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Could easily add brush stroke effect to the print in photoshop

Back off on the pressure, blade just deep enough to get through the vinyl/laminate. Run that 2-3 times, same pressure, same blade depth every time and see how it goes

6 mil vinyl + 15 mil laminate. I would try doing several cutting passes. I know I would not enjoy trying to cut detailed stuff on 21mil material on a roll2roll cutter

My first guess would be the expired inks, how long ago did they expire? Give the inks a good shake to mix, inks probably settled from sitting for so long. Test on another media to rule out media

My 11 year old Roland VS series doesn't cut great anymore either, I'm guessing due to the age. But I have separate cutters so haven't tried to fix or figure out the cause

There are a number of vectorizing services that do excellent work. I've been sending out all my vectorizing needs out that would take me more than 5 minutes to do. https://www.vectordoctor.com/ is on the forums

On the other hand you would think someone buying a 250k machine would know how to set up cutlines already :confused:

The worst part about the oem blades is the tip breaking, 10% of the blades would break on day 1 for me when I had summa t series. Left a comment about it on summa reviews and that was deleted pretty fast. Blades are way too expensive for them to break that fast

What does the material/laminate cost per square foot? Calculate 54" x 200" of material = 75 Sq Ft , ink roughly 30 cents per square foot So 75sq ft x material cost per sq ft + $23 (ink) = your cost to print. Mark it up however much you want But you should really know how much you charge per...

Colex reads the forums so they'll probably contact you asap now

One other difference I have noticed between OEM blades and the cheap chinese blades is the OEM blades tend to chip at the tip at the end of life, they'll cut great until they chip mid job and then don't cut at all. The chinese blades tend to get duller and duller without tip chipping so cutting...

Ok I've only seen the Uk site, I've tried clean cut blades a few times years ago purchased from uscutter.

hmm https://cleancutblades.com/ CleanCut Blades Unit 2, Block A Westpark 26 Wellington Somerset TA21 9FH United Kingdom I don't see any Made in USA on that site you posted, usually that would be bold and center

and most of the time when you get the inks they're 6 months away from expiring, pretty short life. Not a problem if the printer is busy but full tanks of ink go a long way. 3 rolls of vinyl per week you'll need to waste some ink to keep it from expiring

clean cut isn't a US company either

You probably need to print more than 3 rolls per week for the Colorado to make sense over epson

Yes they just also come with the old style springs. Just dont use the springs with newer blade holder style. Some aftermarket blade holders use the springs

I get them on amazon, works great https://www.amazon.com/HQMaster-Lettering-Graphtec-Cutting-Plotter/dp/B0759P4N28/?th=1 Almost no difference from the expensive OEM blades. We can only sometimes tell a difference on very detailed heat transfer material. Other than that there is no reason to...

that's exactly what I do. I just found you can skip the photoshop step and do in illustrator by going to edit - adjust colors and do the blackout right in illustrator that way. Now that I've done a few thousand of these I pretty much do it automatically without thinking.

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