User’s Guide – Ultima cutting plotter
72 AP-75032, Rev 2.2, 20/04/07
5.3. OFFSET PRINCIPLE
One of the most important factors to obtain good quality, but unfortunately also one of the factors that is
easily forgotten, is the offset.
1: Cutter blade
2: Theoretical Offset
As you can see in the above figure, the knife offset (2) is the distance between the knife center and the knife
tip.
Accurate measurement of the OFFSET to be used is very difficult and requires specialized equipment. You
should therefore adjust the offset (2) by checking real cutting results on the media you will use. MUTOH
helps you doing this by way of a semi-automatic offset adjustment routine, which has been integrated into
your cutter.
5.4. OFFSET EFFECT
The selected Offset value is LARGER than the
optimum knife offset.
The selected Offset value is SMALLER than the
optimum knife offset.
In this case, a square corner will be cut as follows : In this case, a square corner will be cut as follows :
The cutting direction is indicated by the arrow. The
corners are not well formed.
The cutter cuts too far in the angular points.
The cutting direction is indicated by the arrow. The
corners are not well formed. The cutter did not cut
far enough in the angular points.
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