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Has anyone had experience of Fotoba cutters?
I’m toying with the idea of buying a Fotoba cutter. I prefer the price of the WR61 but realistically its looking like the XLD in terms of what we need to do with it… (£33K!!!!)
Has anyone got either of these machines? How do you find them?We have a large regular job to do of stickers at around 800 x 300mm. The stickers are full colour printed and then laminated, so will be rewound by hand back on to the roll – obviously we’ll never rewind it as it would be done in a factory and apparently this is why we need the pricey one as it can correct itself when there’s ‘run off’.
These Fotoba cutters appear to be the only thing on the market to do this kind of work – unless anyone can tell me any different?
We’ve tried the Graphtec method and while it’s ok on smaller stickers, it won’t cope with thousands of these bigger stickers.
I’d appreciate anything anyone can tell me!
Many thanks!
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do you know which cut line detection accuracy we could expect from such device?
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I can chime in here. I used to own a WR75.
For what you guys are doing I’d go with the XLD170.
What size rolls will you be printing on and what orientation will you have the stickers?
The problem with the roll cuts is that it doesn’t correct itself. So if you don’t load the roll perfectly straight and the prints on the roll aren’t running perfectly straight then you will have problems with accuracy.
The XLD lets you run wider material so you could have two stickers side by side and reduce waste.
I can tell you though that these things are FAST. You will cut down a full 50 metre roll in no time at all. The graphtec will still be registering the reg marks and you’ve already cut 20 stickers.
If I had the volume of work on the larger sized stickers to justify the equipment I’d have no problems justifying purchasing one.
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Also if your using versaworks it can automatically add the fotoba marks in your print runs. Pretty sure Onyx does this too.
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Thanks for the advise. I must admit that it is looking like the XLD but i like to be able to make comparisons and check things when spending a large amount of money!
We’d be printing on our AJ740 for this particular job. We’d probably print the stickers 4 up on the roll continuously. -
Yeh I agree. If you were doing like 2m by 1m posters the roll cut is fine because even if your off 5mm and you’ve got 10mm bleeds no one is really going to tell. But with smaller items that tracking off can make a big difference.
Keep running perfectly true can be hard. What was also a slight pain is if it started to track off you’d need to pause it and re align it and go again. Kind of defeats the purpose of having such a device.
The XLD looks perfect and it looks FAST. You’ll be cutting quicker than you’ll be printing using your XJ.
I had to cut up a few rolls once of A4 sheets had kiss cut stickers we wanted sheeted. It did the whole roll in about 20 minutes. Pretty good in my books.
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