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Graphtec, No media alert.
Hi there,
I recently bought a graphtec ce-5000 60 and every so often while cutting vinyl it pauses saying ‘no media’ it’s not a problem but more annoying as I have to keep pressing enter fot it to continue. Any ideas what’s causing this? The machine is immaculate, hardly used and I use the original graphtec stand which is unmarked. Any help would be much appreciated.
Ewan
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10 Replies
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try putting a bit of vinyl over the media sensors. if the sensors are working it should think there is media always there regardless.
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hi ewan,i have the same plotter the only time this happens is when i have not unrolled enough material before i start to cut as the cutter is unable to pull from the roll.
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Thanks for the replies. I was thinking it maybe the machine trying to unroll the vinyl as I stupidly adjusted the two stopper kinda things on the bars that you sit the vinyl on as I thought they were in the wrong place. I may now have them too close together. Can this affect the machines tracking?
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quote Ewan Evans:Thanks for the replies. I was thinking it maybe the machine trying to unroll the vinyl as I stupidly adjusted the two stopper kinda things on the bars that you sit the vinyl on as I thought they were in the wrong place. I may now have them too close together. Can this affect the machines tracking?
yes it can it needs free play( no ristrance) to move freely so it can track
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would the media not pulling not create a media jam at high speed, type warning notice as opposed to the pre-feed not working and saying no media?
i guess the positioning of your bars will be determined on the roll size ewan.
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We have a 7000 that often has the same problem. It’s usually caused by the cutter being too close to the wall behind it. When the cutter pulls through vinyl, often quite slowly when prefeeding, it then fires it back to the rear at full speed ready to cut, but if there isn’t room behind for the vinyl to drop nicely into the basket it will lift a little off the deck causing the rear detector to think there is no vinyl. Usually, pulling the cutter away from the wall and opening the rear basket more will prevent this happening. Cold, stiff vinyl makes the problem worse. While you can slow down the cutting feed quite easily, slowing down the feed return speed is not so simple so we have to live with this.
Colin
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as rob said a bit of vinyl over the sensor but only the rear one warning one day it will catch you out when squeezing the last inch out of a role.
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quote Chris Wool:as rob said a bit of vinyl over the sensor but only the rear one warning one day it will catch you out when squeezing the last inch out of a role.…done that once or twice… 😳
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I get the same warning on my 5000-60, as said above it when the material rewinds and ‘lifts’ (to close to wall etc), It not a machine fault – just a machine oddity!
David & Chris – add me to that 😳
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Thanks again. I reckon it was the rollers on the stand being to close to each other making the vinyl sit a bit high and easily falling off the rollers. I think that’s what Robert was suggesting as well?
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