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  1. Blade depth changing during cutting.

    It's happened twice on the same job. I have a couple black marks on my blade holder so I can see how much I'm turning it when I adjust my depth. After I cut this sheet it had moved by almost a 1/4 turn. Very strange and not sure what to make of it. I reset the depth after and cut another sheet...
  2. Blade depth changing during cutting.

    So this is new to me and not sure why it's even happening. I do die cut stickers on my D140. I do two passes for cuts to score them deep so they are easy to pop out. Well one sheet I tried yesterday, it started fine and a test cut was good, so I cut the whole sheet and when I pulled it I noticed...
  3. Making less kiss cuts

    I do this often. I step out the pieces in Illustrator on my sheets (ie: 8.5" x 11") Crop the artboard right to the edges of my stepped items. Then I draw one line across the entire width and another for the height and step those out across the sheet. Definitely saves a lot of cuts when you have...
  4. Roland sp-540v carriage is shuddering

    I had similar issue on my SP-540V and replaced the scan motor and worked great. You might also have to replace the gear that the scan motor drives if it's damaged.
  5. Need Help SP-540 Not Cutting

    Nevermind...can delete this thread. It was a file saving issue and layer flattening.
  6. Need Help SP-540 Not Cutting

    I initiate the job in versaworks to cut only, submit it to start the cutting, it goes to processing on the machine for a few seconds but the cut head never even moves and then it stops processing like it's finished. Not really sure whats going on. I can do test cuts fine but this file isn't...
  7. Northeast Equipment Dealer

    I'm looking to get an new laminator and cutter and would like some recommendations on dealers in the Northeast. I previously used Grimco for my equipment so no need to recommend them.
  8. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    I tried some masking tape again, no success, I tried cutting out a registration mark from a printed sheet and pasting it over the printed mark, still no luck, I cut even more around that area to give it more white area and it still couldn't locate the mark. This is the only material I use that...
  9. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    SummaCut D140. It Says its possible to do manual registration. I think I'm halfway there, but just missing some important steps. I set it to XY Adjustment, which I think is the right setting for this. I initiate the cutting through Onyx Cut Server via TCP/IP it asks to set the origin point then...
  10. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    I'm not really sure I understand what you're trying to describe. Taking the registration marks which have been printed on white vinyl, which are .12" black squares for OPOS, and pasting them on the glitter? I might have 8-10 of those depending on how long my printed sheet is. I've tried putting...
  11. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    I never got training on my machine. I only know what I've learned by trial and error mostly. I don't know how to set origins and stuff like that on this machine. All I know how to do is optical recognition with the OPOS.
  12. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    If you're talking about this section, this is all it tells you. Otherwise it's all about OPOS that I can find. There is nothing I can find that tells you how to manually register marks. I see it tells you if it can't read them to register them manually but there isn't much in the way of...
  13. Print and Cut without Summa Marks

    So I have this red glitter material I print on for a customer and I've used my old Roland SP540 but I'm trying to get away from that. My summa cannot read these marks. I've tried taping over them and cutting out the reg mark, I've tried it with a yellow filter over my OPOS sensor and it might...
  14. Hello from New Hampshire!

    Welcome! I'm to the east of you in Maine. Lots of great info here!
  15. Summa S One 160 Drag pressure issue

    I have a similar issue except cuts are not as deep on both of the outer edges. I have not figured out why. Otherwise if you're trying to cut all the way through I'd say pull back your blade a little bit. When I do cut all the way through I use around 285G pressure and do the test cut until the...
  16. Suggestions Vinyl supplier

    That material specifically has been hard to get since covid. H&H was the one place I could find it. Also the manufacturer moved their plant recently so between raw material shortage and them moving it's been very hard to find the Fantasy Films anywhere. Briteline has a 6mil holo film now in 30"...
  17. What vinyl are you printing your stickers onto, and why?

    My go to for stickers is Briteline 2203 and their shield overlaminate. Together those are about 6.4mil which I find is a decent thickness. I go by the end use of the product for my choice of materials.
  18. Question Perforated labels

    It's just too thin without the overlam and people like the feel of it. So it's their choice and 99% go with lam. I do cut them on my Summa cutter. I put the perforations in a a flex cut except I set the full pressure to 0 so it doesn't cut through the backer and just the vinyl. I'll definitely...
  19. Need Help Die-cutting labels and stickers

    Yeah same here. Summa told me that Flex Cut cannot be used to do complex shapes.
  20. Need Help Die-cutting labels and stickers

    Great thread! I'm looking at a Graphtec FC9000 possibly. Currently I am doing an increasing number of "die cut" stickers on my SummaCut. It took a while to find a method that worked for me. I just setup two kiss cuts but run them fairly deep, just enough to break the backer. I find one just...
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