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Thanks for the advise Kainth, I got a couple holders blue and red from cleancut on my first order of blades, I'll try out the new holder and see if that helps, the original blue graphtec seems good and not loose, I cleaned and lubed with a light oil too. So it's ok to adjust the offset, I thought Skeeter had said to leave it at zero? Or is that just a starting point to fine tune from there.

Well I played around some more with the new 45 clean cut blade and moved origin more to the left of the sheet as the cutting strip on machine is way more chewed up on the right side, this is just some Oracle 651 vinyl I've been testing on, I reduced pressure to 10 and set speed to 5, the three squares on left are tangential mode off and still getting a slight round corner on top right. The three squares on right are with the tangential mode on and seem to be cutting much more square now, so looks like there is more hope to dial it in, I was almost worried my friend had fudged up the machine somehow, lol. I just ordered new strips from uscutter and got some more blades from cleancut too.

Yeah, I didn't think it was relevant at first, my friend had gotten it and only ran it about a month before moving on from it, he was wanting to use it for his side tint gig where he cuts the tint by hand on the windows but I guess it was too much for him to learn. I don't even do vinyl but I do photo prints, this model was recommended for cutting out photo prints on paper with a software called Imageprint red and cut it out add on software that automatically nests photos and creates cut lines, reg marks and barcodes. It does very well with that as it cuts on the channel and not the strip in condition 3 and I do a perforated cut, but I wanted to learn more of how to cut other materials as I was having a hard time to cut stickers accurately to add a coupon code to my business cards, it's a holographic material and having a hard time to read the marks on it, I've come up with a solution I haven't tried yet though as I'll try mounting the 8x10" holographic sticker paper centered to a 13x19" white cardstock paper I can print the reg marks and barcode on, I figure I can do the layout in Illustrator. Pic is the sticker paper and what I'm looking to cut out on right, that one I just cut out by hand real quick that's why it's not smooth, but that's the idea. Thanks for your help Skeeter! I guess I'm going to hold off more testing on this until I get the new strip and blades.

Yes the cutting strip is pretty gouged up, I'll order some new ones and some new blades, I had gotten the machine 2nd hand and the first owner was less adept than me and didn't make it through the learning curve, lol.

Perhaps my blades aren't sharp, idk, I got some from cleancutblades.com, I looked at a new 45 and a new 60 in the loupe and they both seem to have a flat spot on tip, is that normal? The original 45 graphtec blade is even worse, maybe it's worn or broken tip. I'm at 20 pressure probably too high, I'm seeing should be around 10-12. These pics with a cleancut blade 45 and pic with three cut outs is tangential mode off and second pic with one is tangential mode 1.

Thanks MZ Skeeter, exactly the response I was hoping for a someone with experience that could tell right away by taking a look at the image, I have the graphtec depth tool for blade adjustment, looks like a loupe, should I set the blade on first line or halfway to it, or is that tool not very useful? About what pressure is common? As you said the blade is too far out and my pressure is only at a 9 to compensate for that, so I can see how the blade is too thick to be getting around corners at that depth, I have a 60 degree blade also would that be a better option than the 45 degree?

Hello all, I'm new to plotters and have a small print business, I'm having issues with the plotter cutting correctly, I've had some trouble getting it to cut accurately with print and cut functions using registration marks and barcode, I am able to use Illustrator and put the reg marks and barcode on print but it is not cutting true, especially the top right corners, I've done some test cuts from control panel on plotter and these are the results, the blade is cbo9u and standard settings on condition 1, I haven't used the plotter much, I've done a factory reset on machine last week to make sure it wasn't an issue with settings. Thanks in advance for any help!