HP 54 Basic Cutter - Cut the Substrate; Job types; Calibrations

To start from the cutter’s front panel:
1. Turn on the cutter.
2.
Press .
3.
Press . System setup appears on the screen. Press .
4.
Press or to scroll through the menu until you reach Actions. Press .
5.
Press or to scroll through the menu until you reach Media alignment.
6.
Press . The current align mode appears on the screen.
7.
Press or to change the value to OPOS barcode.
8.
Press to conrm. An asterisk appears by the value, indicating that it is now selected.
9. Now load the substrate as described in Register the markers on page 29.
The cutter reads the barcode and sends the barcode data to the computer.
The cutting software then automatically sends the correct cutting data to the cutter.
The cutter starts sensing the OPOS markers, then cuts out the job.
The OPOS sensor now searches for another job after the one that has just nished, and continues to contour-cut.
This is repeated until all contour-cut jobs on the loaded roll are done.
Job types
There are dierent kinds of jobs: mainly, print-and-cut jobs and direct-cut jobs; both are prepared at the
computer with the software provided.
When you start a direct-cut job, the cutter will start to cut immediately, so make sure you have the substrate
loaded before sending it to cut.
Print-and-cut jobs include an HP barcode as part of the print. This is read by the OPOS to nd out where the cuts
should be made. See Read the HP barcode on page 24.
Calibrations
To ensure that OPOS is working accurately, two calibrations are necessary: the OPOS calibration (see Calibrate
the OPOS sensor on page 48) and the substrate calibration (see Calibrate the substrate on page 17). The OPOS
calibration is the calibration of the distance between the knife tip and the sensor. The substrate calibration
teaches the cutter the reection levels of the marker color and the substrate color.
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