Kentucky540
New Member
Hello S101'rs,
We use our Roland 540 in niche industry so although I am good at trouble-shooting issues relating to the one-dimensional product that make up 99% of our work, we are expanding a little and some new process's(to us) are problematic.
The issue I am having currently is one with the knife.
>I am using Corel 15
>VersaWorks Rip
>Roland540 printer
We are prototyping a project on 10mil thermoformable vinyl substrate. I need two 1/4"(.250) holes to be cut into the vinyl that we will punch out by hand, post-run. I installed a Roland issued 60degree knife in the cutting barrel.
I have my CutCountourPerf line spec'd in magenta, set at "hairline".
The problem Im having is, that the knife simply will not lower onto the substrate to cut it. The cutting head is going through the motions of cutting after the print process, but the knife wont drop. Ive adjusted pressure on the 540 and Versa works but to no avail. Later, I created a specific cut-only test in which I put random shapes in a file and sent it. Everything worked fine. The knife cut the shapes and all was good. Both the test-cut file and the the project file use the same CutCountourPerf layer and I see the marching ants on both files in the Versa set-up window. Versa shows the "A" for special items when getting ready to rip.
I've combed over the manual for set-up tips, but nothing. I was wondering if anyone might be able shed a little light on the knife/cut process so I do not need to call in our tech from a state away to show me the obvious. We are a non-profit org and I would really like to fix this myself to save my company money, and just as importantly, learn more about my machine.
If you made it to the end of this, thank you for your patience and any help you may impart on this dilemma.
Regards,
LM in KY
We use our Roland 540 in niche industry so although I am good at trouble-shooting issues relating to the one-dimensional product that make up 99% of our work, we are expanding a little and some new process's(to us) are problematic.
The issue I am having currently is one with the knife.
>I am using Corel 15
>VersaWorks Rip
>Roland540 printer
We are prototyping a project on 10mil thermoformable vinyl substrate. I need two 1/4"(.250) holes to be cut into the vinyl that we will punch out by hand, post-run. I installed a Roland issued 60degree knife in the cutting barrel.
I have my CutCountourPerf line spec'd in magenta, set at "hairline".
The problem Im having is, that the knife simply will not lower onto the substrate to cut it. The cutting head is going through the motions of cutting after the print process, but the knife wont drop. Ive adjusted pressure on the 540 and Versa works but to no avail. Later, I created a specific cut-only test in which I put random shapes in a file and sent it. Everything worked fine. The knife cut the shapes and all was good. Both the test-cut file and the the project file use the same CutCountourPerf layer and I see the marching ants on both files in the Versa set-up window. Versa shows the "A" for special items when getting ready to rip.
I've combed over the manual for set-up tips, but nothing. I was wondering if anyone might be able shed a little light on the knife/cut process so I do not need to call in our tech from a state away to show me the obvious. We are a non-profit org and I would really like to fix this myself to save my company money, and just as importantly, learn more about my machine.
If you made it to the end of this, thank you for your patience and any help you may impart on this dilemma.
Regards,
LM in KY
