novice trying to understand cutters

[Paul]

As John said. you geting what you payed for. but belive me. I cutted some akwared designs on my cutter and it cut perfect!

[John G]

Yeh!, they can do very intricate designs but I was talking about running 2 or 3 metres of vinyl through, without it running off.

[Kaz]

Not tried anything like that yet John, most it's ran through is about half a metre at once, and it didn't run off

[Paul]

ooo. never done nothing like this. i think is for banners? I do only for my t-shirts. again. money well spend.

[mrs maggot]

today i have run just under 10mts of white vinyl 4 mtrs of red through my cutter, not sign vinyl just a load of t shirt stuff - lined up and running perfectly, but then i do have a nice creation P cut that i have had for a few years now, never missed a beat (touching wood) and now own a 2nd one

[John G]

I do signs for industrial units on ali composite panels which are around 2440 x 610 and used to do advertising hoarding for a football ground which were 3m x 1m foamex. long wheel base vw sprinters are a decent length too!

If it was a run of single colour text i'd run it at 3m but sometimes mine would struggle with the tracking so would have to patch and replace certain letters.

Like I said though - more than happy with my cheap Chinese Dingtec plotter which paid for itself after its first 3 jobs - 7 years ago.

[mrs maggot]

thing is john 7 years ago the chinese were turning out decent stuff, now they churn out copies of copies each one cheaper than the last, mark has a motorcycle business, and its the same there - stuff gets cheaper and cheaper

[John G]

WOW - don't think mine would do a continuous run (line of text) of 10 mts + If its just a load of single logos put together like a jigsaw it would as it doesn't matter about registration, but a line of text it would run off near the end and the text wouldn't be in a straight line. maybe a need some new clamp wheels or whatever they are called.

[John G]

True, alot changes in 7 years

[mrs maggot]

i normally run mine through and then back again, so the amount im going to use is unwound and then wound back on the roll, looser than pulling it straight off if that makes sense, that normally avoids a run off, but John mine was a run of t shirt vinyl, not 1 long run of a logo or slogan, just 10mts of prints in one continuous cut. it the static and how tight its run that i think affects its pull though, hence why i always run it through first.

a couple of weeks ago i gave my gritted rollers a brush over, and i think they are the better for it - the grip feels better