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PCut Laserpoint...how to make a cross-cut

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Hello all,

I just received my PCut Laserpoint and already did test and sample cuts. I cannot figure out how to do a cross-cut to release the vinyl. Now, I am simply cutting it with sissors, but I have seen other machines that make a cross-cut so the vinyl is cut straight and clean. I have a friend with a much more expensive machine, and the functions are so much easier. Thanks for the help! ;)

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After just reading the user manual for your machine,  I do not see where it has the feature...Not all vinyl cutters do..

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This function is not on these PCUT based machines.

As you already found out you have to cut by hand.

Paco

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Thanks for the info. I'm sad to hear that...it's so easy to just push the cross-cut button. Hopefully this will be my starter machine! Thanks for the tip about the guideline.

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Guest round2racing

I advance the vinyl down the front and use the groove at the bottom of the ridges.

My x-acto knife sits in that groove and it makes a perfectly straight cut across the vinyl.

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... I have a friend with a much more expensive machine, and the functions are so much easier. Thanks for the help! :lol:

Exactly, more expensive. I, too, would love that feature but understand that I didn't buy an expensive machine. Saving money was worth more to me than having the cutter cut the vinyl for me  :lol:

I free hand cut it with a scissors. I try to cut it as straight as possible, but it isn't worth stressing myself out.

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I just run the vinyl to the bottom edge of the cutter and use my elec sissors against the cutter to keep a perfect line, Works everytime :lol:

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The edge of my vinyl always gets caught in that groove on the front edge when it's feeding back and forth, but I think that's actually what it's for - a blade guide for manual cross-cutting.  Folks above that are using it for that - I think that's what the manf intended but just forgot to tell us.  :thumbsup:

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Get one of these and hang it on your stand:  http://signsplusbanners.com/itemdetail.php?sku=BK353&=&p=Cutting+%26+Trimming+Tools&c=Scissors+%26+Shears&s=Rolling+Scisors

"The edge of my vinyl always gets caught in that groove on the front edge when it's feeding back and forth"

Put a piece of packing tape over it.  This is one of the first things I did when I got my machine set up, the vinyl get caught is annoying as all hell.

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