Laserpoint 3 and die cut stickers

[jz788 0]

New to the forum here. Have a family print shop that is mainly digital press printing. We have always sent our wide format and die cut stickers out for clients

We are now looking into a wide format printer to do those things in house now.

With the LP3, can you technically create die cut stickers and pop them out the sheet if you put the printed sheet on a cutting mat when you load it into the LP3 for contour cutting?

I know a graphtec can do this but not quite ready to make a large investment in one.

Any thoughts or advice for this newb would be appreciated

[darcshadow 1,626]

Technically no, vinyl cutters can not do die cut. Die cut involves large heavy equipment that stamps out the cut, kind of like a cookie cutter, the cookie cutter is the die.

Can an LP3 contour cut printed decals? Yes. Can it perforate cut, sort of. In order to accomplish this you need to cut completely through the backing sheet of the vinyl, in order to do that on most vinyl cutters you need a cutting mat that the vinyl can stick to during the cutting procedure. This is how hobbyist cutters such at the Cricut work. The actual perforation cutting would be controlled by the software you are using.

[MZ SKEETER 4,708]

You may want to consider a used Graphtec FC8000 or 8600. They both can perf cut. Sometimes they can be found for under the price of a new Graphtec CE unit.  I picked up a FC8000-75  a couple years back for $1,000 free ship.  Took me less than 15 minutes to fix it.  They had the cross cutter jammed on it.