Vinyl Cutter Blade Depth

Blade holder setup guide this guide is designed to assist with the installation calibration and trouble shooting of your roland compatible vinyl cutter blade and blade holder.

Vinyl cutter blade depth.

Setting the blade depth. Successful cutting for letters on a 4 decal is best done under speeds of 120. If the cut circle on the vinyl can be pulled up the blade is extended. Stahls tv presenter josh ellsworth explains t.

Standard cutting force or pressure press should be set to 100g on the cutter for most vinyl materials. Blade angle and offset blade depth and blade pressure speed. The blade tip depth should extend past the plunger tip the same distance that is equal to the thickness of the vinyl. The tricky news is that each piece of vinyl blade and machine can cut a little differently.

What i didn t show is after we put the carrier. Personally after paying 299 for this machine i don t feel i should have to manipulate cut settings to get a decent cut. The blade pressure setting is related to using the right blade depth when setting up the blade. Cut settings can be easiest and trickiest of getting great cut.

Changing the blade in our pcut 630 was the ideal chance to make this vid showing how we set the blade depth. Therefore to verify the blade depth hold the tool in your hand draw a circle on the vinyl. I m hoping that won t be the case when i get the replacement autoblade and give it a try. Understanding different blade types and what they re used for is important when cutting on your vinyl cutter.

You can access the cut settings by clicking on the send tab in silhouette studio. Remember that the blade should only stick out of the blade holder far enough that it can cut through the material you re cutting but it should not be out far enough that it could cut through the backing as well. You need to make sure you text cut every time you change vinyl to avoid wasting materials. Blade depth is how far the blade sticks out of the end of the blade holder and is a major factor in how well the machine cuts and how easy or difficult it will be to weed the material.

With the introduction of the new avery dennison cut vinyl film portfolio featuring hp750 high performance and sc950 supercast films i thought this would be a good time for a refresher on plotter blade selection and set up. The key items in the plotter setup include.