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We've had our Graphtec CE5000 for years and it's been brilliant.

I am another fan of Graphtec - got the CE 5000-60 and love it, out the box and off you go. I think it depends on your budget, I have basically nothing and I was going to go with a P Cut but there was so much negative press about them, I begged and borrowed for the graphtec and I think for my needs (garment vinyl, core-ex signage,vehicle vinyl) it is more than a match and anything more would have been overkill. Plus there is 2 years warranty.
I went to MDP in Craigavon - Paul was great and went through everything and never tried to "oversell".

Well i hope your right, i did some reading over the weekend and just bought a second hand graphtec cd 5000-60 from ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0742435409 so lets see how that gets on :)just need the electrician to turn up and install some more power points now grrrr only been three weeks.

ptholt;31178 wrote:Well i hope your right, i did some reading over the weekend and just bought a second hand graphtec cd 5000-60 from ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0742435409 so lets see how that gets on :)just need the electrician to turn up and install some more power points now grrrr only been three weeks.

Great stuff - getting nearer!

If you're using Coreldraw to create your designs, you'll need Graphtec's Cutting Master 2 installed on your PC.

Get it here: http://www.graphtecamerica.com/imaging_ ... W)v182.zip It's about 100mb download!

John

i was actually going to use adobe illustrator as im mainly mac at home, though i have bought a dell xps as a go-between from my office to the room with the cutter / a3 printers in as they dont like being networked.

Would it be better to use adobe illustrator on the macs, or should i use my windows 7 image on my mac thru corel?

just had a call from the electirician he is coming Friday woohoo

thanks Stitchup, i think its coming with the cd from graphtec anyway from what the ebay chap said on the phone, but ill download anyway just in case.

There is a Cutting Master 2 for Illustrator too.

Sounds as though you're very nearly there. Well done!

getting there slowly but surely hehe

I just need to order some vinyl and some shirts etc next, whats the recommended options there?

surely some of this questions can go out from welcome section?!
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