Full Version: Cheap Vinyl Cutters

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#17]
 6 Apr 2006
To: RALLYGUY (RALLYGUY1) [#16] 6 Apr 2006

Brian,

I have heard great reviews of the Graphtec plotters. Your comment is right in line with the others I have heard. I guess this explains why Engraving Concepts selected it as their brand of choice for plotters.

From: RALLYGUY (RALLYGUY1) [#18]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#17] 6 Apr 2006

Oops,

Guess the one we had for a month was a 30" thought it was a 36"...Nice machine. Affordable too. We just wanted something that would match up to our printer width.

I started my initial research here on this forum as well, and was directed to them.

So far it has handled everything that I have thrown at it...The registration on print/cut projects is really impressive.....I honestly didn't expect it to be as accurate as it is.

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#19]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#17] 6 Apr 2006

David,

I tried to follow your link to engraving concepts and got the following message:
 

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /graphtec_vinyl_systems.htm on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.engravingconcepts.com Port 80

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#19] 6 Apr 2006

Ken,

I checked the link again and it seemed to work fine on Internet Explorer 6. What browser are you using?

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#21]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#20] 6 Apr 2006

David,
Internet Explorer 6

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#22]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#21] 6 Apr 2006

Hmmmm? I'm not sure where to go from here. :S  It was a link to the Graphtec area of their site. It may have somethig to do with a security setting. I'm really grasping here.

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#23]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#22] 7 Apr 2006

I'm not sure either. :S  I just tried to go to the home page, not a sub-page, and it didn't work either. I'd hate to not have access to such a resourse. :'-(  I also don't like not understanding why it's not working. :-(  Maybe someone else will be able to translate the error message. :D 

From: RALLYGUY (RALLYGUY1) [#24]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#23] 6 Apr 2006

It works for me...

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#25]
 6 Apr 2006
To: RALLYGUY (RALLYGUY1) [#24] 6 Apr 2006

:-( :'-(  :-(  I'm the only one being locked out. :'-(  :O  :'-( 

From: John (ICTJOHN) [#26]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#23] 6 Apr 2006

It works for me on IE vers 6
:S 

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#27]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#25] 6 Apr 2006

Ken,

Mac w/ IE5 works. :-) 

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#28]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#27] 7 Apr 2006

I just tried with Norton Internet Security disabled. It worked. I'd guess their site is trying to snoop and learn a little about the computers trying to connect. If so, it's not worth it.

From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#29]
 6 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#28] 7 Apr 2006

Norton internet security will also block pages for simply having an image with words like "banner" or advertising related words in their name. It can be a little too protective at times. It does not mean that the site is trying to snoop on you.

From: sprinter [#30]
 6 Apr 2006
To: ALL

Graphtec is the upper end in vinyl cutters and well worth the price. A friend purchased the Master $495 cutter, after seeing it and comparing to my Graphtec he is not a happy camper. Circle and diaginal cuts are very poor and cutting letting under 1/2" is a waste of time and it is very slow. The software is very limited, basically the Flexisign demo package with a driver for the cutter.

Software for vinyl cutting is another story, Corel isn't the answer with out addons like cocut. ScanVec's Flexisign Pro is the better product if you plan on doing anything more than basic lettering, but's it's 3K+. Flexisign Pro has the best scanning to vector conversion that I have ever seen. The difference between it and Corel X3 trace is like night and day. I guess it goes back to you get what you pay for.

From: jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2) [#31]
 7 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#23] 7 Apr 2006

quote:
just tried to go to the home page, not a sub-page, and it didn't work either. I'd hate to not have access to such a resourse.


Ken,

I have no idea what I can do to solve the problem BUT I'm happy to point you directly to the Graphtec site at http://www.graphtecusa.com/indeximaging.php

Does that link/site work for you?

I'll check with the technical guys here to see if they have any ideas on why you're "locked out" of our site. I assure you it's not intentional! :-( 

From: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#32]
 7 Apr 2006
To: jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2) [#31] 7 Apr 2006

Jeanette,

Your's is the only site I've come across that doesn't work. It does work if I disable Norton Internet Secutity. (I do not have the parental controls loaded/running on this computer.) I'm currious if your tech person comes up with anything.

I'm not currently in the market for one, but with the discussion on low price quality cutters, I was curious how much one costs?

From: jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2) [#33]
 7 Apr 2006
To: Ken D. (KDEVORY) [#32] 7 Apr 2006

The range on the Graphtec systems is $1800 (for the economy model) up to $6000-ish.

I'll let you know if the guys come up with anything at the technical end.

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#34]
 7 Apr 2006
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#33] 7 Apr 2006

I went to the site with no problems.

IE 6, Norton Internet Security 2005.

From: James (TILER02) [#35]
 7 Apr 2006
To: jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2) [#31] 10 Apr 2006

Jeanette, You make me feel bad now, I just bought a FC7000-75 two weeks ago. I did not know you sold them. I would have given you the sale.

From: jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2) [#36]
 10 Apr 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#35] 10 Apr 2006

No problem. It's not one of our "main line" pieces of equipment -- we started carrying the line as a service to our customers who needed a "complete sign-making package".

Perhaps our new website will help us let folks know we carry these.

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