Plotter stretching graphics

[ngoepp]

When a file is sent to my 48" No Name plotter from Flexi the outcome is a gradual "stretching" of the graphic. It's not enough to be obvious right off the bat, but when we go to match up multiple lines of text it doesn't line up (with text cut on another plotter that is cutting correctly). In the end, it is consistently adding length but not width. The characters also get a little wider the further it gets into the graphic. Example: I ran 8 - 5.5" x 36" nested panels with one line of text and a 1/8" border - cut with 30" 3M HP vinyl. It ends up adding about 1/2" to the length of each panel rather than increasingly over the whole run. The roll weight is not causing this.

Anybody familiar with this?

 

[J Hill Designs]

try flexi production managers 'output size compensation' feature in the setup dialogue of your plotter

 

[Sticky Signs]

Are the wheels clean? Could be some debris built up.

 

[J Hill Designs]

thought that, but if it consistently added it to every panel (not slowly getting worse over the length of the full plot) it seems like a compensation issue

 

[Sticky Signs]

Maybe try doing a calibration.

 

[ngoepp]

Fixed it! I think. There's a setting called "Cutting Quality". I'd set it on "Small Letter" setting to improve a problem I had with barbed letters. It hasn't done the same thing since I switched it back to normal. Thanks for your assistance.