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Custom cut feature on Versaworks
Morning All,
I’ve been suing the custom cut feature on versaworks for a while now to break large batches of stickers into small sheets for accurate cutting.
After laminating; the machine has detected the crops and successfully cut the first sheet – it sheet cuts this off and drops it to the floor.
When it goes to detect the marks for the second sheet it dodders about and then shows a fault – I’ve then got to line each successive sheet up manually and cut.
I’m guessing theres a particular page space measurement to solve this but has anyone come across this before??
Andy
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5 Replies
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Roland to the rescue…..
Kai from tech supported reckons the following is the solution;
100mm page space set in versaworks
Turn off sheet cut
Use take up rollerAndy
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thanks andy i will try and remember when i try it, but didn’t think you could use the rollup when cutting ?
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I always do mine in 1m sheets separately loaded.. My versacamm and me don;’t see eye to eye when it comes to sending the media through the machine straight…. biatch!
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The 100mm spacing didnt work, tried it today. The machine tried to find them but stopped about 20mm short, I’ve got some other jobs printing at the moment with a 60mm page space, I reckon this will be ok.
The take up system; I wouldnt do it with the standard "chinese style" ones, I had one but added a bigger motor and an optical sensor so that it only winds up when the vinyl is 3" from the floor. The motor and mandrels are mounted on the higher steel bar (the one directly under the heater rather than near the floor) so I get a good 500mm of free material thats not under tension – I break my cut jobs into 1320mm x 450mm runs then its cutting on the loose stuff, the next sheet comes out and the completed one is wound on.
The bigger motor means I can wind up a good 35m (havent tried more yet!) and it doesnt struggle to pull! I found the standard wimpy motor would give up after about 15m!
I’ll let you know if 60mm is better for auto sensing.
Andy
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Cracked it!!!
When printing set the page space to 60mm and when ready to cut set it to 80mm.
Works a treat, did 5 sets of "custom cut" jobs without having to base point between each sheet
Andy
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