SummaCut Series Cutters User’ s Manual
General Information 1-17
6. Set the knife pressure as follows :
• Power up the cutter and load a piece of media in the cutter (See
1.8.). Make sure that none of the two lower LED’ s are on. If one LED is
on, press on the respective button to turn it off.
• Start up the Summa Cutter Control software on your host PC (See
2.2.). Press the ‘Menu’ button on the main screen. (For more
information about setting up the port parameters, read the help
instructions included in the program)
• All the cutter’ s parameters will now be displayed. The first one is the
knife pressure which can be changed in a range of 0 to 400gr.
• Click the
‘Cut Test Pattern’ button in the lower right corner to perform
a knife depth test as illustrated in Figure 1-7 .
FIGURE 1-7
KNIFE DEPTH TEST PATTERN
The knife depth is correctly set when the test pattern is visible on the
front side of the media backing, but not on the rear side of the media
backing.
• Click on the ‘OK’ button to go back to the main window.
In general, you should increase the knife depth and knife pressure when
using thicker vinyl types.
7. Analogous to point 6. , the ‘knife offset’ can be changed (See 2.2.3.).
NOTE
As the ideal knife pressure setting depends upon the thickness and
the type of media to be cut, adjusting the knife pressure will require
some practice. In general terms, you should increase the pressure
when cutting thicker types of vinyl . For thinner types of vinyl, you will
normally have to reduce the knife pressure.
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