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why is my plotter shooting through metres of vinyl?
Hi everyone
This is probably a silly question….We use summa D120SE with opus plotter that came with Winplot, Whilst we use Corel X3 to do our artwork.
My question is, when we load material and send our artwork into winplot, the cutter will start up and suddenly decide to shoot out meters of material to check "parameters" we find this extremely annoying as it shoots out meters of the material even though our decal could only us 500mm of the material.
Due to our cutters setting it shoots out the material at such a speed that it ends up creasing our vinyl.
I am certain that this is from the Winplot software, however I can not figure out how to stop this happening, as at the moment I cannot trust the machine not to damage material.
As people who use Winplot know, there is a setting in that software that will let the software workout the orientation whilst saving as much material as possible, I have tried switching this option off, and it still does this. We have even upgraded the Winplot version without luck.
Would appreciate anyone help on this, as it is driving me up the wall, trying to workout how to stop it checking the "parameters"
Look forward to valuable advise.
All the best, and kind regards
Silvio
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4 Replies
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Ah, annoying isn’t it!!
It seems to be a great feature Summa built in – to spit out metres of vinyl to check it has enough to do a strip of 10mm text…
If you just was to slow down the feed rates in the parameter checks do it through the LCD / touch panel on the plotter – these settings have nothing to do with the settings sent from the driver (OK, I’m running signlab).
I’m gonna have a play to see if I can reduce the amount of vinyl it allocates to spew out. Been over two years though…so I’m kinda used to it now.
Dave
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Ha! Found it!!
Woo hoo!
Hit the MENU button
then select SYSTEM SETUP
then AUTOLOAD
and turn it OFFHit ENTER and job done!!
Dave
ps. the only downside is – the system no longer checks to see if it’s got enough material to do a job.
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the way i do it, is….
when you’re in winplot and have just loaded a new roll, let it do its thing, then click the menu which shows ‘new roll’, ‘send to cutter’ etc, click ‘new roll’, then just type in a length, i usually just put 14" (or less for smaller bits), then click send to cutter, just click ok when it says peramiters have changed. it then starts at the beginning and then checks for the additional length,
tis annoying hey ! glad it’s not me ! nowt worse than putting in a whole roll for a tiny decal, and have it spit out 3-5mtrs and then cut it ! madness !’
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Hi David and Hugh,
Thanks for the advise, I will give it a go, it is annoying when it does this, as I find I can not turn my back on the cutter in the event it shoots out the material and jambs up….happened to me loads of times.
Many Thanks.
Regards
Silvio
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