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How do you supply labels?
We manufacture a lot of labels for customers and supply these either cut into sheets or on a roll either 760mm or 380mm dependent upon customer preference. However we always have customers asking for us to supply these on smaller rolls. I think the smallest roll we can print onto on our smallest machine is 160mm, this is not cost effective and I am aware that many of these customers then go down the flexi route which is not always suitable for them but does meet their needs in terms of storage of their labels and ease of use.
How do you supply labels?
I have never seen a ‘slitter’ working but is this a machine that is available to buy? This would make sense as we can then slit down to 70mm.
We are also in the process of upgrading printers and were going to buy the VS machines. These are limited to minimum print widths are there more flexible machines on the market which will print onto smaller widths which we could directly order from our vinyl suppliers??
Any advice greatly appreciated or workarounds?
Thanks
Jason
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Hi Jason,
I don’t know much about your type of printing but i’ve imported a plotter from this company in the past and it went pretty smoothly.http://www.eastsign.com/table_slitter.html
Cheers John
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quote Jason Davies:Thanks John, I was also looking at this one:http://www.smartslitters.com/en/baby.php4
Jason
You could probably achieve the same result with a hand held rotary cutter on a vinyl roller (but probably not straight after the New Year)
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I do my labels on rolls using: http://www.primeralabel.com/fx1200_features.html
Also have the CX1200 and Memjet Roll To Roll printers.
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Thanks Jason that looks just the job. I’ll have a look for a UK distributor.
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That looks like a terrific bit of kit Jason but you must have to be into label production in a big way to make something like that pay for itself.
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Here you go Jason
http://www.ktecgroup.co.uk/index.htmlWe looked at this some time ago but felt we needed the cutter aswell and as Martin said, you need to to produce a lot of labels as they don’t come cheap! unless your a rich Aussi 😀
John
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Even if you got a table top slitter to just slit down rolls they aren’t necessarily cheap.
http://www.labelpower.com.au/categories … litters-1/
Nothing to produce labels on rolls is cheap and being being compared to plotters and such. I guess they don’t sell enough of the equipment to lower the cost so even sometimes you look at a piece of equipment and can’t really see the value.
We make our business model work and have carved out a niche within our industry. Most of the products we produce are customer driven our customers provide the demand and we provide the solutions.
This cutter is a pretty good piece of kit (Getting in on the lingo :P)
I’m currently doing 120,000 labels split across three different artworks at the moment. I can cut them quicker then if I had to send out to get dies made and shipped back to me. Best thing is I have the machine in my production environment so it hums all day long and doesn’t require much intervention from me. It laminates, removes waste slits and takes up in one go.
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Your right Jason in terms of the slitters. A minimum of £5K for a basic one seems to be the going price. We have an engineering works near to us so I have commisioned them to build us one, will keep all informed of its progress if you are interested.
Jason
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