The cutting torch for paper is the integral attribute of any printing house and practically any office. And the choice of these products in shops impresses. However to pick up the model suitable for itself is very difficult task. There are cutting torches roller, saber, guillotine are three main types. Unfortunately, not all buyers of cutting torches for paper are satisfied with the choice. And all because they look first of all at the price, without paying attention to more important selection criteria. To decide on the choice, at first learn what it is necessary to choose from.
Instruction
1. Roller cutting torches – the simplest and available at the price. The cutting surface – the ground metal disk moving over counterknife along the device basis on bar. In cheap models as counterknife the edge of the basis quite often acts. Roller cutting torches can cut paper of big formats and are famous for big accuracy. As you can see, such models are quite simple thanks to what they also are very reliable and easy-to-work. Their only shortcoming – low performance.
2. Saber cutting torches are more productive, than roller. In them as it is already clear from the name, the sharp knife - "sabre" is applied to the machine cut. One party it fastens to the cutting torch basis, and on another there is handle. Pressing it, you move knife down, and it adjoins to counterknife which role the edge of the basis can also play.
3. If for time on the roller cutting torch it is possible to cut on average no more than 10 sheets, saber can cope already with 50 sheets of paper. Unfortunately, saber cutting torches have more shortcomings, than at their roller "fellows": often lower sheets are cut off on curve as the knife pulls paper for itself; paper raspushatsya at the machine cut that leads to education at its edges of teeth.
4. To level these shortcomings, it is not necessary to save on the saber cutting torch - take care of that it has been equipped with the reliable clamping device and knife made of high-quality steel. By the way, mostly the cost of the saber cutting torch is determined by knife.
5. For guillotine cutting torches some on ignorance give saber. Undoubtedly, something they are similar, but differences between them is much bigger, than similarities. Guillotine models of cutting torches are the equipment for professionals. They are capable to cut shot glass of paper thickness in several dozen centimeters. Besides paper, guillotine cutting torches can cut also other materials, both similar in structure to paper, and very very different. And buy such machines usually in printing houses and large offices. Such equipment costs expensive, of course. Nevertheless, if you have decided to get such cutting torch for the printing house, buy still at least one roller – it nevertheless can execute such work for which his guillotine "relative" is not intended.
6. Cutting torches for paper are also classified by range of application: office, specialized, professional.
7. Office cutting torches are suitable for performance of the most part of standard operations. Therefore they are widely used at small and average offices and also houses (amateur photographers, for example). The majority roller and also some saber models belongs to such cutting torches. Small performance and the small price is characteristic of office class of cutting torches. You remember, however, that if the price too small, most likely, the knife is made of low-quality metal, and you should not buy such cutting torch.
8. Specialized cutting torches, apparently from the name, use for performance not of really standard works: for processing of big formats, other materials, except paper (cardboard, plastic, leather, rubber and other). Specialized cutting torches meet in design offices, photoworkshops, advertizing agencies.
9. And at last, professional cutting torches are devices which are intended mainly for printing houses. They can be not only guillotine as some think. Both the roller cutting torches, and saber by all means equipped with very qualitative knives providing the perfect machine cut can quite be professional. Such cutting torches are very reliable and have the largest performance. Well and the impressive price, of course, they differ too.