What are you cutting stickers with?

I screen print large orders and cut my gang print on my challenger cutter.

 

If your workload is increasing so fast, you must be too cheap. Up your prices and then you can afford a better guillotine cutter and can cut like a 100 at a shot.


Or pay some monkey to come in and do it at night.

 

Yes, I can.............. and I just did.

No, it's not always the case, but when one's business is set up for smaller scaled orders and suddenly becomes overwhelmed and nothing has changed.... word doesn't get around that you're too expensive or you'd start losing business. Sometimes your quality gets better, your service gets better or maybe your work vastly improves... and those are all reasons to increase your prices. If you're getting better all around, then charge for it. The only people I know that are working like a one-armed paper hanger are those working too cheap.

Now, I'll agree, you might pick up an account here or there and maybe a big one or two..... or three, but if you have to suddenly start discussing this in the shop how to produce faster..... well, I'll stick to your prices are too cheap, because you're not making money anymore.

If the word 'Cheap' offends you, then let's just say, you're leaving money on the table.

 

http://www.fotoba.com/index.php/en/products Those'll cut a whole roll for you, but they're pretty pricey. Have you thought of using the CustomCut feature in Versaworks? You can have the machine do a sheet cut after each row and then stack those strips up and cut several at once.

 

orders of 1000, 2000, 5000? Those go to Stouse. Not worth it to cut all those down. I can do a buttload of other work while Stouse prints and cuts those.

 

This,

why bother and this way it is on a roll for the customer.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvYTTogtmQM&feature=player_embedded Same deal as this except you'd be setting it up to sheet cut every row.

 

We screen print larger orders 1k+ and digitally print smaller orders. With screen print orders its straight from the press to the slitter and then to our 54" guillotine and cut with in minutes. Digitally prints are hand trimmed to a manageable size and then to the guillotine.

 

thanks for the link to my video! Glad it helped some

 

Could outsource it Matt, Stouse does die-cuts really cheap IMO and you don't need to sit there killing yourself.

 

www.tradenetcatalog.com They print and UV coat them on an HP Indigo press and die cut them on a web system with steel rule dies....

 

This is how you do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOHuZI-VPZ8

 

guillotine cutter for square and die cut for shape....back in the day (1990-94) we had a local off-set printer guillotine cut our large volume....he quit doing it cause the adhesive gummed up his blades.

Jasonx, my guys go faster than that on a manual shear cutter...cool machine though.

 

Heavy duty parallel blade guillotine - staple strips together- cuts
very fast. About $200 I think

 

WE use the customcut on the roland for jobs in the hundreds, but be warned, keep a spare cutting strip (you are slicing through backing paper) and watch for blade wear. In the thousands we outsource.

 

I have a Gerber EnVision 375 and it's setup to contour cut our Edge prints and then flip the vinyl over and backcut the decals do they "pop out" and also puts a split seam for easier removal of the backer.

 

Yep, this is what I do when they can print on the Edge FX! Works slick 'n' stuff like that!

Some great ideas on this thread though. That parallel blade guillotine looks interesting... but then again, I have a Challenge 24" cutter for cases like this!