Ideas for a 54" Vinyl cutter

[LittleSnakey]

We just bought a Graphtec FC-8000 and its very tempermental.
We design and print with Flexi 8.6 to a VP540. Most things are laminated so the cutter must be able to read crop marks and align cutter

Cutter must also be 52-54" wide.

 

[Flame]

54" FC8000 is a top notch plotter, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Sure there are some other nice ones, but that plotter should be able to handle most any sign project you throw at it for the next 10 years.

 

[briankb]

I would thicken the crop marks and make them a little longer. I use the Illustrator plugin and it's fairly simple. I'm not sure how to do it in Flexi.

 

[Robert Boyd]

We also have the FC8000, I agree-it is tempermental - we use it with
Onyx Cut server2 - its a crap shoot

 

[smdgrfx]

I have a Mimaki, FC8000 setup. I only have problems with the crop marks when I'm cutting through Pro-Shield laminate. Otherwise, it works great. I'm using the cutting master software that came with it because I haven't upgraded my Flexi.

 

[amw]

We have no trouble with ours either.
We use cutting master2 on the FC8000 and print on a SP using versaworks.

Maybe its the type of crop marks your using?