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Hi Heads; I'm using Signmate and when I bought it they set it up and I have been cutting for 3 years now without problems.But they set the page length up for 61 in.and I need it at least 120in.Can anyone help me adjust this measurment?Thank you in advance Randy.
[ May 09, 2002, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: Randy Campbell ]
-------------------- Randall Campbell Randy's Graphics, 420 Fairfield N. Hamilton Ontario Canada Posts: 2857 | From: Hamilton Ontario Canada | Registered: Jan 2002
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signmate is made by flexi for roland...some thing in each are the same....flexi you just change it!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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The way mine works (Sign Wizard), in the plot manager you click setup,then advanced, then select "page length" set it to 1000 inches. That should cover about anything.
But, if your plotter has it's own software control center, you will need to set the page length in it as well or it will overide the plot manager ones.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7404 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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You don't mention what type of plotter you are using,...Ceratain plotters only have a set page size,.. some more, some less, depending on the idividual manufacturer. On others it is endless on one axis. These page size settings are to tell your software the limitation of movement within the plotter itself so if larger files are needed to be cut or printed, the program can tell the plotter to cut them in panels if need be without any margins so the finished cut will be one tiled cut longer than the page size inside the plotter's programing.On some plotters this varies so that the tracking can be more accurate. I would check the manufacturer's specifications for your plotter before I changed this setting.There may also be an option to set in signmate for tileing cut files that you have to enable.I would think this is a standard feature for all cas(computer aided signmaking) software.
Last and most important,... I would make sure the page size for the plotter matches and or does not exceed the setting in my cas software the manufacturers specs for that individual plotter. If you make it larger than the set page size programmed within your plotter you are asking for problems,as the plotter will recieve files telling it to cut in area that is has no parameters to cut to, thus creating gaps in tiled cuts longer than the page size and eractic knife movements and errors.
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Randy the page length for my roland is 62 inches you don't say what model you are using but that is rolands specs for the pnc-1000a. anything I want to cut longer than that has to be tiled within 62 inch pages.I understand that the page length is longer for some of the newer models.Seems to me that the roland version of signmate was very similar to flexisign in that the first thing you did when opening a file is set the page size. Then you could import or merge your file and resize it. This should make it possible to cut the graphic in tiled sections.
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Tim you are right on its a roland PNC 1000 with a 62 inch setting.Wayne and OP. your also correct.Went in and changed setting last night and it seemed to work.I will let you know the end resolts when I have to cut that long.Thanks again.Love this BB.
-------------------- Randall Campbell Randy's Graphics, 420 Fairfield N. Hamilton Ontario Canada Posts: 2857 | From: Hamilton Ontario Canada | Registered: Jan 2002
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