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I am very new to this. I finally got my UScutter laserpoint. After playing with it for a full day, I am still not able to cut a design. I have most of the bugs worked out, but now when I try to cut my design the vinyl feeds through ok for the prefeed, yet when it trys cutting it starts to slowly off track then it twists. My design is just text but it is 8 feet long could this be the problem? Or is it I am not feeding the vinyl in right? Is it suppose to be on the right side or center? I have 24" cutter and am using 15" vinyl
Pat
Sounds like the blade is sticking out too far from the blade holder. Retract the blade more and add more pressure on the cutter itself. I recommend a setting of 120-150 for the Press (pressure), and that the blade BARELY sticks out of the blade holder.
Thanks Ken. I will try that in the morning when I get in the shop. One more question for you though there seems to be a little what looks like a computer ribbon sticking out from where the blade is. It seems to be attached on both ends is this normal?
Pat
Hi Pat,
The 8 feet length is definitely the problem. I use a CAMM-1, and that would run off with anything over 5 or 6 feet in length. try breaking your design into 2 and cut shorter lengths. I would also try cutting small projects to learn the machine's capabilities.
8 ft should not be a problem for a cutter!
I run a Mimaki cutter in my sign business..........it will run 100 ft dead true.
Start looking at the simple things first......are you using all the pinch rollers? ( the wheels that hold the vinyl), are they set above the grit rollers? .
Make sure that you are loading the vinyl straight, if it is on a roll and your cutter has a vinyl roll holder it is easier........you will never be able to set up for a long run by eye.
It is strange that it feeds through straight when it is not cutting.........as the others have said make sure that the blade is adjusted correctly ( and free to rotate in its holder)and that the pressure is just heavy enough to cut the vinyl.
I would think 8 feet should be no problem, but wow a 100 ft, now that is impressive. .... JB
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The cutter I use is a 1 metre wide Mimaki.....cost over £4000 4 years a go but has never given any problems despite heavy daily use.......tracks perfectly.
Any of the friction feed cutter available should have minimal drift for long cuts even 8ft or longer. I have seen pictures customers have posted with jobs they have done without tiling on runs of 10-20ft.
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