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How do you set up seperate printer & cutter to work toge
Hi
We are selling our Mimaki CJV30-130 print & cut shortly and going for a separate printer and cutter.
I use Corel for design and sending to other software; up to now finecut installed with the mimaki has passed the information to Rasterlink RIP which has handled the print and/or cut at same time or separately.We are moving to Onyx RIP for the printer and using a Graphtec for cutting so how does that work please?
I presume that I have to place registration marks in the corel file that will be cut after print (sent to onyx rip). Do I have to send same file to the Graphtec via another software prog, have heard bad things about cutting master for graphtecs or can I upgrade Signlab that I use on our stand alone plotter to utilise signlab for cutting output?
Sorry if a bit garbled, can’t get my head around it and want to avoid cutting master also.
John
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I print on my RS-640.
In Illy I add the registration marks, then print the file.
Load the vinyl into my graphtec plotter. I have the cut paths on a seperate layer turn off the print layer, turn on the cut path layer and cut through Cutting master using the illy plug in.
Works ok, having a little moment with CM just now but other than that it does what I want it to.
A common mistake I make is setting the cut path to magenta (so I can see it over the print) and not turning the visibility off when I print the file, so I end up with a magenta line around my print- Any miss alignment by the plotter and it’s on the vinyl for good.
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John
i’m sure Onyx can generate the reg marks for different cutters & run the cutter, will depend on the version you get but it is easier to do it all in one programKev
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hmm… ok graphtec can be run from ONYX but i doubt u will, u end up using cutting master (as we do).
I will be experimenting with it soon, but i suspect i have to change to HPGL instead of GPGL for the language, i am not certain. Not sure what impact that will have.
The question is, will the Graphtec cut standard vinyl colours are we going to be stuffed? thats what i want to know
u must have a good reason to change printer..maybe i read it already but i dont remember the thread
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Thanks people, I’ll look further into it. To be honest the mimaki CJV has been brilliant for our main uses as small to medium business so I hope it is going to be a good reason to change Dave. We have been investigating the HP latex for a while now and have jumped to that as the very good offers available are set to end in October, presumably as the new model launches. Hope it’s a right decision we make, will keep you informed.
John
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i don’t know much about the hp latex but i would make sure that you speak to people with them doing the type of jobs you want to do, just my personal concern for very accurate cutting is the amount of heat used while printing and some distortion issues. on a lot of jobs it would not matter too much.
one of the reasons i passed it by this time. -
Yes Chris, noticed the recent thread on the ‘bowing’ problem. We don’t cut many small stickers and I think that would be where the bowing would mainly show up most. Generally we print larger images and put plenty of bleed in so 1-2mm per metre is acceptable. Pity we can’t have 1 machine that does everything exactly how we would want it at less than 50k say but we try find the right mix for how we work or try and think ahead of the game to find a little niche somewhere and capitalise on it before everyone else finds out, you can bet a toy gun sprayed gold at the moment fetches more than one sprayed black, especially if you give a free stick on goatey beard away with it.
Sorry, been one of those long days that make me ramble on in tiredness, do you think we still have genes in us that are telling us now is the time look for a cosy hole to hibernate in, loads of people I know are same tired as I am this week.John
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