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On the look out for a new cutter – Budget £400 for a new one
As my redsail is just a little too big to fit in my office I am after something smaller. No bigger than 640mm.
Is there any decent ones out there for £400 new, which can cut 3mm letters with ease.
Ideally one that will take roland blades aswell.
Thanks
Dan
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Unlikely you will find a plotter that will cut 3mm text with ease on the budget you have. For small text & intricate graphics plotters such as graphtec & summa work in tangiential mode. This isn’t available on the chinese plotters as it’s one of the functions they leave off to keep the price of the machines down.
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quote Martin:Unlikely you will find a plotter that will cut 3mm text with ease on the budget you have. For small text & intricate graphics plotters such as graphtec & summa work in tangiential mode. This isn’t available on the chinese plotters as it’s one of the functions they leave off to keep the price of the machines down.My redsail can cut 3mm letters quite well when using thicker vinyl.
If I can’t find a decent second hand cutter nearby then I may just downsize to a smaller redsail.
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quote Daniel Owen:quote Martin:Unlikely you will find a plotter that will cut 3mm text with ease on the budget you have. For small text & intricate graphics plotters such as graphtec & summa work in tangiential mode. This isn’t available on the chinese plotters as it’s one of the functions they leave off to keep the price of the machines down.My redsail can cut 3mm letters quite well when using thicker vinyl.
If I can’t find a decent second hand cutter nearby then I may just downsize to a smaller redsail.
i assume you are talking about 3mm stroke width, not 3mm high letters,
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quote Daniel Owen:My redsail can cut 3mm letters quite well when using thicker vinyl.Didn’t you say on another topic that "And if I cut anything below 10mm, i.e. small lettering it is just making a mess of it. "
Just getting it straight how your redsail is in case you are selling it. Has the new cutting strip sorted it?
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quote David-Foster-:quote Daniel Owen:My redsail can cut 3mm letters quite well when using thicker vinyl.
Didn’t you say on another topic that “And if I cut anything below 10mm, i.e. small lettering it is just making a mess of it. ”
Just getting it straight how your redsail is in case you are selling it. Has the new cutting strip sorted it?
I need to replace the strip and holder and it should be cutting perfect again.
And yes it was able to cut 3mm high letters before the current problem started happening.
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I’ve cleared some room in my office now to fit my redsail in.
But I am now on the hunt for a desktop cutter.
Can anyone recommend one
And here is an example of the size my redsail can easily cut
Not bad considering the cutter only cost me £450
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why do you need another plotter when the one you have does such a good job? or if you are really short of room, just buy a smaller redsail
my mimaki will cut equally well small letters, but in practice why would I want to? any quantity of small lettering would make weeding not cost effective, so print would be a better way to go?
peter
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Eeehhh,
3mm?
2mm?It’s nothing compared to what my Graphtec does, and this is on the bad day…
..I’ll get my coat 😉
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quote Robert Kulawik:Eeehhh,
3mm?
2mm?It’s nothing compared to what my Graphtec does, and this is on the bad day…
..I’ll get my coat 😉
Do you have to use a magnifying glass to weed that, lol
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My god that is good, What settings did you use to get that?
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Hi,
I see that this topic is a little bit old. But I will ask a question and hope to get answer 🙂
@Daniel or someone else: you use Redsail and you said that you can easily cut 3mm high letters.
What are proper settings for cutting so small, what kind of blade, offset etc?
I can cut so small, but letters are cutted very very ugly 🙂Thanks for help.
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