 Why We Love Our New Graphtec CE5000-60 Plotter
Sorry for the double post, but my original post was burried in another thread, and I want people to see this.
THIS design is why we love our Graphtec CE5000-60 plotter.
I saw a shirt with this same basic design on it and I liked it, but I'm not much of a soccer fan, so I decided to do this design myself in CorelDRAW.
I showed my final design to Mark and told him the size of the smallest stars, and he said (and I fully believed him) that no plotter would possibly be able to cut them.
We got our Plotter Thursday and our new heat press Friday, so I decided that I wanted to do a test...just to see what we're capable of. I knew because of this design I could compare the different sized stars and see just how small we can really go.
I started weeding it and had to call Mark over. He was astonished at what I was getting!
So I pressed it on a shirt and took some pictures, one of them on the macro setting. THAT was when we really saw what this cutter was capable of!
There's another thread here that's talking about what settings and blades are needed to cut small, intricate designs on a Roland GX-24. Well, we do all of our cutting (other than reflective) with a 45 degree blade and 30cm/sec cutting speed. I didn't change those settings for this design.
For about $500 less than the Roland (I'm NOT cutting down on the Roland, but I AM saying that there are other options out there) we got this machine which will also do contour-cutting (we haven't done that yet).
It's a little confusing at first when you initially set it up, but once you do, you WON'T be sorry. |