Basic signlab problem, Help needed?

[Brian Hays]

How does it look on the preview in Signlab? maybe your cutter is set to mirror rather than it being the software.

[Peter Greener]

in signlab it looks as it should when you write text IE from right to left etc

The plotter is a Roland camm 1 960

[Peter Greener]

If i type TEST fr example it looks correct

when it cuts it says TSET and its also upside down???

In signlab it says its going to cut TEST

[Brian Hays]

There is an option that mirrors stuff on the cutter, can’t recall exactly as I don’t have much experience with Roland’s these days. Do you have the book for it. Should be a very simple fix if you know what buttons to press (hopefully!)

[Brian Hays]

Manual here makes no mention of it…

http://www.signcutpro.com/files/man/rol … 60+910.pdf

What version of Signlab do you have?

[Peter Greener]

Yes ive been through the roland manual twice and tried every setting in the book without any joy

Will try again with a fresh set of eyes tommorow

Thankyou for your help aswell as its appreciated

Pete

[Peter Dee]

Select CUT/plotting defaults, then make sure that "Mirror" is NOT selected.

[Frank Droog]

Like Peter says, make sure Mirror is UnChecked in Cut/ Plotting Defaults.
Also make sure Axis Swaap is unchecked in Cut/Plotting Deafaults

Also make sure Rotate is set to 90 on the cutter itself.
With rotate ste to 0, the cutter cuts along the width of the vinyl, not the length

[Brian Hays]

If mirror is checked in the setup it will be reversed in the preview? which it isn’t.

[Peter Normington]

I had a similar problem with older versions of signlab.
unistall and then reinstall the plotter,

Peter

[Peter Greener]

Hi and thanks to everyone for the help, I checked everything and after losing lots of hair and screaming like a girl at the pc and plotter I sussed out the problem!

The plotter was set-up correct, it seems that in signlab that one of the little origin settings was wrong so it caused a conflict which made everything look correct on the software but told the cutter to turn the image round and also mirror it

Neither mirror or transform etc were ticked in signlab.

A real pain but the good news is that its now back working as it did originally

Its a shame that for some reason when I asked if anyone had a user guide / manual etc for signlab 5 the forum admins deleted it as I could really do with the manual as mine was lost??

Pete

[Peter Normington]

peter the manuals for signlab, are not that comprehensive, everything covered is actually in the signlab help files. pity though I chucked out my siglab 5 manuals only the day before you asked for them!

Peter