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The Intimus GC208
Business Card Slitter is designed for creating small runs of high
quality full bleed business cards without the need to outsource. Any
organization with a color copier and a frequent need to order business
cards will find that the GC208 pays for itself quite nicely.The GC208 comes with a CD on which you
will find templates to help with the layout of your business cards in
four popular applications: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Quark
and Illustrator.

Overview:

• The Intimus GC208
  Business Card Slitter is designed for creating small runs of high
  quality full bleed business cards without the need to outsource. Any
  organization with a color copier and a frequent need to order business
  cards will find that the GC208 pays for itself quite nicely.
• It
  is ideal for printers, copy shops, in-plant print shops and human
  resource departments looking to produce their own high quality, full
  bleed business cards.
• The GC208 comes with a CD on which you
  will find templates to help with the layout of your business cards in
  four popular applications: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Quark
  and Illustrator.

Strengths / Features:

• Although
  there are a number of different business card slitters available on the
  market, the GC-208 is one of the only gutter cut business card slitters
  that is commercially available. It is designed to produce high quality
  full bleed business cards out of letter sized sheets printed on your
  color laser printer or photocopier. By overprinting the template, it is
  possible to have your graphics run to the very edge of for full bleed
  business cards.
• The GC208 business card slitter is capable of
  completing up to 300 finished business cards per minute. This is fast
  enough for commercial applications where speed and productivity are
  essential.
• This machine has a feeder that is capable of
  handling a stack of sheets up to 5/8″ thick. You can load the sheets
  into the feeder, place the weights on top of the stock and let the
  machine do its work.
• The GC208 is a floor standing unit that
  comes mounted on castors. The business card slitting unit is mounted on
  a special waste bin for no-mess production. Plus, the whole unit is
  mounted on wheels to allow you to push the unit out of the way when it
  is not in use.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The
  GC208 business card slitter requires a two step operation for cutting
  business cards. First, you feed the letter sized sheets into the lower
  station of the machine and it cuts them into two 3.5″ strips and cuts
  the waste off the sides. Then you feed the cut strips sideways through
  the upper station to separate the four, full bleed imprinted cards.
  It’s best to do all of your length-wise cuts, and then all of your
  side-ways cuts. Although the machine is fast (300 cards per minute)
  cutting business cards is still a hands on process.
• Because
  full bleed imprinting requires an overprint on all four sides of the
  card, the GC208 is limited to producing only 8 cards per 8 ½” x 11″
  sheet.
• The cutting heads are not adjustable, the GC208 cuts only standard size business cards and accepts only 8 ½” x 11″ stock.

Recommendation:

• The
  GC-208 is an excellent cost effective business card slitter for
  producing high quality full bleed business cards from letter sized
  sheets of paper.
• With speeds of up to 300 cards per minute
  the GC208 is ideal for print shops, binderies, copy shops and for
  organizations who want to produce their own high quality business cards
  in minutes rather than waiting days or weeks from outsourcing.
• The productivity offered by this unit can help to justify its cost in no time at all.
• However ,
  the GC208 is only designed for cutting business cards that are printed
  8 up on the page. Users who want to cut cards that are printed 10 up or
  12 up on a sheet will need to consider a different machine.

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