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Can anyone recommend a decent opos cutter for upto A4 size?
Just looking for cheapish (£200-£300) a4 sized cutter with opos for cutting t-shirt transfers… Seen the graphtec cc200-220 craft robo on the magic touch for £225+vat but there seems to be a fair few people reporting teething problems with this unit on the t-shirt forums.
http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/hardware/craftrobo.htm
Purely going to be used for a4 sized t-shirt transfers so doesn’t need to be a big flashy several thousand £ machine.. Recommendations for other machines or feedback on this one welcome
thanks in advance 🙂
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Paul. Have a look at the new Craft Robo CC330-20. Google for best prices. I found a retailer doing them for £199 plus vat.
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thanks for the shout mark, will look for reviews & prices 🙂
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just thought it might help someone else in future but I did end up buying a Graphtec CraftROBO c330 direct from the graphtec website…
I was doing a run of around 100-150 shirts with flex lettering cut on my big summa d120, but with printed transfers (The Magic Touch OBM 5.6) which needed contour cutting.
I couldn’t justify spending more than a few hundred quid on a cutter which would only be used for small a4 sized jobs, so I stumped up the £200+vat (235 in total at the time)…
It took a little bit of setting up with the instructions, and I phoned graphtec to try and get my head around the registration mark plug-in for CorelDraw, but once I’d gotten it working, I was off and away.
The accuracy is within 1-2mm, which, for a budget machine seems fairly reasonable. Also, in the time it took to cut one transfer by hand, the CraftROBO could contour cut 5 transfers on a single a4 sheet! This sped up the whole process a great deal.
The only two niggles:
The software & setup took a little while but once it’s working, it’s brilliant…
The O-POS sensor can be a bit grumpy if the registration marks aren’t at the very top of the leading edge of the material being loaded – sometimes you have to take the material out and trim off any excess space so that the reg marks are within 15mm of the leading edge…
Here’s a video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XF0IG-3J48
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