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what would be best a cadet or cadet plus for wraps?
We plan to buy a Cadet in the next few weeks (if Santa is feeling generous). We want to get into offering digital prints and full wraps to our customers. Can full wraps be done on the 30" Cadet or would we need the Cadet Plus?
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Well, it can be done, but you will have a lot of unsightly joins.
Better to go bigger and avoid as much of that sort of thing as you can.
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John /Dawn
30 inch or 54?
both can be used for wraps I could even do one with me little old gerber.
but there are other things to consider,
speed of fitting
floorspace
material size and storage space
size of vehicles you intend to wrap (40′ trailers would take a week to print on a cadet)
In general I would take santas advice,buy the biggest and best you can afford, but buy to satisfy your own market.
no point in buying a ferarri, if you are restricted by speed limits. sorry bad analogy, but you know what I mean,Peter
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another point to remeber dawn…….going for the 54" you have to remember you would need another pair of hands to help out 😀
nik
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You can definately do it with the 30", but think of all of the seams you will have in the wrap. Lining multiple seams up over compound curves is no fun, especially if you have multiple ones. Do yourself the favor an go with the larger unit. Look at it this way, if you buy the larger one you can always use smaller material but not vice versa. We tend to use 48" rolls of material and print using 44" tiles w/ a .5" overlap but we can go up to 98" rolls of we need to for banners etc. A full 48" x 150′ roll takes a little less than 4 hours printing @ 720/Uni-directional in 4-pass quality mode.
Printing panels @ 44" w/ a .5" overlap takes usually 13 full panels w/ one little sliver of a panel for each side of a 580" trailer. We usually get about 17 panels out of a roll and each panel is 101" for the trailers we print.
Sorry for the inch measurements I know we are the only country that uses them lol
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George, what printer are you using, its certainly not a cadet at that sort of speed, can you translate into simple terms? how long does it take, to print 60′ x 96"(one side of a trailer) and how long to apply?
Peter
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