Edge 2 distroying vinyl

[CanuckSigns]

Hopefully someone can help me as this is making me tear my hair out!

we have an intermittent problem with our edge 2, every once and a while we are printing and get a "check foil" error message, when I open the edge, the foil is fine, but the vinyl is bunched up inside the printer, turns out the punched holes are getting torn on one side of the vinyl and causing a jam.

I've tried switching vinyls, hoping it was just the one roll, but no joy.

I just finished printing a 30 foot job on one roll, no issues, same vinyl has issues on the next job.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

 

[Fred Weiss]

Try cleaning and lubricating the sliding/toggling hold down clamp above the vinyl. If it doesn't move freely, variations in the punched width will result in a jam.

 

[CanuckSigns]

Try cleaning and lubricating the sliding/toggling hold down clamp above the vinyl. If it doesn't move freely, variations in the punched width will result in a jam.

thanks Fred, are you talking about the piece that must be unclipped and swung up to load the vinyl in, a kind of arm?

Also the plot thickens, The original tearing ussue happened when printing Gerber ruby red foil onto standard 3 mil vinyl, happened 3-4 times in a row, switched to a duracoat tomato red foil, ran the same file and no issues at all.

 

[Fred Weiss]

Yes ... it's actually called a bail.

If changing foils cures the problem it could be the foil clutches are slipping or the foil motor is intermittent. Or it could be as simple as the print head heat is causing more of a temporary sticking of the foil to the vinyl with the Gerber foil vs. the Duracoat foil followed by the bail clamp not sliding freely as the foil pulls away and causing the vinyl to come off the pins and jam.

 

[Marlene]

what brand of vinyl? other brands can't do the exact hole punch that Gerber does so it might not be hitting the sprockets right. also you said 3mil, have you set the temps for the right type of viinyl? default is 2 mil