Is it accurate in contour cutting digital printed media? For example 2-3m long? Is it correcting skew like Graphtecs?
It would be... but my story is we bought it cheaply as the previous owner could not get the crop mark detection to work. Mimaki techs came out, replaced a lot of it and it still failed. They then got a print-and-cut machine, and did not need this or their old JV33.
As a plotter, used with Finecut, it is in my opinion better than the old Rolands we also use. The process of running it is different, but good. (But I still use the PNC1410 just as happily)
I wanted to get cropmark detection going and 3 weeks ago finally I solved it. A minute piece of gunk had got off the vinyl and blocked the sensor. Fixed that and it DID detect and plot properly. It was an ordeal getting it though- barely a 2 mm gap.
BUT due to my ignorance, I had the crop marks too far apart, ie just 4, one at each corner of a 1.3 x 1.8metre piece, that had long since warped, shrunk a bit, wrinkled and sat awaiting the moment I got it going.
I should ideally have had the marks more closely spaced, like around each important element perhaps 40-50cm apart, and had a fatter bleed line. And I need to reregister the offsets more accurately as I'd changed them while trying to figure out how to make it work.
(That's the offset between where the sensor is, versus where the blade is.)
It has its own skew correction ability. I've not run another file yet to check it though.
It locates each corner of the crop marks, and calculates any skew based on where it finds them - if you choose to have it search each corner, rather than just the top two, and mid-lines also.
You CAN download the user manual, free.
Hope that helps. I'm NOT speaking from experience, but from 18 months anguish trying to get it right occasionally, and eventually finally succeeding!
