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where iam i going wrong please help
ive got a roland cx24 plotter connected ver parrall port to my laptop all drivers in coral draw 12 using the problem is when iam pressing print the vinyl goes backwards in the plotter back onto the roll i dont know if its the page sizing or any think please can some one advise on this ive read all the files and pdf write ups but still finding it a great problem cutting with coral and the cx24 any one can give a talk through on this please thanx darren like hair line wot it is and page sizes ,, weather i need to stick the image in the bottom left corner or the top of the page all these seem to be alittle cloudy at the mo ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Our old roland used to have an optical "eye" that would sense where the leading edge of the vinyl is, if this became clogged with bits of vinyl it would cause the same problem that you are having. If there is one try cleaning it out (will be on the front platten)
Mart. -
dont know if it has and optical eye do you know how to set the cx24 up to run with coral draw please like how to do the 0.1 hairline ect page sizes to see if ihave them all correct also where you stick the image bottom left corner or at the top on the page all these are unclear to me at the momment really need to try and get the machine working in coral 12 thxs again darren
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Hi Darren,
Sorry to have cut you off, from what youve told me the cx24 seems to be set up correctly through Coreldraw and i really do think that setting the contours to hairline is probably the way to go, setting to cutcontour is for the versacamm . Why it is not working for you I dont know especially as it is working through Signlab. As I said I really dont have any experience with this model perhaps others could help you
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ok martin thxs for trying seems weird just need to try and some how try the hair line part before we got cut off on the phone thxs darren
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Try ajusting your page size to the size of the job you would like to output (1mm larger), and then output "center of page" I do this when printing to a Roland VersaCamm from Corel. Or better still, get some dedicated software to run your cutter. I normally create my "cut files" on coral, then export to the cutting program, and output without any changes. Anything will work. Sign Script, Cas Mate etc. You dont have to learn the new software – just find the cut / plot command – and in most cases quality is better. (especially when cutting very small fonts)
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Just wondering if it’s as simple as… have you pressed the origin button once you’ve loaded your vinyl?
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