Papercuts

[erik ok]

Anyone care to weigh in with advice on guillotine style paper trimmers? I'm looking to get around a 24" model. maybe a bit bigger?

[Fools Gold]

3 phase power,
hydralic,
26.5"+
weigh a hell of a lot

expect to pay a few thousand dollars for a decent one.

Have fun moving it, don't cut your hands off.

Unless you print thousands of dollars worth of posters a year, you might just want to make friends with an offset shop, or better yet an old letterpress shop.

[erik ok]

i was thinking more along the line of one of these one armed bandits

[Fools Gold]

They work OK. I have a few 18" in my shop, use em to cut film. They can't really do more than 2 or 3 sheets at a time without binding.

Go find a friend at a small paper printing company. Pressmen like coffee, beer or pizza, and sometimes will trade for 10 minutes of their cutting time. I just show up at my local letterpress shop with a few large coffees, and the owner points to the cutter and says "if I don't have to get up, use it as long as you want"

[erik ok]

Really? Are paper cutters not that intriguing?

[Unitus]

i got a big 'ol guillotine cutter. there's really nothing special to say. yeah, probably max out at 3 sheets without fucking up the paper.

if you're looking to do A LOT of cutting, don't go the guillotine route.

[squeegeethree]

There was a thread about this a month or two ago erik. I guess we're a little worn out on the topic. Try doing a forum search.

[phoondaddy]

It's more of a Rwandan machete than a guillotine.

[JustinHelton]

you can find a lot of places in town that probably have a nice heavy duty paper cutter. I get my paper cut down at a local copy shop...the guys doest even charge me cause he can use the excess paper...really nice guy.