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Little one but easy to do. Sometimes when cutting some very thick and/or stiff / heavy materials they tend to bow up some between the rollers on your cutter. This causes the blade to drag across and scratch the surface of the print just with the head moving about when it's not actually cutting. Couple of solutions for this - ideally put feed tables in front of and behind your cutter at the same hight as the cutter so the material can lay flat while it's runnign through the machine. This does work great but sometimes you are in a hurry and just want to let the material hang down on each side of the cutter like you normally would.
Take a wooden swab stick - tape it to the carriage close to the blade. Of course the location you could tape it will vary from brand and model of cutter. This is on a Summa S160T. Cutting thick 6 mil vinyl with a 8 mil polycarbonate overlaminate. Just set the swap to push down slightly on the material - not hard just enough to keep it down lower than the knife in the up position. Works great.
Just have to experiment a little with your own setup. Do not want it too low that it might catch on the edge of the material or anything. I've done this for years on both this Summa and a Mimaki CG-130FX I used to have here.
Take a wooden swab stick - tape it to the carriage close to the blade. Of course the location you could tape it will vary from brand and model of cutter. This is on a Summa S160T. Cutting thick 6 mil vinyl with a 8 mil polycarbonate overlaminate. Just set the swap to push down slightly on the material - not hard just enough to keep it down lower than the knife in the up position. Works great.
Just have to experiment a little with your own setup. Do not want it too low that it might catch on the edge of the material or anything. I've done this for years on both this Summa and a Mimaki CG-130FX I used to have here.
