Plotter Problems

[Red Baron]

I have a JV33-160 and a CG160FX plotter. I have had this equipment for less than a year. I have not had to make any stickers or do contour cutting as of yet. My current jobs are banners printed direct to banner media.
Recently, I printed some lettering to be placed on a vehicle. The print turned out fine, but when I went to plot it seemed to be plotting on a much larger scale. The plotter was plotting for approx. 10" letters and I had only printed 4" lettering. It literally was going off of the media. I have tried repeatedly to get straight answers on how to resolve this problem and have had no luck. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

[supergecko28]

Can you give me some more info on the steps you went threw to create and cut the letters?

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

If your using FineCut you have to use Illustrator to make your cutlines, then print adding the crop marks and contours.

 

[Red Baron]

I am currently using Adobe CS3 and Fine Cut 7. I have put the cut lines in with Adobe and reg. marks. I used all the standard steps with layering. The print come through perfect, but the plot is much larger than the print on the media. Any ideas?

 

[eforer]

Are you detecting the Reg marks in software and on the plotter itself?

 

[Red Baron]

All reg. marks are being detected. That's where I'm confused. If they are being detected, then the program should automatically know the size of the area.