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Small cutter / Roland Stika 8" or Craft Robo ?
I’m new to the forums, so hello all 🙂
I work in a small vinyl cutting place, we use Roland GX24 cutters. However at home I am planning on making stickers for model cars, and that’s all. Every sticker I cut will be small and only about 10-20 per week max. This will be for at least a year hopefully, so I really don;t see the point in buying a large fast cutter for my needs.
My question is, what do you guys recommend from these 2 cutters? Will they be ok for what I want to use them for or are they really that bad ?
Looking through the forums, people opinions are not good of them. However I can’t seem to find anyone who has actually used them, all I seem to see is "stay away from them, sloooow, " etc.
Maybe there is an alternative mini? cutter to these? My budget is very max £350
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated 🙂
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My wife purchased a craft robo on Sunday as she is BIG into scrap booking.
I’m pretty impressed with what it can do, but its not good enough for commercial use by any means.
I am impressed with the size of the text it can cut, and would probably lend itself to doing model work like you have suggested.
I wouldn’t say don’t buy one for what you want to use it for, but anyone wanting to get into the ‘serious’ side of the industry would be wasting their time. You’ll find most of the negative advice would be in that regard.
If you don’t expect a lot, you will not be disappointed. 😉 Constant work for a year may be its limit I guess.
Welcome to the boards too. Its good to have you here.
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Thanks for you reply, I’m thinking more in the way of the craft robo as the more i read about it on the net the better it seems compared to the stika. And also with a 2 years warranty, if it doesn’t last me a year and I don’t actually damage the machine myself then the warranty should cover this also i presume.
And thanks also for the welcome 🙂
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