Do Gerber do a desktop printer/plotter?

[Peter Normington]

this is there site http://www.spandex.co.uk/pdfs/Plotters/ … cSheet.pdf
Do you specificly need a gerber, and if so can you tell us why?
peter

[Smithdd]

The link above seems to be for a cutter, do Gerber do a printer also,

[Peter Normington]

Same site just go up a few levels or click on the menu
Peter

[Peter Normington]

http://www.spandex.co.uk/
mian page sorry last ink was for the pdf doc

[Robert Lambie]

although a desktop printer/cutter, its not neccessarily compact. the cutter is one machine and the printer another. its not as labour free as other print & cut machines on the go and costs about the same but has higher running costs.
unless you have a specific market for this type of printer, ide go for a solvent printer/cutter. saves you on labour, running costs & offers a realistic width.

just my opinion of course… 🙄

[Smithdd]

Thanks for your help chaps, I think I had best go see my friend again and ask exactly her requirements. The reason for wanting a Gerber was that (well here goes) I have recently been made redundant from my IT job. I visited a friend who runs a sign manufacturers and she said that they have to buy in quite a few small lables and small signs and that if I had a gerber machine she would pass all of the work to me. but I think I need to find out exactly wat labels ect.. she needs and see if any other machine does the same job

Cheers

[Kevin.Beck]

Smithdd

Don`t want to rock your boat too much….

If your friend had enough work to justify buying an edge, she`d get one straight away.

if she can`t afford to buy one with the work she`s getting, you`ll struddle with the work she gives you.

Don`t let that stop you getting one, as they are great machines ( i`ve got one) but don`t pin all your hopes on her geving you work to run the machine..

£8000 new, is alot of dosh to cough up in the hope your friend will give you work.

Mind you, can`t falt her game plan…

[Smithdd]

yeah good thought, I think at £8k I will have to wait a while. May go back to plan A buy a plotter for pre spaced lettering. Can anyone recommend a good startup plotter and what software to use

[Andrew Bennett]

Best place to look is right here in the on-line shop mate

[Adrian Hewson]

If you friend is going to give you so much work instead of buying a printer wy not sub out the work in the initial stages to someone who has a gerber. I am sure there are a lot of people on this site that have gerber printers who ae not fully utilised and they could give you a very good price and you would then have the best of both worlds.

Just ask on the boards for a quote

If you then find out that there is masses of work you could buy your own printer

Regards Adrian

[Andy Gorman]

Kitting yourself out with only a Gerber edge and accompanying plotter seems a bit limiting – they only cut at a maximum of 336mm high and the maximum print size is only 300mm. I would probably start off with at least a 600mm wide cutter. If you are intent on getting into digital printing, there are machines available with much more to offer than the Edge. The Versacamm and Cadet, for example. Starting a business based upon the promise of some work from 1 person is a bit of a gamble. I’d start with a cutter and build up from there. Of course, you already have some basic signmaking skills…………..?