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Curled Edges cutting thin vinyl – Mimaki CG60SR
Hi,
I have recently begun cutting some quite thin vinyl, and the tool seems to cut ok for the most part – but on some corners it is uneven and even angular.
I have looked through the forums and a few people have had the same issues – and I have tried to follow their advice (adjust ADJ-OFFSET) and pressure etc, but it seems to not have worked as well as I need it to be.
I have set the ADJ-OFFSET from 0 – 7 and it seems to not have made a difference.
I have also played around with the Tool OFFSET in the main tool menu – which is set to the setting as described on the cutting tool box – .50.
I have included a copy of the vinyl after being scanned in with various settings: the best seems to be the ADJ – OFFSET being 7 and the tool setting at .50
I have set the tool 1 setting to:
speed 15 and the cut pressure in the main menu to 60g and the tool offset to .50Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am using Finecut version 7.6 on illustrator CS4.
Examples below – areas of particular concern highlighted in red.
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3 Replies
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Nils,
Right enough you should adjust up and down a bit, if necessary, to get a perfect cut, but the offset should be 0.3. Make sure that you have a 0.3 blade fitted though.
Also, they call it a quality setting, but really all it does is to adjust the blade acceleration. Set it to the maximum.
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Also make sure you are using a sharp blade. had this problem a while back and just used a fresh blade to cut cast, the old blade still cuts other materials just fine.
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Thanks for your comments on this topic, it seems that I have sorted the issue now.
It was a combination of a poorly designed vector graphic (upon closer magnification you could see lines that were not perfect) and the amount of blade you could see.
It amazes me just how much difference fractions of a millimeter can make!
Thanks again for your help guys!
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