How should I do this?

I have a summa S2 160T.

So I have a 22’ long bit vinyl for a vehicle and I’m still relatively new to the summa for large scale cuts such as this - looking for input as to what the best method is vs how I would do it.

It’s a fairly simple shape, not quite a straight line but a slight curve all the way along. In an ideal world with no problems whatsoever this would probably cut it in about 20 seconds. (There is two parts, one for either side of the bus). So essentially, up and down across the whole of the artwork twice.

I have tried;

Naturally, the summa pulling the entirety of this vinyl through the machine and back four times isn’t ideal so I set it to scan 2 marks (marks every 500mm) then cut. It scanned the first two marks. Cut, went to scan the next two, but then instead it pulled the artwork all the way back through the summa and essentially unloaded itself on the loading side. I plan to try cut this again but with different settings?

for speed I set it all the way down to 50. When it failed the summa had a blank screen, is there any way it went to sleep? It does freeze relatively frequently but the firmware is up to date and I haven’t had it do this during a cut.

Any help appreciated/let me know what settings you’d use for speed/reading/cutting.

 

There is on the passenger side but driver side is the full 22’. I take it you’ve tried to get it to scan 2 marks and cut, scan 2 then cut etc? No joy? Funny watching it slowed all the way down for a change!

 

That’s what I referred to in my original post. You can set how often it prints it’s continuous marks (I’ve chosen every 500mm). Then you get an option of having it read all the marks then cut the entire thing, read 2 marks then cut (panneling) or read 4 marks.

It cut the first two then just threw it back out. Almost like the summa fell asleep. PC was still running and I can’t see any sleep settings on the actual summa. Hence why I’m here for advice lol

 

Worth a shot! Mimaki can do the continuous reg marks can it not? I remember seeing it in rl5 and rl6 but it’s always been greyed out for some reason

 

Ok, so I’ve tried pretty much every option now but the main problem is the summa keeps freezing every time I try get it to panel. It reads the first two marks, cuts, then freezes when it’s meant to read the next set. Any ideas?

Firmware is up to date and I’m sending jobs via onyx 18.5

 

this is what I’ve been doing, after getting to around panel 6 it freezes/crashes and one time earlier it threw the head all the way to its housing quite aggressively.

I believe this is our issue. It’s not been consistent at all at where it ends. Just seems to sporadically give up. So a 22’ panel probably isn’t going to work tremendously lol.

Ended up just giving up and going over this by hand with a knife. Not overly fun!

 

Fully agree. Going to try get a tech out and see what they think. I’m also using the USB instead of network if that’s any help - what about you two?

 

Just a quick update, after explaining to the tech our problems (and it’s inconsistent nature) he’s coming out to replace the main board. Will keep you updated as to if that works or not!