Graphtec 8000 user manual

Page 54 Press the [1] key. It will return to default screen. Setting the Speed Set the speed of the tool that is used in each of the condition numbers. Page Setting The Acceleration Setting the Acceleration Set the acceleration of the tool that is used in each of the tool condition numbers. Page Adjust The Blade Length Manually Adjust the Blade Length Manually Optimal cut is not achieved unless the blade length is adjusted in accordance to the used media and the cutter blade.

Perform further adjustment by performing cutting test after adjusting the blade length manually. Page Running Cutting Tests Running Cutting Tests Test cutting can be performed after making the tool, speed, force, and acceleration settings to ensure that the selected cutting conditions actually produce the desired cutting results.

Check how far the blade cuts into the media and how the corners are being cut. If the cutting results are not satisfactory, adjust the various settings and repeat the test cutting until the optimal settings are achieved.

Repeat cutting test and adjustment until optimal Confirm cut is achieved. Adjustment of Offset Check the corners of the triangles and rectangles. See Supplement "Setting the T ool" Message prompting to turn the blade-length adjustment knob is displayed. As instructed, turn the blade length adjustment knob to the left Supplement to fully retract the blade. Page Chapter 3: Basic Operations Chapter 3: Basic Operations This chapter describes the basic methods to operate the plotter manually.

All the operations described in this chapter is to start from the READY status media is set as a general condition. Perform the operation described in this chapter after making the plotter in READY status referring to previous chapter. MENU screen is displayed. Press the [1] key TOOL. It also can move the tool carriage and media to the origin, or move it certain distance to keep it away. Press the [1] key 1. Supplement Value chosen here will be the movement distance for the step movement.

It makes it easier to confirm the cutting results if you perform this operation after the cutting is completed. Press the [1] key No. The origin point can be set at any location. Supplement See "Settings of Controls from Computer" Press the [MENU] key. Operation selection menu is displayed on the screen of the control panel while it is stopped. It is possible to choose either to continue or stop the operation.

Operation will stop and following screen is displayed. Supplement Following screen is displayed. See "Pause and Resume Cutting" P. It is possible to cut at any location manually, or to automatically cut when the cutting is completed. Force of the blade when the cross cut is made is called cross cut force, and it can be adjusted. Media If the cutting was very small, cross cut will be made at 40 mm including the cutting itself.

Page Automatically Cross Cut Automatically Cross Cut will automatically cross cut after cutting when the cutting is done with provided software. See the User Guide for the provided software for details. This Setting range of cross cut force is from 1 to The force will be larger with larger value. It is set to 30 as a default. Page 83 Page Chapter 4: Convenient Functions Chapter 4: Convenient Functions This chapter describes about the convenient functions of the plotter.

Page Settings For Cutting Settings for Cutting Settings such as area and width of cutting, page length, mirrored, enlarged, shrunk, etc. It is possible to set the origin point at the center when the HP- P. Press the [1] key AREA. Coordinate value displayed here is the distance to the tool carriage from the origin point.

It is possible to set that it will cut to the area outside of the push rollers, or not to cut at the ends of the media. Default setting is to the internal edge of the push rollers.

It can be set up to 10 mm outside positive value or 10 mm inside negative value from the default position. Check the setting of the page length when cutting long length. FC guarantees the accuracy up to 15m page length. It depends on the media specifed by Graphtec and setting conditions. Setting range is from Press the [3] key AREA.

Press the [1] key ON. Supplement Press the [2] key OFF to turn off the mirror. The rate of enlargement or shrinkage of the cutting data can be changed by settings.

Supplement Do not send new data to plotter while copying. Cutting data in the buffer memory will be cleared. Previous cutting data will be cleared and newly sent data will be stored as cutting data if you send new data with 10 seconds or more interval from the time it fnished cutting.

Origin point Copy space It is possible to quickly switch the different settings by the dual Cutting data will be cleared when USER is configuration. USER screen is displayed. Settings from the controller are not accepted. This function becomes enabled by turning on the apparel mode.

Turn off this function for all other uses. When the apparel mode is on, if the control command is not received within the specified time, it will be considered as timeout, and media will be cross cut.

It will be set to mode for apparel when the apparel AP mode is set on. Use it turned off for all other cases. Page Accuracy of registration mark scan is within 0. Be caution about following when scanning the registration mark. Number of the MARK TYPE2 is used when you would like to use as much area registration mark will be different for the possible on the media as cutting area. But if there are many registration marks, it will take longer to detect, and the area that can be cut becomes smaller.

Page Alignment registration mark A function to continuously cut the print with same design aligned, using a plugin for the Illustrator. It is appropriate for cutting multiple numbers of stickers or similar. Supplement It cannot be set on the plotter. Preset Size of the registration mark that can be set is from 5 mm to 20 mm.

Bigger registration mark size is better if there is difference in printing or media is set tilted. But the cutting area becomes smaller with the bigger registration mark.

Press the [2] key ARMS. Press the [1] key X. X AXIS setting screen is displayed. Setting range is from 0. Page Origin Points Press the [1] key 5mm , the [2] key 10mm , or the[3] key Supplement 50mm. Page Adjusting The Sensor Level Adjusting the Sensor Level level threshold value between the media background color and registration mark of the sensor scanning Scan the registration mark is automatically adjusted.

Sensor is adjusted to scan the registration mark written in black lines on white background. Readjust the scan level of the sensor depending on the color and gloss of the media. Supplement Following message is displayed. Speed It may not scan the registration marks or the difference may become large when the speed is too high, but the cutting time becomes longer when the speed is too slow.

Therefore, it is Sensor necessary to adjust the coordinate values of the scanned registration mark so it will match with the cutting position. Page Using the registration mark plotted in step 9, measure the Supplement distance of how much the comparison registration mark needs Position of the registration mark is measured at to be moved so both will overlap, and record the value.

As the center of the line. Supplement Plot the registration mark before going to following steps if there is no registration mark written on the media. Following message is displayed. Set the X value measured in step 9. There are following 3 methods depending on the number of registration marks scanned.

In general, the adjustment becomes more accurate with more registration marks scanned, but it will take longer to adjust. This adjustment is called 2 axis adjustment tilt adjustment. If the loaded media is tilted as shown below, position of the scanned registration mark is shifted from the position where it should be. Steps are different from here depending if it is going to move to registration mark automatically to scan the registration mark, or if it is going to move manually to scan.

See next section. Automatically Adjust P. See "Automatically Adjust" P. Page Chapter 6: Manual Position Adjust Chapter 6: Manual Position Adjust This chapter describes the method to manually adjust the position of the media and tool, specify the position of the registration marks adjustment marks , and adjust the tilting of the axes and distance.

It is possible to increase the precision when cutting outline of the image plotted by other plotter or need to cut the media again by this method, if the registration mark cannot be scanned by the ARMS. The distance between each points can also be entered to adjust the distance. Use magnifier or light pointer as a tool to match each points. Supplement Adjustment will be cleared if following is done after setting the adjustment.

Set the rotation or mirror prior to the axis adjustment Axis adjustment will convert in accordance with rotation or mirror in this case. Input value initially same as measured value is displayed under that. If the input value is not changed, it will assume that there is no difference between measured distance and the distance in the data.

Page Chapter 7: Setting Regarding Cutting Quality Chapter 7: Setting Regarding Cutting Quality There are times that ideal cutting may not be possible, such as the lines may shift, corners deform, or uncut sections occur, due to the characteristics of the media thickness, how hard it is, etc.

The tip of the blade is shaped as shown so the blade is facing the cutting direction even when it is cutting curved lines or corners. The blade will automatically turn and face the cutting direction when the tool carriage moves, because the blade is forced to move from the rotation center, and the blade tip gets resistance by the media. Tangential control is generally used for the cutting of thick media. With thick film, additional time is required for the cutter blade to penetrate the media fully, even when the necessary cutting force is applied.

The cutting operation starts before the cutter blade has fully penetrated the media, causing uncut sections to be left. It will cut in the units of the specified value when the STEP PASS is used, which allows to control the short lines with certain length, resulting to stable rotation of the blade for higher cut quality.

Page Setting The Reference Angle Setting the Reference Angle The FC analyzes the cutting data, and controls the angle of the cutter blade tip if the change in the angles of the corner is large. Angle control is applied if there is larger angle change than the angle specified as reference angle. The time to cut is shortened by setting large value for the reference angle, since it will only apply blade control when there are angles with large angle change, hence reducing the time to make the blade control.

Setting range is from 0 to Page Press the [3] key X. Setting range for adjustment value is There are 8 different patterns of perforated lines set as 0 to 7, and the ratio of cut and uncut part differs in each tool is raised or the force is decreased for following length every 8 mm of the cut. Page Press the [1] key. T oll will be raised when set to "UP". Page Setting Initial Blade Direction Adjust Setting Initial Blade Direction Adjust The direction of blade is adjusted by making the blade touch the media right after the power is turned on, or after the pen condition is set.

This is called the initial blade direction adjust. Since this action makes the blade touch the media, the position to perform the initial blade direction adjust is set to where it does not affect the actual cuttings. Paper-weight is located under the tool carriage. Page Chapter 8: Settings Regarding Cutting Time Chapter 8: Settings Regarding Cutting Time Time necessary for cutting depends on the speed to move the tool and media, and effciency of the operation.

It is best to cut slowly and carefully to cut precisely, but the speed is required to enhance the operational effciency. Page Sorting The Cutting Data Sorting the Cutting Data Cutting efficiency is enhanced if the cutting data are sorted so it will combine the cutting to make the time needed to move the media and exchange the tool as less as possible. There are 2 types of sorting, the area sort and the tool sort. Area sorting: Data are sorted to optimize the movement of the media in the media feed direction.

Press the [2] key TOOL. Also, the media will be unrolled from the roll before cutting when rolled media is to be used. Digits of the setting can be changed by pressing the [FAST] key.

Set the feed speed to "SLOW" if the media shifts during the pre feed if the media is heavy or slippery. The cutting time in total becomes short if you set the TOOL UP SPEED to fast speed even though the speed of the tool when it is cutting lowered is set to slow speed for the hard to cut media hard or sticky.

It will be same speed as tool is lowered when AUTO is selected. The network LAN interface is a factory-installed option. It cannot be retrofitted. Please the Setup Manual to install the plotter driver.

It is not necessary when the plotter is connected using the USB cable. Supplement DHCP setting screen is displayed. Setting of the DHCP depends on the structure of the network equipment and the environment. For description, refer to the manual of the equipment, check with the network administrator.

Page Repeat steps 3 to 5 and select the 4 values to be set. It will return to the default screen. Page Press the [1] key RSC. Supplement RSC setting screen is displayed. Match the setting value of the application to be used.

It may not feed properly if the media is thin, so decrease the suction force. Match the setting to the used software, or set it to AUTO.

Supplement Automatic detection of the command may make mistake depending on the data. It will give error or malfunction when it has made mistake. In that case, set the command before using. All the tool condition that is received from the computer will be ignored, and only the setting and change of the tool condition from the control panel is accepted when MANUAL is selected.

The reply will be when set to , and when set to Page Chapter Maintenance Chapter Maintenance This chapter describes the operation and information regarding maintenance. Page Daily Maintenance 12 - Daily Maintenance Daily Maintenance During the course of daily plotter operation, be sure to observe the following precautions: a Never lubricate the mechanisms of the plotter. Never use thinner, benzene, alcohol, or similar solvents to clean the casings; Page Replacing Cutter Blade 12 - Replacing Cutter Blade Replace the cutter blade by referring to the structure diagram of Supplement the cutter pen.

See "Structure of Cutter Pen" P. Operation Turn the blade-length adjustment knob in the direction indicated by the arrow to retract the blade into the plunger. Be sure to move a push roller that is not used to the standby position so that it does not affect the cutting or plotting operation. Supplement Press the [2] key OFF to turn manyal the mirror. There are following 3 methods depending on the number of registration marks scanned. Media lock Raise Media sensor Position the media and the push rollers to correspond with the width of the media.

After the media is detected, the plotter is ready to receive data for cutting or plotting. Page Press the [1] key RSC. The cutting plotter can be configured to this condition using Graphtec software.

Page 54 Press the [1] key. The tool carriage will start moving, so there is a chance of injury. Change the color of the registration mark. Segment area compensation The 4-point axis alignment is performed for each segmented area. The tip of the blade is shaped as shown so the blade is facing the cutting direction even when it is cutting curved lines or corners.

Supplement Following message is displayed. Move Away the Tool Carriage is possible to move the tool carriage mm toward upper right. The values set from the control panel is maintained, and the values set from the software is erased when the power is turned off.

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