Intec SC6000 / Morgana ColorCut Digital Die Cutter

[SoggyWinter]

Great write up, sir.

I'm in the market for the SC6500 very soon and I've heard that the crease is very weak for packaging and also was told it needs to be laminated or else it cracks. My main use of the machine is for more short run die cut or kiss cut stickers.

Another one of my intended uses would be die cut business cards, postcards and for hangers. Problem is I usually print on 16pt and I know the tolerance is up to about a 14pt. Anyone have experience with just die cutting 16pt with the possibility of gloss or soft touch lamination?

Based on my experience diecutting thick sticker media with a Summa S2T, you'll go through blades like candy and constantly need to make cut pressure adjustments cutting cardstock.

 

[jwheeler]

The thickest I've experimented with for packaging was 14pt C1S that was laminated and it did fine on the cutting. We just did a run of 1,250 door hangers and every sheet came out spot on. It did spit out about 20 sheets un-cut because it had trouble reading the marks. Not sure why because they looked fine to us. Out paper did have a bit of curl so maybe that cause the issue.

One new downside we've noticed is the creasing rapidly wears out the felt strip that the blade cuts into. These door hangers were unique in that they were double wide with a crease down the middle to fold in half before they hang it. I put on a fresh felt strip before starting the door hangers because it had worn out from doing some creasing jobs before this one. The only spot that wore out was where the crease line was.

 

[Robohopar]

Understood. I wonder how it would do with 16pt cardstock. Mainly cutting, no creasing.

 

[Robohopar]

Hi guys,

Bumping this up in the case if anyone knows about the tolerances for this machine. My Rep is going off the spec sheet but another rep is saying they’ve sold this to others and they’re running up to 24pt on the machine as well without issues. I know if the manufacturer spec is 14pt they wont cover parts under warranty if you’re using out of spec paper so just want to check to see if anyone has had any experiences with this matching since the last post.

Thank you

 

[jwheeler]

Reps will always tell you about customers running beyond spec, but then they won’t support you when the machine has issues. Their techs will blame it on you running it out of spec. I don’t trust reps like that.

I think 24pt would really be pushing it simply because the blades are so tiny. They’re not like the larger blades on a flatbed cutter. Plus, I’m sure that would wear out the blades quite rapidly. My suggestion is to just test a bunch of 24pt on their demo unit and see how it does.

Something else to consider: Morgana just announced the launch of a new model which does better creasing, supports thicker stock, and allows you to use without being connected to a PC.

 

[Robohopar]

Thanks for the info! I did not know a new one coming out. I’ll check it out, thanks again.