Hi Guys
This is my first post on this site so I have to say Hi to all from Queensland Australia.
I have been a self employed Sign Maker for many years now. When I started my business, I purchased a GCC Mercury 25 watt with all the options. I loved this machine but at the time when the word laser was mentioned to prospective customers, the word RADIATION would pop up and they would run a mile. Other than that, they could not see my vision of how unique a product I could make them with my machine to give something that no one else stocked. I am mainly referring to the Scrapbook market but not only. Needless to say, I was getting no work for my laser apart from a few acrylic jobs. I was designing bits and pieces as samples but at the end of the day, I had a $32000 shop decoration. So I sold it on for a massive loss of coarse and then all those who ran scared said, "Hey Phill, about that laser. I would like.....". This was when lasered scapbook parts started to flood through the scapbook world. Now with a new marketing vision, I want to purchase a nother laser and have been searching the Chinese market via the internet. I like the Bodor and Golden Laser machines for their specs. I realise that most of these machines use generic hardware so they should be the same ish but some advertise better specs than other. I want a good machine but I want it cheap also.
I will need
80-100 watt
600x900 mm or 1200x900 mm cutting area
electric rise and fall with vector honeycomb table
and will most likely choose a host of other little options like auto focus, red dot, rotary unit, etc.
Who can recommend a particular company to deal with and also any companies not to deal with. I started to like York laser and SignTech products, but then I started hearing bad things about service once paid and poor reliability.
I would be greatfull to hear of anyones experiences with these companies and thank you all in advance.
Phill Barnes
CCE