got some good contracts but they are pushing for the picture type ads now..

[Ian Muir]

Hi Lucy

Would avoid the chinese route at all costs, likely to bring upset soon down the road if not immediately.

If you are doing more than 4-5 prints a week then look for a reasonable second user, any less it is cheaper overall to farm out to a trade printer I would imagine.

Ian :lol1:

[Robert Lambie]

quote LucyDrake:

looks like i will be going into the Chinese market are any of them any good?

don’t even go there… your opening one large can of worms for yourself.

[Jason Davies]

I would take the advice on the board here, you might as well burn the £1500 if you spend it on a chinese printer/plotter. You won’t get a decent secondhand printer for that price, not even an Edge, the software to run these machines is at least that price. I would recommend subbing this work out for a while, putting some more money together e.g at least 3.5K and then buying a refurbished/secondhand machine, it will save you hours of sorting out printing and maintenance issues.

Unfortunately the Euro is putting pay to any bargains, which is good for established firms but unfortunate for people starting out.

Good luck..

Jason