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can anyone tell me why mutoh 1300cp runs off line please?
I have a large glass sliding door graphic to fit.The gray is frosted,the white is the cut out. i cut it into 4 strips(splitting it along branches so as not to have any visible joins). the doors are 2700m high x 3100 wide. so thats 2 strips per door. when i fitted it i found it had ran off & some of the branches didnt line up. the plotter i use (mutoh 1300cp) is need of a service and tends to run off after about 1 1/2 m :p. any suggestions how i could get round this
Thanks
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A service may help but there are things you can do. Make sure everything is spotlessly clean, especially the grip rollers. Also, you could try running the material through a couple of times to make sure it is running nice and flat and not snagging or folding slightly. I had a problem with material skew and found the vinyl was catching on a cable which made it buckle. Not familiar with your plotter, but tolerances aren’t fantastic on most friction fed ones anyway.
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All my equipment is Mutoh, I have found a brilliant engineer at Art Systems Nottingham really knows what they are doing. Even rings you a few days later to see if everything going OK.
John
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Might help.
The cutter may act up if you are rolling in and out 1,5 + meters of vinyl many many times.
If your cutter acts up at 1.5 m, tell you software that you want to TILE at say 1 meter. The software will break the job up so that it nevers runs out more then 1 meter of vinyl at a time. Most programs can tile seamlessly so you cant tell that a 2 meter job was broken up into 2 1meter jobs.
Or go nuts and tile at say 10 cm. The cutter will cut your 2 meter job in 10 cm lengths (and you shouldnt be able to tell by looking at the cut lines.)Also, most software , and some cutters internally, can be set to SORT the vectors so the the LEFT most objects will allways cut first.
By default most software cuts in database order so the knife may be jumping all over the place depending on the designwork.Anything to reduce the rolling in and out of vinyl should help.
frank at cadlink
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