Looking to purchase plotter, recommendations?

[TintNTronics 1]

Hi, been tinting for about 10years now part time along side my normal full time job. Business has been picking up year after year and looking to get a plotter now. Looking to add PPF to services as well. In need of recommendations of purchasing a plotter. New? Used? Brands you like and have good luck with? Anything to help. Thanks in advance.

[alberts316 64]

I would spend the extra on a graphtec.  They just seem to be more accurate with feeding and the pinch rollers.  GCC is a great starter.  I would try to get a 60" but 40" will do also

[Erockmx133 3]

I purchased the vinyl express q42 which is a copy of the graphtec. Definitely a learning curve.  I later purchased a gcc Jaguar and I love this plotter compared to the q42/graphtec.

the Jaguar was way easier to use and way easier to fine tune in my opinion. 

[TintNTronics 1]

Sounds good, I’ll check those out. Thanks for the recommendations.

[Areba21 1]

On 1/4/2021 at 7:50 PM, TintNTronics said:

Hi, been tinting for about 10years now part time along side my normal full time job. Business has been picking up year after year and looking to get a plotter now. Looking to add PPF to services as well. In need of recommendations of purchasing a plotter. New? Used? Brands you like and have good luck with? Anything to help. Thanks in advance.

I have a us cutter one and it's not bad as a starter cutter, although it's really reliable, I also use vinyl cutter software for mac it's a nice hobby cutter, you can do fine detail with it, but if I had a design shop, I would only do it once and get a Graphtec. I've got one of those, too, and how reliable and consistent it is is nuts. You're going to be at around $1800 for the 24" I have, but you can do almost any job. They also make a 15" for 1100-1200ish, I went with the 24" because if necessary I would have the ability to do bigger jobs and wouldn't have to get another one later."

Edited January 23 by Areba21