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Roland GR640 – Strange cutting sequence
When cutting our cutter seems to cut letters in a random sequence rather than one after the other. It’s a bit hard to explain so I’ve attached a link to a video. I’m sure there’s some sensible reason for it but it’s a real pain when you need something quick and it wants to take its time. Not sure if there’s a way to change this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sNMV9bjJdc
Thanks
Davy -
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Usually it would cut in the sequence that the file has been drawn in when in illustrator I think, I tested this a few urs ago and found that the order I added it to the artwork was the order it cut in, hope this helps
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Is there an "optimise cutting order" or similar within your software?
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That’s what I thought Shawn but if you watch closely you’ll see it cuts a few letters from one word then jumps to another where it cuts a few letters from it then goes back to the previous word. We’re only running versa works and I haven’t seen anything obvious Justin but I must take a look in the menus just in case
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Maybe speak to Roland tech they may have come across it before, I’m just waiting for the dongle for the 30 day trial of Roland print studio to see if better than Versaworks
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Just had a quick read about this on another forum. It seems this is an issue with versaworks as it reads the cut files in layers and there is no optimisation tool. I can’t link to the thread but google this.. it might help..
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Hi David, What cut speed have you got it on? It looks incredibly slow to me, though I haven’t used a roland cutter for about 10 years so maybe that’s just the way they are. I always thought cutters cut in the order that the artwork was created as stated above
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Hi Alex, it was only running there at 20cm/s. Has a max speed of 60cm/s but accuracy tends to drop. The image been cut had been printed and laminated, there was a lot of small text so accuracy was key as I didn’t want to lose any letters. I could understand it cutting it the order the artwork was created but it doesn’t even cut a complete word before jumping to another. Really frustrating watching it jump all over the place.
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quote Justin Atkins:Just had a quick read about this on another forum. It seems this is an issue with versaworks as it reads the cut files in layers and there is no optimisation tool. I can’t link to the thread but google this.. it might help..
Signs101 ..questions-regarding-cutting-order-and-job-spacing.136816/Yeah that sounds just the same as what we’re experiencing. Going to give our Roland engineer a call on Monday
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Have you tried creating a file from scratch and pasting in items in an order to see if it cuts them that way, then it will tell you if it’s the way the file is created or something else.
You could try exporting as a pdf or an eps (whichever is the opposite to what you’re using) to see if that makes any difference.
With our summa cutter we rarely run it on anything less than 800mm/s even on small text on printed and laminated vinyl so I guess that’s why I was surprised to see it cutting at that speed.
Hope you get to the bottom of it!
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