CaptainCurtis
New Member
Hi All,
I am in the market for a flatbed plotter and we are strongly focused towards the Summa F-Series having owned plenty of Summa products in the past and always being very happy with their performance.
We have a few reasons for wanting a flatbed, i won't go into most as i can find answers for all of that elsewhere, however, onto the reason i do need some advice with and what we want to make it achieve; we create a lot of graphics kits for motor manufactueres. Things such as stripe and decal kits that are supplied on mass, 100's if not 1000's at a time, all of these graphics kits are generally printed and then cut on our plotters, weeded, carrier tape applied and then will have controlled edges that we will hand cut the graphics kits to. So for example if a stripe kit goes perfectly down the swage line on a van, we'll cut the applicatin tape and wax paper to a shape that perfectly lines up with the panel edges on the van, so they are easily installed in the same place every time.
The lengthly process here is the hand cutting of all of these controlled edges so the plan is to buy a flatbed plotter to try and cut this process out. We'd be looking to print, cut, weed all graphics, apply carrier tape then return the graphics back to the flatbed, re-register and then cut out the graphics to our controlled edges.
Does anyone have any experience of trying this? Difficult to explain but i hope this makes some sort of sense.
TIA, Edd.
I am in the market for a flatbed plotter and we are strongly focused towards the Summa F-Series having owned plenty of Summa products in the past and always being very happy with their performance.
We have a few reasons for wanting a flatbed, i won't go into most as i can find answers for all of that elsewhere, however, onto the reason i do need some advice with and what we want to make it achieve; we create a lot of graphics kits for motor manufactueres. Things such as stripe and decal kits that are supplied on mass, 100's if not 1000's at a time, all of these graphics kits are generally printed and then cut on our plotters, weeded, carrier tape applied and then will have controlled edges that we will hand cut the graphics kits to. So for example if a stripe kit goes perfectly down the swage line on a van, we'll cut the applicatin tape and wax paper to a shape that perfectly lines up with the panel edges on the van, so they are easily installed in the same place every time.
The lengthly process here is the hand cutting of all of these controlled edges so the plan is to buy a flatbed plotter to try and cut this process out. We'd be looking to print, cut, weed all graphics, apply carrier tape then return the graphics back to the flatbed, re-register and then cut out the graphics to our controlled edges.
Does anyone have any experience of trying this? Difficult to explain but i hope this makes some sort of sense.
TIA, Edd.
