Digital BW, The Print

I am department chair of a large (450 student) college photography program. 

We used to buy cheap rotary trimmers. With student use, they'd last 3 to 4 months (rule of 
thumb: any piece of equipment that lasts more than a year under "student use" will last 
the lifetime of any single photographer). 

Then, we bought a couple Rotatrim trimmers. They cost about 5 or 6 times what the 
inexpensive trimmers cost. That was about 10 years ago and they are still cutting sharp, 
straight, perfect edges.

Quality costs, but quality lasts. 

As an aside, the College's insurance company made us get rid of all our guillotine cutters. 
I'm glad, because they were terrible accidents waiting to happen (we had really big ones).

-Jeff

Jeff Curto
Professor/Coordinator, Photography
College of DuPage
Jeff Curto
http://www.jeffcurto.com 
http://www.cameraposition.com
http://www.cod.edu/photo/curto/1105/handouts.htm 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sagaface" <sagaface@...> wrote:
>
> Yikes! You guys weren't kidding about the price. But I'm using a cheap, flimsy thing 
right 
> now I picked up at a stationary store in town and it's terrible. You get what you pay for, I 
> guess. Er, sometimes.
>