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I've just downloaded a manual for our plotter (camm1) and in it, it says the blade should stick out about 4mm below the blade holder. It even shows you a picture of it poking out that far. What do others do? The salesman who sold the camm to us said to only have it the blade out a hair's breadth from the holder- just enough so you could just feel it, and it would cut through the vinyl but not the backing, he said. I've always done it like that, with very few problems, but now I see the Roland reccommendation being so different, I wonder how far others poke theirs out (plotter blades that is ?
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I use a Roland 45 degree blade in my Mutoh SC650, and it just barely protrudes below the housing. I wonder if the suggested setting isn't supposed to be 4mil, not 4 mm.
Just a thought.
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Thanks Brian, I'll try & get a pic from the page here: & see if it works. It's 4mm and looks like it in the picture!
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Ian, I have a Camm1 1410. I keep my blade out about 4mm, but adjust the cut pressure so it doesn't cut the backing paper. I usually keep the pressure around 110 with a new blade. I had my machine serviced a couple weeks ago and it came back with the blade protruding about 2mm. It worked okay, but as the blade dulled it began to skip and not completly cut some letters.
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Ian...Older Camm 1's didn't have an adjustment to set how far the blade extended. You just adjusted the pressure like Donald says. My current Camm 1 does have the extension adjustment and I leave mine sticking out about 1 mm, and still use the pressure ajustment to allow for 2 mil, 3 mil, or reflective material.
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Thanks. Interesting variations! This Camm1 (Pnc1000a- dinasaur) has a pressure slider bar- I've always left it in the dead centre. Don't know what weight/force that translates to. The blade holder is adjustable, by screwing the base cap up. Funny that there are such contrasts.
Second question- how much offset for the blade is 'default' ? I can't find a figure anywhere & occasionally find circles not joining up, so I alter it from .02 to.04mm or in between till is doesn't bother me. Setting 'default' does nothing. (A manual doesn't exist from Roland, online, the above pic was from a similar one model.) Also interesting is that most drivers for the different camm1 models are interchangeable, according to what I've researched... Thanks for the responses.
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