9 – 7
Solution
Switch the setting to MANUAL.
Check your setting procedure.
At the CONDITIONS menu, switch the
pen type setting from a blade type to
PEN.
Adjust the distance precision.
Lower the STEP PASS setting.
Check your cutting data by plotting it
with a pen.
Raise the OFFSET FORCE setting.
Switch to a medium with a stiff backing
sheet.
Check if any foreign matter has ad-
hered to the blade. If so, remove it.
Symptom
• Cutting conditions cannot be retained
or changed.
• Characters and lines become de-
formed when plotting.
• The plotter does not cut/plot the speci-
fied length (slight error in distance
precision).
• Characters become deformed.
• Complex images become deformed.
• The starting and end points of an
image do not match.
Cause
The CONDITION PRIORITY
setting is PROGRAM.
The ENTER key wasn’t
pressed after changing a
setting.
The plotter is set to Cutter
mode.
The DIST. ADJ. function is
improperly specified.
The STEP PASS setting is
too high.
The cutting data has not been
written so that the points
meet.
The OFFSET FORCE set-
ting is too weak.
The medium’s backing sheet
is too limp.
The blade does not rotate
smoothly.