Discuss the various aspects of heat pressed vinyl transfers. Popular and new types of vinyl media, suppliers, vinyl cutters /plotters, press times, quality, how to instructions and more can be found in this heat press sub forum.
wow is it.. the things you can do with it to make money.. I bought mine used from a friend for $350.. And it has paid for its self many times over and I have had it for 8 months. I am not only doing tee shirts but signs as well. I just got my second trucking company deal this week to supply numbers and door names to the trucks.. And I do not have to install them. $2.00 in sign vinyl gets me $40. bucks.. Look at the big picture..
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Hi Chrissy, I don't have a cutter yet, however when I do purchase one it will be the Roland gx24, that seems to be the big daddy. Does anyone have any experience with the Stitka model? I've been thinking of going that route until I can afford the big one. Thanks!
I have just been trying set up my new Graphtec ce5000-60. It's hell and so much hassle. When we look for info on the net, all you get is Roland, so I wish I went with them instead, there's so much more support out there for it.
Best of luck.
Roland is definately highly recommended, you can always call Josh at imprintables warehouse, he will answer any questions you may have and God knows I've asked some pretty stupid ones
I have a Stika STX-7 I bought with my vinyl business. I don't recommend them for a serious vinyl business simply becuse they are sooooo slow at 4inches per second. If I was going to buy a super cheap unit it would probably be the Graphtec Craft Robo becaue it has the optical eye to do cutouts on opaque transfers but you still would have a lot of limitations. You would be better off with one of the 24" CoPams with the optics fo just a little bit more.
I told my wife that I am worried that my JSI might not hold up under the number of jobs I am doing. When I go to the show in August in Long Beach I will give a look at what iss out there. At this point I may get the Roland if push comes to shove. But I want to see some samples of other machines and software in action.
__________________ There is a center to everything.. I found mine at.. www.heatpressessentials.com TEE SQUARE IT, LOGO IT! TEE PAD IT!www.tbiz101.com (New)Heat Transfer Education
Hi Chrissy, I don't have a cutter yet, however when I do purchase one it will be the Roland gx24, that seems to be the big daddy. Does anyone have any experience with the Stitka model? I've been thinking of going that route until I can afford the big one. Thanks!
Jenn
I recently purchased the Stika 15". I ran into some problems with getting it set-up for OSX and Vista. The support could be a little better. But as for cutting, I haven't had any problems. It's loud and slow, but so far no complaints. Josh at Imprintables was a great help. just couldn't afford the big boy (GX-24) yet. Now I just need to get out and make some money with it.
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Thanx for all the input gang....
I guess we will save our pennies.....and our 5cent bottle return deposits so we can buy this plotter cutter....
thank you again
you guys rock!!!
chrissy
Lost1, thank you so much. This contains exactly the information I was looking for on the internet until 3am last night. I can't understand why this didn't come with my machine. You're a life saver! I'll tackle it tomorrow after I've catched up on some sleep. Thanks again.
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