Frequently asked questions

Fotoba manufactures 50cm 1.6, 1.7m and 3.2m wide cutters to cover all your finishing needs

The Fotoba is on wheels and can be relocated and re-levelled very easily.

The Fotoba can cut at a top linear speed up to 34m/minute. Including an horizontal cut every 1.8 m., a 100m roll can be finished in 6 minutes.

The Fotoba can have up to 16 single or double (32 cuts) vertical cutting units across the roll, enabling simultaneous vertical finishing of 15 borderless copies.

The Fotoba blades are self sharpening.

The Fotoba takes much less space than an XY Flatbed Cutter.

Depending on the number of prints across the media width the Fotoba can be from 3 times to 10 times faster than and XY Flatbed Cutter. In addition it does not requires continuous maintenance for blades and carpet replacement.

No, Fotoba cutters are cross cut only for flexible media up to 1mm thick.

Let your XY Flatbed Cutter do what it does best, shapes and contours.
Don’t waste your expensive Flatbed Cutter investment for square cutting and bottleneck your production.

Fotoba cutters cost less to run than two employees, produces perfectly square prints, works flawlessly reduces mistakes and injures to your personnel for razor blades handling.

The Fotoba can be operated just by one person.

The Fotoba can cut almost any flexible media up to 1mm in thickness including textile soft signage.

On average about  75% or more of most print jobs are square cut!