Need Help More Opus issues with my summa 160

[TobyBeardsall]

This is driving me crazy! I am sure you all know the feeling. I have a large contract to produce wall art for an entire office block refurb. when I cut anything over 3m with Opus dots at 400mm, the cutting head progressively cuts 'off' as it goes up the print.

So the Print loads, I slow it down to 100 mm/s. all the dots are found without any intervention. the cutter cuts the first meter or so perfectly, then slowly starts cutting off. I am using 3mm dots that I manually add to the artwork at 400 intervals. (unfortunately I cannot use the adobe plugin as I am using unsupported Cs6.

As you can image I am losing print hand over fist, so desperate to resolve the issue. I have checked and cleaned the pinch rollers.

Any help out there?

Toby

 

[chrisphilipps]

Did you try to turn on OPOS Panel? It's a setting on the cutter that tells it to only cut what is within 4 of the registration dots before moving onto the next 4. It cuts down on media feed movement and should fix this issue.

 

[TobyBeardsall]

Did you try to turn on OPOS Panel? It's a setting on the cutter that tells it to only cut what is within 4 of the registration dots before moving onto the next 4. It cuts down on media feed movement and should fix this issue.

I just turned panelling on as per image, but just made a little breakthrough. So I added the dots at 400mm because that is what the plugin does, but I just removed all the dots except 4 corners and 2 at 1200 and it cut beautifully. I bet you that I placed the dots at 400, but in actual fact they should have been placed at 400 centres. If I placed. would the cutter be losing 1.5mm every time it measured a dot and that is what confused the cutter? Does anybody know the maximum distance between the dots can be. ie: if I am running a 3m print, would dots at 1500 work, or is that too long to see?

 

[TobyBeardsall]

Did you try to turn on OPOS Panel? It's a setting on the cutter that tells it to only cut what is within 4 of the registration dots before moving onto the next 4. It cuts down on media feed movement and should fix this issue.

OMG, Loving Panelling, Thanks for the steer.

 

[chrisphilipps]

Not a problem, glad it helped.