Wonky Cuts on Brand New HP/Summa Plotter

[Signstein]

Ugh. Both our brand new HP printer and plotter have gone out of commission today. Not sure what's going on with the plotter. Everything is cutting wonky - like not closing shapes and cuts not lining up. Has anyone seen this before? Everything seems to be working correctly. I've tried sending cuts both from Flexi and from GQ Manager (Composer). Same results. The only thing I can think of is some kind of conflicting settings - like the software and plotter have opposing settings and it's cutting all wonky.

 

[Dluckz]

Could be your blade type to offset ratio in plotter settings. For example, I believe our "regular" daily use plotter blade has offset set at 0.30 and our reflective at 0.75. Usually this is what determines where the blade begins cuts and finishes cutting by input of what angled blade being used.

 

[Stacey K]

1. Tighten your blade. When I got mine the same thing happened.

2. Check to make sure your rollers are down firm on the vinyl. My center one likes to hover just above unless I nudge it down - took me a while to figure this one out LOL

 

[JBurton]

+1 for a loose blade, but the wrong blade settings will do the same.

 

[cornholio]

Cut out some 45° rectangles or squares. If you see "stepping", your timing belt is jumping.
It could also be a pulley, that isn't properly fixed on the axle.
Standard blades from Summa(HP) have a .43mm offset. Do a offset testcut to see, if it's ok.

 

[Signstein]

Thank you Stacey and JBurton!! Geez, I spent a good half hour messing with settings and doing test cuts trying to figure out that the frickin blade was loose...