Cutters and Software. Which?

[arko]

Sorry, its the UK720... apparently an upgraded version.

[WorthDoingRight]

Sorry, its the UK720... apparently an upgraded version.

Well not sure what has been upgraded. It might just be the first two letters lol. I think there is a lot of rebadging going on of the same models of chinese cutters to make one suppliers seem superior to another - whether there is infact any difference is hard to tell as the instructions are often as good as non-existant. When I bought my first Liyu TC631E cutter the instructions were so bad I couldnt even work out how to put the stand together let alone put the cutter on the stand!! Luckily I did not need the rubbish instructions to actual attach the machine to the PC or I might have still been trying now!

[arko]

Im starting to figure it out.... The cutting rail is 720mm wide but the blade starts at 80mm as the blade carrier is this wide, it can cut then right up to 690mm on the rail before the carrier stops. I can then feed my material through anywhere from just under 80mm to minimise waste. If I say at about 70mm then I know that I will have a 10mm border as an offset in my signgo programme.... The rest I havent worked out yet apart from the mirror image setting is such a small button it is real hard to find. Will update soon! hahaha!

[soulclaimed]

I searched saga on ebay and couldnt find anything?

[Horse Pop]

Just bumping this because I have a similar question.

My wife is after a cutter / plotter which can do paper / vinyl. Other materials is not such a big deal. She wants to do cards, t-shirts, stickers etc.

She needs something compatible with CorelDraw.

It seems like my options at our budget are the Cameo and Cutwizard or a variety of Chinese plotters.

What I am wondering is:
What the limitations of the Cameo are. I gather it will only do certain materials for example.
How good/bad is cutwizard for working with stuff from Corel?

How bad are the Chinese plotters? Preliminary research has led me here among other places and I see a lot of complaining about some of them.
Sounds like the software can be a bit hit and miss and there can be build quality issues.
What is the least painful plotter/software option if we go for Chinese?

What would you guys suggest?

Thanks.

[Horse Pop]

Cheers, having a look.

[Justin]

I'd like to keep this thread going a little My MH721 is playing up so I'm thinking about either going back to a Roland or buying a Graphtec. I have a Cameo which is fine for smaller work.

I'd like to cut straight from CorelDraw as I used to on my old Roland CX24 (Oh why did I sell that...twice!) but maybe buying a better cutter will allow this option without having to mess about trying to find drivers etc.

[Dave271069]

Anyone have any info on this Chinese cutter