Print, LAM, Perf Cut frustrations.

[Shadowglen]

OK printing on oracal [FONT=&quot]3165GRA 3.0, laminating with oracal 210G 2.5 All printing and cutting are being done on a Roland[/FONT] VS 640. I printed a test sheet of 2" round decals 1 row with crop marks. I had the perf cut line right under the cut line so it would first cut the vinyl, then perf cut through the backing 45* blade at 130 g force for first cut and 200 g force for perf. cut. I previously got to these settings by slowly moving perf force up from 170 in 5 gram increments. I cut the row of stickers perfect. so this morning feeling confident in my per cut settings I used same material same machine same settings and the perf. did not even penetrate to the back side. for one I know I should probably be using a 60* blade, but the only real difference is the first ones that worked was cutting into a printed bleed and the unsuccessful run was cutting on no print just white area. same roll of film same roll of lam. Blade looks fine and cut all of the rest of the items that only contained a cut line and not a perf cut on the sheet just fine.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Dave

 

[graphicwarning]

Though I might not be able to directly answer your question... I can offer just a couple thoughts based on my experience using this.

I was never able to produce quality results with a 45 degree blade... I wanted to pull my hair out. Switched the 60 degree... night and day difference.

Another thing... why would you put a perf cut line right under cut line? There is no need for this as far as I know. The setting in Versaworks (assuming you are using versaworks) allows for a the perf downforce and cut downforce in the same setting area. When specifying these, you only need to add the perf cut line to your drawing. It will cut the perf and vinyl based on the settings you've specified.

And have you checked your cutting strip? In all the tests I did with mine to get it to work, I destroyed my cutting strip. When I finally got the settings I wanted and switched blades, still nothing would cut well because the strip was so badly cut up. New strip, and a 60 degree blade, and setting only the perf cut line... should get you were you'd need to be I think.

 

[Shadowglen]

Thanks for the knowledge.

I Ordered 60* blades and a 2 new cutter strips Funny a 54" cutter strip is around 18 bucks and a 64" is 34 bucks I was also told that the heat will make a big difference in how the perf cut cuts.