Neil
New Member
Is there an easy way to get this machine to do a cross cut?
Whenever I cross cut the vinyl (which is every time I cut something), I have to:
1) manually advance the material about an inch (or else it will cut right on the edge of the graphic), then wait a couple more secs for the machine to respond.
2) press menu to enter the menu section
3) press next to go deeper into the menu
4) press F2 to select Cross Cut
5) Press F3 to confirm that I really wanted to cross cut.
Then wait for it to do it's routine.
Even though I've done this hundreds of times now, it doesn't seem to get any easier.
I'm baffled as to why they would make something as common as performing a cross cut as complicated as this is.
My old Summa only had 2 buttons. One of them was for cross cutting.
You pressed the button, it spat out the vinyl (so that it went ¾” past the graphic), you sliced off the vinyl and walked away with it. All done in a few seconds.
The Graphtec takes 5 different buttons and 20 seconds for it's so called "Auto Cross Cut".
You'd think with all those buttons on the control panel, they could have made a cut off button.
We have a button for "Copy" which I've never used and never will because I use software for that, but there's nothing for the most commonly used option of sheet cutting.
Somebody end my frustraion and tell me there's an easier way...
Perhaps Graphtec can ask their designers to get the machine to automatically advance 3/4" before cross cutting. At least that would eliminate one step in the procedure.
Whenever I cross cut the vinyl (which is every time I cut something), I have to:
1) manually advance the material about an inch (or else it will cut right on the edge of the graphic), then wait a couple more secs for the machine to respond.
2) press menu to enter the menu section
3) press next to go deeper into the menu
4) press F2 to select Cross Cut
5) Press F3 to confirm that I really wanted to cross cut.
Then wait for it to do it's routine.
Even though I've done this hundreds of times now, it doesn't seem to get any easier.
I'm baffled as to why they would make something as common as performing a cross cut as complicated as this is.
My old Summa only had 2 buttons. One of them was for cross cutting.
You pressed the button, it spat out the vinyl (so that it went ¾” past the graphic), you sliced off the vinyl and walked away with it. All done in a few seconds.
The Graphtec takes 5 different buttons and 20 seconds for it's so called "Auto Cross Cut".
You'd think with all those buttons on the control panel, they could have made a cut off button.
We have a button for "Copy" which I've never used and never will because I use software for that, but there's nothing for the most commonly used option of sheet cutting.
Somebody end my frustraion and tell me there's an easier way...
Perhaps Graphtec can ask their designers to get the machine to automatically advance 3/4" before cross cutting. At least that would eliminate one step in the procedure.