Signlab Print & Cut Registration Marks

[Steff Davison]

I dont know if this may help but….

I have flexi 12 Ive used flexi as a tool for cutting vinyl since I started, so I thought I knew it quite well, Ive recently added a Summa to a print and cut workflow. I couldn’t get my Summa to read the registration marks either. It was a different button on the menu, instead of cut/plot its something like contour cut, it tells the plotter that there is a relationship between the vector cut path and the registration marks (so it knows to look for them). do you have a similar button in signlab perhaps?

Steff

[Denise Goodfellow]

When we print and cut via signlab, sometimes it fails to find one of the rear marks, this is always an indication static is slowing the vinyl down so the machine misses the marks. Spray the machine with furniture polish. Every couple of days.
Spray the cloth then apply rather than spray the machine, as it can ruin the vinyl for print.

Hope that helps x

[David Hammond]

Cheers for the tips. :thumbup2:

I can only find one cut option, and it does read the first mark, but I’ll double check.

Never thought of static I’ll try the polish trick, but I’m not convinced it’s static, as we were testing cutting one row of 65mm stickers so the vinyl wasn’t overly long. I did try higher quantities in case there’s a minimum size you can print and cut and got the same issue. I’ll get Mr Sheen out on Monday, worse thing that could happen is the machine looks new :thumbup2:

Got an order to do Monday and save me repeating the job in illustrator, adding reg marks etc, if it worked.

[Frank Droog]

Are you cutting direct from Signlab or from VPM?
Is your cutter set for HPGL of GPGL?
When you turn your cutter ON, it should briefly say either HL or GL on the LCD display.

In GPGL mode, your cutter can be set for 4 differant resolutions.
2540, 1016, 508 or 254 steps per inch
or
0.01 , 0.025 , 0.0254 or 0.05 mm per step
Your Signlab/VPM resolution may be different from what your cutter is set for.
In VPM, you may need to go to Queue/Properties/Cutter/Resolution and change it from its default 1016
If it appeared to go twice as far as it should have, change it to 508 .
If it appeared to go 4 times as far as it should have, change it to 254 .
Note. You need to delete the job and exit VPM and then restart VPM and resend the job from Signlab.

[David Hammond]

Cheers frank.

Yes cutting from VPM.

Our plotter is set to auto on the hp/gpgl and vpm is using gpgl, may change it to gpgl on the plotter for sure.

Will check the resolution settings too.

Going to pop into the unit today and have a mess with it. :thumbup2:

[Hugh Potter]

I’ve only had a few months of ‘learning signlab’ for a few months early last year, great program for print & cut, I seem to recal you have to tell it the width of the vinyl in the printer when it went to the rip (cannot recall which rip now) and that the sets up the plotter when you go back to recut too.

probably useless info but it may help as the only proba I encountered was when we’d forgotten to change the media width.

[David Hammond]

Got the print and cut working, it was the resolution :thumbup2:

All I’ve ever used is the VPM for ripping files to the printer. Signlab is impressive and does some really good stuff (badges, variable data printing, automatically regenerating cut paths with variable data) but we’re in no rush to ditch illustrator for signlab, the UI just isn’t as clean, but then again they’re trying to teach old dogs new tricks.

Excellent tool all the same

[Hugh Potter]

that was my only gripe with signlab, I use corel and everything is crispy clean when working with it, the resolution on signlab just seemed rather lacking and I (in my short time working with it) couldn’t see how to make it any better, could make it worse easy enough!

I reckon if I was offered a fairly recent version at a sensible price that I’d take it, certainly when I get around to buying my own printer! VPM, that was it!