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Help for a newbie with lots of questions!
- Thread starter shoprat
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Me... I ain't the world's number one Roland fan I have to say. If I had to buy a new cutter today it'd be a Summa or a Vytek (if they still make them).
You gotta admit the whole colour camm thing was poorly thought out and badly executed- all that pulling an pushing to lay down the colours was going to end in tears. I was gutted at the time as I thought it would have been a nice little machine to have- until the interior shot of those evil cartridges appeared on page 2 of the brochure. Roland were hardly giving the machine away either- for proper money you would expect a proper bit of kit- from memory they were about 6 grand sterling.
I got stung by another manufacturer who sold me two complete piles of junk- I was doing most of their R&D at one point LOL. Hence my phobia of the words "digital" and "printing"
Never again.
Roland pinched or bought the ribbon idea from Citizen/ Alps- if they had ever bothered to try printing with a citizen/ alps printer they would have figured out it wasn't much cop as an idea. To my knowledge their whole ribbon technology has been abandoned.
You gotta admit the whole colour camm thing was poorly thought out and badly executed- all that pulling an pushing to lay down the colours was going to end in tears. I was gutted at the time as I thought it would have been a nice little machine to have- until the interior shot of those evil cartridges appeared on page 2 of the brochure. Roland were hardly giving the machine away either- for proper money you would expect a proper bit of kit- from memory they were about 6 grand sterling.
I got stung by another manufacturer who sold me two complete piles of junk- I was doing most of their R&D at one point LOL. Hence my phobia of the words "digital" and "printing"
Never again.Roland pinched or bought the ribbon idea from Citizen/ Alps- if they had ever bothered to try printing with a citizen/ alps printer they would have figured out it wasn't much cop as an idea. To my knowledge their whole ribbon technology has been abandoned.
njsigns
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andy said:
I would, based on my own personal experience, have to disagree. I too have been using Alps printers, for many years now, and have had great results with them. So naturally, for me, when I saw technology I was familiar and comfortable with in the PC-12, I made a purchase (and believe me it was after considerable deliberation). I would have rather have purchased a VersaCamm, it simply wasn't in my budget.
I agree the PC-12 was probably trying to be a poor mans Edge. Honestly I researched for a few years to find a "better solution" than I had. Being a very satisfied owner of another Roland (a 15" Stika at the time) I felt comfortable buying.
Before finding this forum, I didn't even know that the Gerber Edge had existed. Maybe my research had failed me, but I still own a Roland GX-24, a PC-12 and 3 Alps printers 2 MD-5000's and an old MD-1000. Most of what I had been doing until 2-3 years ago was smaller stickers and transfers for t-shirts and mousepads etc.
Do I wish I could trade them all in for a 30" VersaCamm? You betcha! But I have yet to find anyone willing to bite on that offer.
Until I can logically afford a wide format digital printer, I guess I just gotta keep doing what I've been doing. It's worked for me thus far.
Gene
