WiseDesign
New Member
Hello,
I am looking for recommendations for a small vinyl cutter to use at home. The decals are for RC cars and it would need to be very accurate, and be able to recognize registration marks on metallic vinyls (mainly chrome). I'll attach a couple of the ones I've made at work.
The reason for me looking to cut these at home is because I don't want to rely on the production guy at work being able to get to them done in a timely manner, or having my boss get annoyed by the amount of decals I've been making. Plus, I have to pay a little bit each time I make some. It's a decent arrangement now, but I don't know how long this will work out for.
We've been using an HP latex and a large graphtec cutter with flexi.
My idea is to print them at work, and cut them at home. The production guy is getting frustrated with our cutter finding the registration marks on chrome and I don't want my side gig to be a burden to him or waste his time. The printing has been going very smooth and quick however.
Ideally, I think most of the RC decals are made with a gerber edge or something similar to that, but I'm not sure if that would even be in my price range. The number in my head was around 2k that I'd like to spend but maybe that's unrealistic.
Would a graphtec 15" cutter be a good solution to this situation? Maybe I start out with getting a small cutter at home and work my way up to purchasing a printer later on? Any print/cut machines I should be aware of?
Thank you in advance for any insight. I'm pretty new to making decals and I'm just trying to think about my options.
I am looking for recommendations for a small vinyl cutter to use at home. The decals are for RC cars and it would need to be very accurate, and be able to recognize registration marks on metallic vinyls (mainly chrome). I'll attach a couple of the ones I've made at work.
The reason for me looking to cut these at home is because I don't want to rely on the production guy at work being able to get to them done in a timely manner, or having my boss get annoyed by the amount of decals I've been making. Plus, I have to pay a little bit each time I make some. It's a decent arrangement now, but I don't know how long this will work out for.
We've been using an HP latex and a large graphtec cutter with flexi.
My idea is to print them at work, and cut them at home. The production guy is getting frustrated with our cutter finding the registration marks on chrome and I don't want my side gig to be a burden to him or waste his time. The printing has been going very smooth and quick however.
Ideally, I think most of the RC decals are made with a gerber edge or something similar to that, but I'm not sure if that would even be in my price range. The number in my head was around 2k that I'd like to spend but maybe that's unrealistic.
Would a graphtec 15" cutter be a good solution to this situation? Maybe I start out with getting a small cutter at home and work my way up to purchasing a printer later on? Any print/cut machines I should be aware of?
Thank you in advance for any insight. I'm pretty new to making decals and I'm just trying to think about my options.
