MrJoel

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  1. No weed lines this time... even if I do the word "TEST" in 1" letters there really is no speed difference unless I drop down to 100
  2. Ok, I'm trying to do a bunch of these skulls for my kiddos birthday party to put on some various things but the issues is showing up in other places too...so I grabbed a few pics. These are 1" wide overall and the eye socket keeps having a tag on the one on the right...not in all of them but enough to drive me crazier. The 45° blade wasnt liking the combo of reflective and small decal so I purchased a few more 60° blades that arrived today. Same issue as before. .25mm offset (same as the 45) so I left it at the .31mm that it cuts well with using the 45. Overcut has been adjusted from 1.02mm to .95 and 1.07...not really any changes to note...same tags in the same spot. Do you guys have a test image that you use to set offset and if so can you leave it on here for me?
  3. It changes fine during the test cut setting on the cutter
  4. Yes I did and it's hooked up and running. It was still leaving tags until I upgraded SCAL though. And that was reinstalled twice before the upgrade.
  5. Well...everything is good on the cutting side now. Maybe it was just SCAL 3 pro??? Now about the cutting speed
  6. Well...everything is good on the cutting side now. Maybe it was just SCAL 3 pro??? Now about the cutting speed
  7. Sorry, didn't get a chance to try it before heading out of state for another week. I'll let you know once I get home thursdayhome Thursday
  8. good grief! I got them cutting very good...until I put a weeding box into the picture...then quite a bit of the detail is lost. 10 skulls at 2.5" with weeding box is ok. same 10 skulls at 1" with weeding box, its looks like my 7 year old drew it...blind folded...behind his back...with his toes! I can cut 10 without the box just fine. weird
  9. Sorry, I'm on vacation with very limited internet. I'll check it out when I get back. Thanks man
  10. I'm still running my part time stuff out of the garage at home...it's getting hot (ok, it has been really hot). What temp does the vinyl go wonky when cutting for you seasoned vets out there?
  11. Just had support answer my question saying that the offset should be set to between .35 and .39mm to deal with the "flag" that the pictures show. However, they didn't address the inconsistency in the flags. I didn't get a chance to get the other eye mirrored last night as some medical issues came up with our munchkin.
  12. I love it when people think outside the box! I'm gonna give it a try!
  13. I'm really thinking that after the boys school gets paid for, I'm upgrading
  14. One other thing to note is that the first cut on each decal is the top of that right side eye... is there a way to designate a start spot on each decal?
  15. I checked the nodes and they are spot on! I switched to another 45° blade...no issues??? Really? I'm so confused. So I switched for another 60° (3rd different 60 I've tried...same thing)
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    Optimal temperature range for cutting vinyl?

    I had been keeping it outside but it's too freakin hot now. All I do is reflective and I've been noticing "chatter marks" where the blade is sticking a bit as it tries to cut through. Much like the way hand cutting vinyl on wrapped cars can tend to get alligatored when it's hot (and I did 3 wraps today with 3 companies vinyl...it got very weird when the shop temp hit 95). I guess I'll try to keep it inside until I'm ready to cut it...I'm weeding inside anyway
  17. Got the keyspan adapter, installed the drivers, went to cut and the laserpoint II isn't seen by SCAL pro 3...rebooted...same thing. Help
  18. Got, it was a setting in the drop down menu (the one under the USB selection drop down) where I had to select the keyspan adapter. It cut good but I still don't understand why the plotter's test cut speed is different than the speed when cutting a file...noticeably much different! I run at 500 and the plotter flys on the test cut...when I cut a file it runs at what seems like between 100-200 at test cut speed
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    Hello everyone/ Car material

    I am a fleet graphics installer who does everything from full wraps to door decals. Bubble free is all in the vinyl, or is it? Squeegee selection is a huge factor...a hard squeegee over a premasked sign vinyl with a dry application can look amazing and the vinyl will cost 25% of what a wrap vinyl will cost. Knifeless tape means you lay the design out with the tape and then apply a larger selection of vinyl rather than cutting your stripes, weeding and then using application tape. if it's my car, I'm probably going sign vinyl...my wife's ride...it's getting a premium wrap vinyl (I treat her good)
  20. This is driving me nuts today! SCAL pro 3 keeps crashing, when it send to the LP2 sometimes it will cut right (nothing extravogant just twelve 3"x5" crosses) yet on different cut jobs with same items it will do 3 of the 5 rows fine but then slightly jack up the others by like not completing an entire side of the cross or the plotter will just freeze while SCAL says everything went over ok. then to top it all off, I'm running at an indicated speed of 500. I do a test cut from the plotter's control panel and it zips through it lickety split... I cut a design and it is the equivalent of doing a test run at 100... It sounds like a communication issue between SCAL, the com port, and the plotter but how do i fix it? I am running reflective here and it's getting costly
  21. Thanks guys for the suggestions. Last weekend I set the stock 60° blade back to .25mm offset and it ran fine,???? Ran 600 decals in reflective and the only issue I had was forgetting to pull out some vinyl from the roll. It didn't like pulling that for some reason and jacked up a few decals before I noticed... no biggie there