• I want to thank all the members that have upgraded your accounts. I truly appreciate your support of the site monetarily. Supporting the site keeps this site up and running as a lot of work daily goes on behind the scenes. Click to Support Signs101 ...

Looking for a new Graphtec

D

Dave213

New Member
Primaly need great cutting forces since I 99% of the time use 20mil (vinyl+laminate).
Was looking to buy a new FC8600 to cut-contour laminated prints but just got a deal on a used FC7000 who look in great shape.

So my question is what you guys would do ?
And will the FC7000 will work great for print/cut with my Sp540V?

Thanks.
 
C

Carlitoes

New Member
Dave213 said:
Primaly need great cutting forces since I 99% of the time use 20mil (vinyl+laminate).
Was looking to buy a new FC8600 to cut-contour laminated prints but just got a deal on a used FC7000 who look in great shape.

So my question is what you guys would do ?
And will the FC7000 will work great for print/cut with my Sp540V?

Thanks.
Click to expand...
Hello,
I just retired and have a FC8000-75 that has about 50 hours on it.. whatever you think it is worth...
 
W

woolly

New Member
So what cutter were you using
you will need to change your workflow but works well with a roland .
Presume 20mil to be Mx type materials our fc 7000 did do it but not without problems
Found a flat bed graphtec and all problems disappeared.
The 7000 has since died but found a mk2 there really is a difference but the flat bed is the tool for the job.
 
D

Dave213

New Member
woolly said:
So what cutter were you using
you will need to change your workflow but works well with a roland .
Presume 20mil to be Mx type materials our fc 7000 did do it but not without problems
Found a flat bed graphtec and all problems disappeared.
The 7000 has since died but found a mk2 there really is a difference but the flat bed is the tool for the job.
Click to expand...

I currently use my SP540 for cutting but i'm loosing too much time since I can't print if i'm cutting my prints.
Flatbed was my first choice but they are hard to find in canada, called a couple of graphtec dealer and they don't have them, don't distribute these line or don't want to... kind of sad but i'm looking for alternative and the currency is killing me if I want to buy in US.

BigfishDM said:
You should consider the flatbed model for that application.
Click to expand...

Was looking for this, the cutter was a ''in between'', flatbed cutter are hard to find here,
will look again. thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top