roland pc60 with flexi8 contour issue

[Ian Johnston]

set your line thickness as 0.000001mm or as small as it will go, and a specific colour it magenta, in the print menu set contour cut as magenta and it should work
Ian

[Martin Pearson]

Sorry don’t use flexi so can’t help with the question but if you introduce yourself in the hello forum & tell people about yourself you will find you get more replies to questions you post.

[Dave Willis]

thanks ive tried that. contour line set as magenta, small as i can, still no joy.

tried a contour cut on its own with no print, still did nothing although production manager does go through the process with both,
ripping ect – done
(but it evidently it lies)

[John Thomson]

To create a contour cut line in Flexi use the effects tab then contour cut….

John

[Dave Willis]

thanks john ive done that. ive got the contour line, it just wont contour cut!

[John Thomson]

What cutter? optical eye or manual registration?

After printing ( 4 registration marks are better) you must send the cut job from the production manager to the cutter…..you then get the option to use optical eye or align the registration marks manually.

John

[Ian Johnston]

John ,
It a pc60 that save is talking about. No optical eye, it’s and old thermal printer that you can print cut with through a windows printer driver. All cutting and printing is done via that driver.

Dave . Make sure you haven’t any other lines in the job. Select all and change colour to clear. Then pick contour line , copy it and paste and change colour and thickness, . Try making it the top layer,

Should work

Ps. I sold mine years ago, but there’s loads of days I wish I still had it

Ian

[Chris Wool]

quote :

everything works, as ive seen it. but in flexi i can print no problem at all. i can cut decals,
but i cant contour cut.

don’t understand sorry cos its flexy

does it use its own driver or the roland driver in the roland driver you have to have both printing and cutting selected.

[John Thomson]

apologies….my description was for a standalone cutter.

John

[Dave Willis]

ian; thanks but that hasnt done it

john; no worries

chris; i assume its using its own driver as all i did was plug it chose the roland from the list and set it as a hybrid.

as i said in an earlier post it was working fine on corel draw 7, is there much difference between the two, because i can pick that up cheap enough if it’ll make any difference

[Ian Johnston]

You haven’t installed the driver. It’s windows based like a desktop printer, you output your jobs through it as if you were going to print on an Epsom or lemark, from the properties menu of the print setup page you define spot colours, cutting etc. I think if you do a search the drivers are on here or a link to them

Ian

[Ian Johnston]

http://dg4.roland.co.jp/en/color.html#pc60

Try this link might help

[Dave Willis]

yeeaahhhh!
finally

thanks all, it still wasnt very straight forward but i got there.

bloody slow though isnt?

[Chris Wool]

slow it will be but because its stepper motor and very fine for the print makes the cutting finer than most dedicated cutters.
prints silver and gold very well on to gloss black

[Dave Willis]

oh yes it does do some nice work
thanks again

[Chris Wool]

welcome to the pc60-600 appreciation society just don’t do bigger stuff on it and keep it clean also vinyl to be spotless grit particles are the real enemy