signman315
Signmaker
Hello to all the fellow signmakers out there!
I have a question regarding my Summa, Winplot, and horizontal copies....I'm wondering how to get the Summa/WinPlot to look horizontally for the next copy instead of just vertically. So for example when I'm cutting small magnets with somewhat complex cuts it's ideal if I can put a set of registration marks on a small batch or even single magnet....this way the cutter reads each set of marks, cuts one magnet, then goes onto the next one, reads those marks and so on and the cuts are perfectly accurate as well as it runs unattended until all jobs are cut. It will look vertically for the next copy by default but it never looks horizontally. I've attached a picture of what a sample print job looks like. I've done this method with a Mimaki plotter and in the Mimaki Finecut plugin for Illustrator you could just select how many horizontal/vertical copies there were and it would read horizontally until the last one then move up to the next row and so on. It's a super simple process and I've been using plotters/printers for 10 years but only owned a Summa for about 5 months and am embarassed that I can't figure this out. I've emailed tech support from Grimco (where the machine was purchased) and they just sent me the plotter's user manual and said "hope it helps"....which of course I went through the user manual before I contacted them for help. I didn't see anything in the manual, so either I'm missing something (hopefully that's the case) or WinPlot/Summa aren't capable of this (seems silly if that's the case). Thanks for all your help
I have a question regarding my Summa, Winplot, and horizontal copies....I'm wondering how to get the Summa/WinPlot to look horizontally for the next copy instead of just vertically. So for example when I'm cutting small magnets with somewhat complex cuts it's ideal if I can put a set of registration marks on a small batch or even single magnet....this way the cutter reads each set of marks, cuts one magnet, then goes onto the next one, reads those marks and so on and the cuts are perfectly accurate as well as it runs unattended until all jobs are cut. It will look vertically for the next copy by default but it never looks horizontally. I've attached a picture of what a sample print job looks like. I've done this method with a Mimaki plotter and in the Mimaki Finecut plugin for Illustrator you could just select how many horizontal/vertical copies there were and it would read horizontally until the last one then move up to the next row and so on. It's a super simple process and I've been using plotters/printers for 10 years but only owned a Summa for about 5 months and am embarassed that I can't figure this out. I've emailed tech support from Grimco (where the machine was purchased) and they just sent me the plotter's user manual and said "hope it helps"....which of course I went through the user manual before I contacted them for help. I didn't see anything in the manual, so either I'm missing something (hopefully that's the case) or WinPlot/Summa aren't capable of this (seems silly if that's the case). Thanks for all your help
