Inconsistent cut depth on Versacamm

[Cheryl Smith]

I had this happen and realised that i had forgotten to reset the head height after printing a banner?…hope its a simple fix for you….aw just re read this…but mine was that it was not cutting thro enough…what a pain…nothing worse than living on your nerves about a piece of kit working or not…. 🙁

[John Dorling]

Hi Cheryl

you may have still have got it right though – my head height is set to low where it usually it is set to high, so it may be the same problem in reverse?!

I’ll give it a try and let you know.

Thanks

John

[Cheryl Smith]

fingers crossed for you John

[Dan Osterbery]

i might be wrong, but when you hit the test cut button it takes the pressure set by the machine, make sure that you havent got the box ticked that lets versaworks set the pressure and not the machine? that may be why you are getting different cut depths?

cheers

Dan

[John Dorling]

Hi thanks for the input. To clarify, we always set the pressure in the RIP, and our test cut is a simple cut file in the RIP, not the one on the machine. I am going to try setting the cut force to machine priority though and see if that helps. I’ll let you know.

Thanks

John

[George Elsmore]

I have this problem now and again and look forward to someone finding a solution, I had a thought that the cutting strip is not perfectly level so the cutter cuts nice in one place and deep in another

[John Dorling]

Hi George – I have had the problem with the cutting strip before too but this is something different. The cutting strip is fine and the cut is wrong across the whole job, front to back side to side.

Had a word with Harry at Edward Mathias and he said to set the pressure from the machine to rule out a problem with the RIP. He also said it may be an inconsistent power supply, or a dodgy solenoid.

John

[John Dorling]

I have now tried setting the cut force on the machine and that doesn’t help. One job will cut OK at 220g but when I come to cut another job it will almost go through the liner at the same pressure.

The most frustrating thing is that we can do a test cut and that will be fine (anywhere across the width of the bed) then cut a job straight away and the whole thing is over cut!

I am beginning to think it must be the solenoid. Anyone ever had to replace one of these?

John

[Gavin MacMillan]

this may be too late but one thing we have found (and you may already know!) is that ink makes a difference. If you test cut on just vinyl and lam with no ink you will get a different result from the actual job (if the job has bleed that you are cutting through)

G

[John Dorling]

Hi Gavin thanks for the reply. I hadn’t thought of that but I don’t think it can be that as we haven’t changed blades, media, laminate, inks etc and this has only just started happening after 4 years of trouble-free cutting.

Curiouser and curiouser…

John