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Gerber P2C1600S Calibration
Morning all,
I have a Gerber P2C1600S and have been having problems with it being off by quite a bit when cutting lengths
I am using composer to send data to the cutter.
For example if I set up a panel in illustrator 1160 x 295mm, output to a version 3 EPS and then import into composer, composer will show the size correctly until I output the selected data, then it will show a material usage of 1163 x 295mm, and then cut a panel that is 1151 x 294mm.
I have tried calibrating the unit through the calibration menu, the machine will only let me calibrate X and even then the settings do not seem to stick as it will be slightly off again if I re-test it.
I have a job coming up shortly that will need to cut panels to exact sizes so this is no good at all! One of the panels will be over 2.3 metres long and it is on frosted vinyl which is not cheap if it cuts too short!
Any help or ideas appreciated.
Graham -
8 Replies
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Have you tried sending the panel straight to the plotter generated by composer rather than generated from illy?
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I have, a 1000 x 295mm panel came out as 993 x 294mm.
could the software be at fault at all?
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You got the proper plotter picked in the add printer drop down menus ?
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yes it certainly appears so.
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have you measured the cut panel.
the plot screen always says more material useage than actual size 😮
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OK well at least i know it’s not just on mine it does that then!
But yes the cut panel is smaller than it should be.
1000mm on the x axis will translate to 993mm on the cut panel. That’s quite a gap.
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Totally stumped Graham.
only thing left i can think of before looking at the user manual on the installation disk for guidance is try a pen in the plotter and do a plot onto paper and then measure that.It might narrow the problem down a bit.
Remember the paper plot will be slightly bigger due to the thickness of the pen stroke.
F
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Hmm, don’t think i have a pen floating around for it, not sure how this would help either?
If need be i will cut the panels on our XC-540 as it seems to be fairly accurate!
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