Guillotine paper trimmer: What to look after before buying?
Guillotine paper trimmer: What to look after before buying
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A guillotine paper trimmer (or cutter as some may refer) can certainly improve your efficiency when you are cutting paper and other materials in your own office. If you cutting or trimming paper daily, then you may not want to go with the cheapest rotary paper cutter machines. Guillotine paper trimmers opposite to rotary paper cutters can cut great chunks of paper or other kind of sheet materials in a relatively short time compared to big industrial cutters and the very small, cheap 'hobby' devices.
If you planning to buy a paper cutter to office use I would suggest to go with a guillotine paper trimmer.
Here are some aspects when choosing guillotine cutter:
A very important aspect is the paper size you want to cut. Regarding the cutting size, the blade, which is a very good quality metal blade need to be bigger so the blade and therefore the cutter price will raise.
You can't to evade this. If you need to cut for example A/0 paper which is 33.11 X 46.81 inch, you can't go with an A/4 paper cutter. (the most common cutting size is A/3 which is 11.693 X 16.535 in inches)
Another aspect is the actual speed of the paper cutter. If you need to finish your prints fast, you must choose a paper cutter which is quite good in speed. One of the pros of guillotine paper cutters is the speed of the work what they can produce. The guillotine paper cutters can cut large chunks of paper and thanks to that you do not need to put paper again and again in the machine.
Maybe the most important aspect is safety. You can't go with a guillotine paper cutter that lacks safety. Even if your focus on what you are doing you can make mistakes. Therefore safety is one or the most important aspect when choosing. Blade guard is absolutely necessary. It is the most vital safety element when it comes to paper cutting. Blade guard is that piece that don't let the user interfere with the blade directly. The second important safety device is tension spring. Tension spring don't let the blade fall down when the machine isn't in use.
So don't even think to buy a cheap guillotine cutter without these two vital parts. Saving some dollars doesn't worth loosing a some fingers!
Regarding the above you should choose a paper cutter which mostly meets your needs. Guillotine paper trimmers are very popular because they are somewhere between the office and the industrial use. If you choose the optimal cutter it will pay for itself, and in a long term it can save you or your company a lot of money.
A good tip: always cut a bit smaller then the actual chunk size is. This way you can make the cutting blade last longer - and the cutting blade is one of the most expensive part of the guillotine paper cutter.