Business card finishing?

[PantherMac]

Whats everyone using to finish their business cards (assuming you print them)? Looking at slitters and round-cornering machines, etc... Hoping someone w/ some experience w/ some good machines can help save me some research!
Thanks.

- Mac

[John1234]

Never been a fan of slitters, leaves a rough edge on the cards. We cut ours down on the knife. As far as round corners, we are still old fashion, die cut on the kluge.

Hope this helps

john

[jem0701]

Recently received an Intimus slitter via our genius president. First of all the curl from our Ilumina is insane, which makes the sheets not want to feed properly on the first pass. In the manual the remedy is to place a book on the sheets over night. Second pass the sheets go in and butt up against a .25" piece of metal in the center. When it pulls them in they don't go in straight and they all get cut crooked. I've seen the scraps come out and the cards in the trash bin. I've seen the cards come up through the top.

Now I just send them back to the real cutter and be done with it.

Ditto the dies on the Kluge.

[born2print]

I don't know all the details, but our small press division has a BC slitter that has been working "very well" for a couple of years... I did hear that it was around 16K US$ though... wow.

[ChilBear]

Been out of the thermo business for years but look up Sunraise. We had a Gibson slitter that was $13k but built and solid. It was acquired by Sunraise and parts are easily available.

Another very solid supplier is Therm-O-type
Thermography and Business Card Slitting Equipment Manufacturer - Therm-O-Type Corporation
great people and solid machinery. I almost bought a machine from them but ditched the whole process. They make and sell their own stuff - very rare supplier.