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Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 24 Aug 2018, 18:38
by milspectees
Graphtec blades are not £100 they are under £15 and they last forever. I have both a CE6000-60 and a CE5000. They get used every day and I have only changed blades once in the CE 5000 in 6 years and never in the CE 6000
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 08 Jul 2021, 23:27
by dazzul
Four years on, running 2 CE6000's (great machines) and finally ordered a BN20 yesterday.
Time flies as they say
Now going to read all the old threads here again
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 09 Jul 2021, 10:18
by pw66
Old post but still a great cutter - I assume the CE7000 is just as good. The only problem I have had with mine is the optical eye is hit and miss.
The media basket is obscenely expensive at £400, so I made my own for £25 from 10 ft of banner vinyl, 4 broom handles and a 1 metre aluminium ruler.
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Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 15 Sep 2021, 18:12
by Rodp
Wish I hadn't sold my ce6000-60 when I downsized, thought I wouldn't have room for it. Looking for another one now, but a lightly used one this time and not new as semi retired now.
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 15 Sep 2021, 21:03
by Justin
Possibility mine may come up for sale soon, I'll let you know if it does.
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 15 Sep 2021, 22:07
by Rodp
Justin;149305 wrote:Possibility mine may come up for sale soon, I'll let you know if it does.
Let me know then may still be looking.
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 16 Sep 2021, 08:12
by StellaD
pw66;148668 wrote: The only problem I have had with mine is the optical eye is hit and miss.
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Only just seen this but for info - We have the FC7600 Mk 2 which originally had a hit and miss optical eye which would drive anyone mad. A Graphtec engineer travelled to us two days in a row, swapped out every part he could think of and eventually gave it up as a bad job and agreed to replace the whole machine. He phoned his office so they could make arrangements and the engineer on the other end idly made a "stupid" suggestion (!). It involved a connector lead hidden inside the control panel which turned out to be 99.9% pushed in but the odd 0.1% was causing the unpredictable errors even though it didn't show up in the diagnostics.
A few seconds later we had a brilliant cutter we would not be without.
Re: Graphtec CE6000 to Print & Cut
Posted: 16 Sep 2021, 09:51
by pw66
StellaD;149314 wrote:pw66;148668 wrote: The only problem I have had with mine is the optical eye is hit and miss.
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Only just seen this but for info - We have the FC7600 Mk 2 which originally had a hit and miss optical eye which would drive anyone mad. A Graphtec engineer travelled to us two days in a row, swapped out every part he could think of and eventually gave it up as a bad job and agreed to replace the whole machine. He phoned his office so they could make arrangements and the engineer on the other end idly made a "stupid" suggestion (!). It involved a connector lead hidden inside the control panel which turned out to be 99.9% pushed in but the odd 0.1% was causing the unpredictable errors even though it didn't show up in the diagnostics.
A few seconds later we had a brilliant cutter we would not be without.
My optical eye still has a bit of a squint. It will only pick up registration marks after about 20 attempts, which makes it all but unusable. The problem I had is that I didn't use the optical eye until after the guarantee ran out, so getting an engineer wasn't an option.
I hnow have a print and cut solvent printer, so it is no longer an issue. The CE is kept just for vinyl cutting.
As a vinyl cutter I would recommend the CE6000 to anyone. Well made and robust.