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For what its worth, in cutting master changing the step size did not effect the overall size of the cut. But I tried another software and it did, 1016 gave me an accurate cut size

Fixed! For anyone that finds this later. I had to loosen the screws that hold the cutter to the guide at the top push the whole carriage up and retighten. Thanks for all your help

OK! I have figured out the issue, not a fix yet but... I did the test you mentioned @MZ SKEETER 1016 is correct for my cutter, thank you for helping me understand that and my cutter better. The problem is the entire carriage has a slight amount of give, when I secured it with my thumb lightly while printing very slowly, the problem went away. I took off the carriage cover and the upper cover and made sure all the screws are tight. They are. the give seems to originate at the bottom where the guide rollers touch the rail, nothing seems loose though and I'm a bit perplexed again. Im going to do more research on this but I feel a little less insane now. Any tips on how to secure the carriage more would be helpful if anyone has it. Thanks!

aha sorry I misunderstood that, ill try it out

Ok still having the same problem but it is slightly improved.I changed to a fresh 60 blade, and saw an old post from MZ with proper blade depth. I changed the Step pass to 1016 and that did make the top smooth but it still juts in slightly in the top left quarter. here are pictures of my settings I tried step path at 256 and 1016 and 1016 was definitely smoother but still showed the issue

Thanks for all the help, I'm going to try this stuff this weekend and report back.

hhmmmm no I did not, honestly I haven't seen anything about that. I did the ARMS test and that was accurate. Do you have a link with any information how to do that?

ive been running tests 5cm to 30cm. I can't even tell a difference in speed. There is plenty of slack smallish sheets of vinyl just laying there.

Im in NY, USA. Blade depth is about half a credit card depth, I did the vinyl cut test I saw described here at one point where I'm just using the blade in the holder and it seemed pretty good, cut through lamination and vinyl without cutting the backing paper. Not using a cutting mat, adhesive vinyl on backing paper. I did try a 60 degree blade but it was old and worn. I bought a new one and ill try that next.

Hi, Im new here and fairly new to vinyl cutting. My ce6000 is working well except for the fact the almost always on the upper left hand side of a cut, it cuts the graphic slightly short. Cutting printed laminated vinyl. Especially noticeable for round graphics. I am doing quality 1, cutting force of 14. I am confident the blade is set correctly and I have tried fresh blades. 45 degree blade. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is going on here. Using the most recent version cutting master plugin in illustrator on a Mac. Here is a picture of what is happening it may be hard to see but above the crown you see the cut move up a little bit. Its small but noticeable as I am placing these labels in a pre drilled area that is perfectly round. THANKS!