Pcut630 – trouble setting knife and cutting

[Derek Heron]

best if you say hello and introduce yourself in the say hello section

you should back off the pressure and gently increase it you only need to score the heatpress vinyl and remove the excess
leaving the required text or logo (in reverse)

hope this helps

derek

[Martin Pearson]

Have a look through the Pcut plotter section, lots of stuff in there on setting them up.

[Graham Shand]

A few things, you did not mention type of vinyl, flock, glitter etc etc, they all require a different pressure, with the Pcut you would require a min of 110 for standard vinyl , but do a test cut first starting from 90 , also is it a new blade ?, I would also use a 60 degree blade for flock and a 45 degree blade for standard heat press vinyl, it is trial and error and a steep learning curve, the other thing is slow the speed way down. The thicker the material the higher the pressure required. good luck

[Rich Fereday]

Gents

Thanks very much for this, thought it might be a case of trial and error!!

Cheers

Rich

[Brian Carey]

Try getting some smart blades from Edward Mathias, they come preset, i use them in my 630 and find them great, no messing around trying to set them up, when they are blunt you send them back for replacements,
I use a press pressure of 100 upwards for standard vinyl.

BC

[Brian Carey]

forgot to mention try setting the cut speed to 50

gd luck

BC

[Rich Fereday]

Brian

Thanks very much for this.

Sounds like a plan to me!!

Cheers

Rich

[Rich Fereday]

Dear All

Thanks for the previous advice, the smart knife worked wonders!!

However, I’m now having problems with cutting, I’ve set the compensation, pressure and speed but am not getting consistent cut’s, the media doesn’t seem to be held in place tight enough, when cutting it "ruckles" up.

I’m cutting heat transfer vinyl.

I’ve unrolled the media, cut a section to use so it feeds through, but still can’t seem to resolve the problem.

Does anyone else with a pcut 630 have these problems or a solution (?)

Cheers

Rich

[Martin Pearson]

Don’t cut the material myself but from posts I have read on here some heat press vinyls require a 60 deg blade rather than a 45 deg blade. People have also mentioned that you need to slow the speed right down for cutting certain types. Placement of rollers is also important with any media your cutting.

[Chris Wool]

quote :

However, I’m now having problems with cutting, I’ve set the compensation, pressure and speed but am not getting consistent cut’s, the media doesn’t seem to be held in place tight enough, when cutting it “ruckles” up.

if you can see the vinyl and backing lifting in places as the knife changes direction then, one of these

cutting strip has a sharp gouge in it.
knife blunt and too much pressure
cutting too deep you only need to cut the vinyl
the backing paper is sticking to the bed or the cutting strip so not slipping when under knife pressure (clean and polish)
pinch rollers positioned too far out to the edge.

[Rich Fereday]

Gents

Thanks very much.

Yes the cutting strip does have a "cut mark" in it.

I’ll look to replace this.

Cheers

Rich

[Chris Wool]

if its a hard plastic type of strip you can wet and dry paper it smooth then put a strip of vinyl over it, as a temp repair.