The main differences between SummaCut D and S-Class are as follows:
Appearance/Finish
As can be seen on the pictures of the website, the stands of the S-Plotters are much more massiv/stable as the stands of the SummaCuts. You can see and feel the difference for example during high speed plotting, or when pushing the plotters from one place to another specially on uneven grounds (there is more torsion/vibrations on the SummaCuts). The rollers on the back of the machine were you put the media rolls on have a two to three times bigger diameter on the S-Class as on the SummaCuts.
The Basket of the SummaCuts are guided through horizontal rods: so if you don't have the basket in the way in front of the plotter, you will have the rods. The S-Class basket can be completely collapsed back to the stand.
Usability
The SummaCut have a one line LCD-Display to operate the machine. Even for everyday used features like knife pressure or speed you should need Enter a Menu and scroll, enter a Submenu and so on. If having direct light on this display or a big viewing angle, you will have difficulties to read whats on the menu (like every other LCD-Display). The S-Class 2 have a coloured, light, brillant (active matrix as far as I think) Touchscreen-Display, every important functionality can be accessed through the Home screen by just one touch of the finger, one submenu-listing will have multiple items just to touch on (not only one at a time), with numeric input is no need to scroll, for most of that features is a numeric keypad available and so on.
The SummaCut have 4 User Configurations (User 1 to User 4), the S-Class have 8 which can be freely named (for example the vinyl type and so on).
Connectivity
The SummaCut have one USB-port and one serial Port. The S-Class 2 have USB, Network and a USB A-Port for plugging in USB-Sticks to plot plt-files directly from this stick. A possible application: your printer and RIP-Software is not in the room in which you do regular plot jobs. On the S-Class, you could output contour jobs to a file, put it on a stick and do the contour jobs from that stick.
Other technical features
- Automatic Cut-Off feature on the S-Class (manual knife on the SummaCut)
- OPOS X-Sensor will be lowered and rised from head mechanics (on the SummaCut the head will be moved to plastic pins to lower it mechanically), so less head movement when doing contour cuts
- SummaCut 800mm/Sek. axial speed, S-Class 1'000mm/Sek., as far as I remember higher acceleration on S-Class too
- Additional add-ons possible like additional pinch rollers, media rack, take-up-unit and so on
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I work at a summa dealer in switzerland, and 90% of the units we sell are S-Class Tangential. We have mostly professional customers, in other markets the sells could differ.
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