Craft Robo

[John G]

I've never seen a foison plotter but surely there has to be an adjustment on the pinch rollers.

[accdave]

Maybe I should read the manual. Will let you know

[John G]

Are the pinch rollers on a foison not the same as the one in the attached pic

[R.Prints]

The rollers are different, they operate by a plastic cam lever and are spring loaded, no adjustment, presumably after a time the lever will wear and this may effect the pressure applied. The problem I have with the machine is just trying to understand the system, after using a CraftRobo it seems a very complicated operating system, that said time and evert will probaly sort everything out.

Ray

[John G]

what cutting software comes with a foison?

[R.Prints]

Hi John,
My plotter came with Artcut Software,it's probably just a case of putting the time in and sitting down to work it all out, but it's not working so far.

Ray

[John G]

I only use artcut as a cutting program, I don't design in it as its pretty basic. All my work is designed in coreldraw then exported to an eps - artcut imports this then I cut from there.

Cheers John

[mrs maggot]

the pinch rollers, will be fine, i normally lift them up, pull through at least a couple of inches of vinyl, shut the rollers, now roll a lot through, lift one of the pinch rollers and straighten the roll, then feed it back, sometimes it takes a couple of goes, but if the roll is not rolled straight - which can happen if you buy in 5 & 10mtrs - it works fine.

make sure you put the roll central to the cutter not off to one end, the cutters have a fan in the centre which pulls the vinyl towards it acting as another way of helping to hold the vinyl straight.

pop the cutters on the forum forsale bit first, im after another one

[John G]

I've never seen a plotter with a fan on it to keep the vinyl straight?

[mrs maggot]

the fan is underneath the casing, and it causes a downdraft - which helps - well thats what i was told when i bought it, and i can feel it when its on, so i have never doubted what they told me