One common frustrating issue with vinyl cutting machines is that they may start cutting random lines in the middle of your project screwing everything up and wasting valuable material.
Why my vinyl cutter cut 2 lines before.
When you hit cut to bring up the cut window try to change the holder setting to pen and set the option below to draw draw cut lines.
Support told me to leave it off my off set is a nightmare playing with 0 25 28 30 my ts and es are messy.
Cutter is not cutting circles round they look like a saw blade is there some kind of adjustment within the program.
Stahls tv presenter courtney kubitza demonstrates why your vinyl cutter.
I have been very patient and try to line up the vinyl as straight as possible.
I think i packed it up almost a year ago and still have the settings st the back of a clipboard btw uscutter customer service is great i broke a few arms working with rhinestone material and they were great with troubleshooting and replacement.
I am trying to cut an existing file but only need to cut part of it.
There are a number of potential reasons why a vinyl cutter will cut random lines behave erratically or just stop cutting in the middle of a cut with these outlined as follows.
Port selection effects all cutters try to avoid using a windows port for serial com cutters as there are several settings that will permit the cutter to work but can cause communication problems during cutting.
However lately my vinyl seems to be moving during a cut.
Make these changes for a more fluid transfer of information to the cutter.
My middle roller i don t use at all if i do my vinyl will cur up and cause it to raise and knife goes crazy.
I have had my graphtec ce5000 for about 6 months now and i love it.
Before you chuck your cutter out the window or shuffle back to the store for a refund i already did a little digging into this issue.
Another reason why your machine cutter might be producing poor quality results might be the speed of the cutter.
My settings for sign vinyl were.
I would be happy if i can get it right on and deal with the middle roller.
45deg blade 8 in sec 70g 30offset 1x cut.
Reconnect cables and increase.
More so on larger runs.
Out of the question to use 34 inch vinyl.
Has your heat transfer vinyl or sign vinyl ever had skipping or perforated lines.
If your r series cutter is is making random or incomplete cuts it s possible that it is receiving information too quickly to process.
Another result of incorrect speed setting is the end point appearing offset from the start.
Too high speed can cause partial cuts i e the cutter blades to skip the vinyl material or fail to cut a solid line.