Need a little help please

you may need to change your page length on your plotter.............set it to like 1000+ inches on the control panel of the plotter...


Case

 

He's saying your "page" setting for your plotter may be limiting to your 24" limits. You're going to have to go into custom settings and tell it the material is X.

X>50"

 

As soon as CM opens you will see a tabs for media size and job size. Just adjust them accordingly.

 

It must be similar to flexi, the job size maybe has to be at 100%?
Hope this helps.

 

send it from illustrator full size then...

 

rotate the artwork in CM maybe? (dont use the software, so just a guess)

 

Hello,

Double check what was suggested to you before regarding page length:
(not sure if I missed you mention the exact model I'm assuming you have a CE500)
-PAUSE, NEXT until you see Page Length, ENTER set to 1196in ENTER,-
then press NeXT until you see Command, ENTER, GPGL, ENTER, MAKE SURE YOUR Step Size setting is the same as in CM2 or 254.
In CM2 check the Step Size setting by clicking on the Adv. tab, Step size and again make sure you have it set to exactly what is on the plotter, this step size setting if its not matching will mess w/ the scale of you job.
Now, after confirming this. Do not scale or resize your job w/ in CM2- always try to work w/ the exact sizes right out of your Adobe Ill. When you open CM2 the job size should be the same as in your design- if its not this is normal because if you have a weed border activated it will take that into account on the job size. Remember you can always load the Pen that came w/ the plotter, and turn your vinyl upside down and plot on the white backing to see or practice how you job is going to come out that way you dont waist to much material troubleshooting.

 

Un-check Proportional and you can enter any length and width you want. As far as "sections" on your pre-plot screen....If you were using Flexi Rip & Print this would indicate that you have 'Paneling' turned on. Best of Luck.

 

I am using CM2 with ai CS3 with a graphtec CE3000-60. On the media size page in CM2(the first tab) the top drop down should be user defined. Then the media size to what the plotter gives you after it runs the set-up. This is the only one you should adjust. The second one should be 1968.00inches. Under job size the fit to media is unchecked and the proportional is checked. Under copies the selection only should be checked. This is my settings and I know that if something is accidentally changed, it will default to those settings until changed back. Something may have been entered in the wrong place. On my system it's usually job size entered when I meant to change the vertical media size. Try another random job and increase it's size to about the size of this one and see if it's CM2 or the ai file itself. If the problem is only the ai file, then try to copy the art and paste in a new file, save as a test file and that may work. It often does for me.
Hope this helps, if not you can email me the file and I will try to send it to my plotter and see what's up with it.
Joe

 

I basically gave you 2 instructions, 1 was to check your page size: Pause, NEXT, until you find page size, enter, 1196in, enter. then go ahead and find Command, EnTER, ENTER check the step size,make sure that is set to what ever you have under step size in the cm2 window under Adv. basically the step size setting has to match on both the plotter and in CM2- if not you;ll have scaling issue.
If you still have the problem, it may be a good idea to reset CM2:
Close CM2 completely, Windows start button, Programs, CM2, preference manager, load, OK. close. try again.