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x axis error help.
Hi all, I have recently acquired a summacut d60 and am using illustrator 8. I am a red raw newbie and am doing very well managing to get most of my work to the cutting stage. Unfortunately I am having a problem on an irregular basis and it is doing my head in. Can not sort it out. Some files I try to cut are giving an x axis error on the cutter. I don’t think my files are too big for the cutting area. Some times when I size something up it also causes the problem. I can not take any work as I am never sure when this problem is going to crop up. Any help greatly appreciated.
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I’m a relative newbie myself so cannot answer your question. I know I sometimes get the X axis error on my Graphtec, and it’s something to do positioning ?? I think I get it if my vinyl isn’t straight or runs off the pinch rollers.
But a tip that might help, use the plotter pen and paper roll to check a job before you cut, can save you a few quid if you’re half way through a length of vinyl before the error appears.
Someone also told me to use cheap backing paper wallpaper stuff, but I got a roll of proper plotter paper quite cheap from my stationers, as I was a bit unsure about the wallpaper idea!?
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Thanks for input Tim much appreciated. i think you may be right about the positioning. i am going to go at it for another couple of hours to-morrow using the old trial and error method i might stumble across the solution.
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hi
most x axes errors come from the vinyl roll snaging and overloading the motors or a fault like binding within the machine.
chris
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Chris your a legend……….
just the golden nugget piece of information i was looking for. I was puting the vinyl rolls on the alignment rollers too tight. I loosened them up and was able to cut without a problem.may the road rise with ya…..
thanks
Sammy
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