Bottlehead Forum: Re: Last Paramour Picture

I have a Roland Stika SX-12 Vinyl Cutter. It cuts adhesive back vinyl from 12" vinyl stock. Basically you just open a graphic or do some lettering in a program like Corel Draw or Adobe Acrobat and hit print. The cutter cuts instead of prints.

It's actually fairly affordable at about $550 or so. It comes with some software called Dr.Stika but I've found I don't use it very much. It's kind of a featureless, starter program that makes you want to buy the extremely expensive Sign Mate Stika software.

Corel Draw 10 or 11 costs several hundred bucks but I'd actually recommend getting one of the Corel Draws from 4 to 8 as they're very affordable and quite functional. I paid over $500 for Corel Draw 10.

I got my Roland cutter from www.ssky.com They also have an SX-8 that is even cheaper.

I also have access to a Roland PC-60 24" vinyl cutter at work. We use it for applying aircraft markings. So many people began bugging me to cut personal stencils at work that I just bought my own Stika machine. Now I'm cutting stencils on the side and picking up enough cash to keep me in capacitors and designer resistors.

There's probably 100 or more people in whatever town you're living in just like me. Last time I went to the States there were five or six guys at the local flea market set up cutting decals and making custom license plates. Figure out what decals or markings you want and slip one of those guys a $20 bill and you're in business.

John

http://www.ssky.com (Open in New Window)

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