Issues Lining up vinyl

[blufftonsignguy]

I am all of a sudden having an issue lining up my vinyl on my Roland SC 545EX. I am attempting to line it up so that I can contour cut it. It printed everything just fine (I guess) including registration marks. I put the vinyl back into the machine to contour cut and everything lines up just like normal. When I send it to find the registration marks, it gets to the back end and sometimes find one registration mark, but never finds the last one. I have noticed after trying this numerous times, the vinyl ends up running 1/2" out of line in a 60" run. Can anyone explain this or help me in this matter? I completely don't understand why its doing this!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nikole]

Sometimes manually finding the registration marks will work. If you haven't tried it before, it would be in the manual or google it.

 

[Snydo]

Your media may have been skewed slightly when you printed it.....instead of lining up the edge of your media try making sure your crops are square to each other on the platen.

 

[AaronSSsignsKC]

Good tip for print and cut machines is to keep in mind like the last person said during print the media could have been skewed and ran a little, if you dont load the media the exact same way the machine will think the crop is in one spot and really be in another. I would always just visually double check that youre crop or cut marks look square to the machine platen. GOOD LUCK

 

[oksigns]

I do a lot of ~60" x 32" panel stuff and I always center the art on the media. It seems to be more forgiving as it floats within the media rather than riding the outside line. You have up to 5 degress of play before things go haywire. Also, make sure the media is even on the roll before loading.