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Maybe a tiny bit simpler in Illy(less mouse clicks - no menus to open):
Rectangle selected "Ctrl C" "Ctrl F"
Select W "+2" tab over to H "+2"
(In the transform toolbar on top that auto-updates when an object is selected)
Print away.
wayne k
guam usa
Almost forgot - works the same...
The owners manual says its an option with that model, so it could have it.
You can find the manual here:
http://www.graphtecamerica.com/graphtec-america-support-downloads-cutting-plotters-discontinued-legacy-cutting-plotters-fc5100-series
wayne k
guam usa
Question on this,
do you (or can you) pause between passes to increase the down force or adjust the blade to cut a little deeper on the second pass?
Is it even needed? I have not had the need to cut 12mil lam.
wayne k
guam usa
Yep - hand cutting would be less painful than throwing good prints into the trash and sending a refund to my customers.
It's not as hard as you think.
Take some of those wasted prints out of the trash and practice cutting along the edge of your bleed.
Use an Olfa snap knife at an oblique...
I think the designer with the best goatee wins so post them up.
We can see Joe's faithfully digitally recreated without the use of Illustrator....
wayne k
guam usa
:Big Laugh
We use one of these.
Little expensive to run but it keeps our paperclips & pens in the office where they belong.
No questions asked about taking anything home
(keep copies of the scans for future blackmail opportunities).
wayne k
guam usa
I think the average sign maker will be able to grasp just about everything you put up there.
A minute or two into your video I think the average client's eyes will roll back into their head they will start to drool just a bit & then ask you to print their PowerPoint slides at billboard size...
Where does the contamination look like it is starting from?
Is it working it's way from the cart to the carriage, or does it look like it has started in the head and is creeping back along the lines to the carts?
The only place it could mix would be in the maintenance station or maybe a crack...
I dunno, we have had to hand cut a lot of stuff around here. If you can print the cutline you can follow it with a blade, just have to practice.
It's not a good long term solution but having some knife skills can be handy in a pinch when technology fails - I am fully prepared to hand cut...
The most common cause for this is the maintenance station.
Check to see that it is not plugged up or the sponge is not swollen up enough to come into contact with the head.
Not sure how but some here have posted that it caused cross contamination within the head.
The second would be to...
A few things to try:
On the printer there should be a menu to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor that reads the marks - turn it up.
In the software you use to set the marks - make them larger- thicker.
Make sure you have enough white space between the marks and the printed layout - if the...
With all of the cutting issues you are having couldn't you run a quick pen plot to confirm the cut before ruining the material?
I thought you had a separate cutter that worked well on the thicker material? Are these too big to run?
After the first couple of failures I'd hand cut that stuff if...
Biker you are really stepping in it, just like when you suggested a heavy thick laminate on long term banners that needed to be stored between events........
wayne k
guam usa
I think you have to go back to the drawing board.
Look at your thumbnail.
If you don't know what it says you can almost make out the word "signs".
The readability at relatively short distances is going to be poor.
The Jefferson State script is too compressed to have any contrast with the...
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