Post Cut Misaligned - Sp540V

[bnosanchuk]

Hi Guys,

We have a Roland SP-540V that we are trying to use to print, laminate, and cut a 6mil vinyl with a 10mil laminate (have to use three blade passes). Printing goes smoothly but when we reinsert the laminated material, the printer's cuts are slightly off. It has no problem reading the trim/crop marks though. The cuts are all about 3mm to the right of where they should be. We have done alignment correcting and inputted the numbers, but even after this, it still pulls 2-3mm over. But this is actually something we have noticed with our other jobs too. The cut pulls to the right (a smaller amount maybe 1mm), but we just include that in our bleed margin. It doesn't cause a problem with stickers but with the laminate cut we need it to be exactly centered on the print so both sides are even. So, is this something internal or with the blade carriage? Any ideas?

Also, when we reinsert the laminated material, it bumps against the blade carriage. We have tried to set the head height to 'high' but the menu will not toggle, only show 'low'. It scrolls/toggles through other options fine...

 

[J Hill Designs]

I dont have the machine, but if this helps, I have heard not to 'center on media' when doing print/lam/cut

 

[rjssigns]

We have an SP540V and limit our lengths to 5 feet.(it's showing it's age) Trying to hold register over three passes is asking a lot of the rig.

One thing you can do is to increase pinch roller tension. This really helped as before it couldn't be trusted anything over 3 feet. Mine is maxed out right now so I'm going to have to figure out a shim arrangement. Hate to buy more pinch rollers at 90 bucks a pop.

When everything was brand new it would do okay up to 10 or 11 feet with 0.500" bleeds.(did well actually) Hopefully I can get it to that point again.

Adjusting the nip pressure is really obvious when you see where the lever goes.

 

[phototec]

We have an SP540V and limit our lengths to 5 feet.(it's showing it's age) Trying to hold register over three passes is asking a lot of the rig.

One thing you can do is to increase pinch roller tension. This really helped as before it couldn't be trusted anything over 3 feet. Mine is maxed out right now so I'm going to have to figure out a shim arrangement. Hate to buy more pinch rollers at 90 bucks a pop.

When everything was brand new it would do okay up to 10 or 11 feet with 0.500" bleeds.(did well actually) Hopefully I can get it to that point again.

Adjusting the nip pressure is really obvious when you see where the lever goes.

I have the same older printer, how do you increase pinch roller tension?

Is it a manual adjustment?

Thanks

 

[bnosanchuk]

Center On Media

Oh, yes I did use the center on media... I'll see if not using this helps. Thanks for the advice!