I'm having some trouble with my brand new Copam CP 2500 with SCALP3.044. I'm using it to cut heat transfer vinyl. Specifically I have CadCut Thermo film from Stahls, and I got their specs (which are in pdf form here). I also called one of their customer service agents and I set up according to their suggestions. But when I cut with it it seems like there are small flaws in the cuts.There's a bunch of small nicks or extra marks at the end of each letter from my cuts.
I'm using a brand new 60° blade cutting with 140 g force and an offset of .5 mm and I've tried speeds of 50, 40 and 30cm/s. The cuts are going through the vinyl with no marks on the carrier, and it weeds out pretty well, it's just there's little tails and trails and nicks in every letter.
I took pictures of cuts to show what it looks like and I'm attaching it to this message. Is there something I should be doing differently? I set up the lettering in Illustrator CS3, changed fonts to outlines, saved as an .svg and imported to SCALP3.
Everything about the hardware is new and unused and the vinyl is fresh from the supplier.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!