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  Removing roller pinchers

  Posted by Michael Tremarco on 9 August 2007 at 15:26

  Yesterday the technician who trained us on our sp 540 told us that you remove the pinch rollers before cutting. He said it protects the heads. Can anyone explain what the danger is and is it really necessary. It just seems to defeat the object of printing/cutting in one go. The reason I’m asking is that as newbie I went and forgot to take the pinch rollers out last night on my last cut but the unit appeared to work just fine. I have not done any damage have I? It appears fine. so is it necessary and I was just lucky and it is something you do every time before you cut.

  Derek Heron replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Gavin MacMillan

  Member

  9 August 2007 at 15:40

  errr…. what rollers? I’m thinking you mean the ones at the edge that keep the very edge of the material down and not the ones that actually hold it in place? If so you only have to make sure you don’t have the long ones in when doing a sheet cut (as the blade and all the gubbins would crash into them) you don’t have to change anything before doing a contour cut, that would indeed defeat the purpose!

  NB I’ve never found any use for the longer ones (media clamps I think they’re called) but vary the number of pinch roller depending on what I’m doing.

  Wait a minute I may have clicked…. If you are doing a contour cut in one go you only want to have pinch rollers at the edge and not in the middle as they can mark the print as it goes back to get cut. Is this maybe what he meant? No risk to the head doing this though??

  I hope some of that was vaguely relavent!

  G

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  Michael Tremarco

  Member

  9 August 2007 at 15:50

  Thanks Gavin. Yes your right, my mistake. It was not a danger to heads. The problem would be marking the vinyl during a contour cut. Just a bit paranoid at the moment that I don’t break anything and he went through the training sesh so quick I couldn’t grasp all he throwing at me.
  Cheers 🙂

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  Mark Elvidge

  Member

  9 August 2007 at 16:09

  the other option is to specify a 1min dry time in the rip settings, this should be enough to let the ink dry before the cut.

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  Gavin MacMillan

  Member

  10 August 2007 at 06:57

  No problem Micheal, best being extra careful till you get used to everything!

  G

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  Derek Heron

  Member

  10 August 2007 at 07:33

  i use the long guides when printing banner material as it is reverse rolled and tends to curl up
  i have a post it note with sheet guides to stick over the buttons for sheet cut

  derek

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