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Problems with small lettering on my Graphtec Craft Robo Pro (CE-5000-40-crp)

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Homer:
don't buy a us cutter, what you have is fine. . FDC sucks, it's avery, FDC is just a converter I had a huge fall out with FDC, sent back 5k worth of material to them because of their crap products. We had about 50 54" rolls of poster paper cut down for a huge job we ran, they heat fused the ends of the rolls together while slitting it -we tore almost every roll. . .then got a full refund haha. . .douches. . . try 3M, or oracle.

Gilligan:
I just need something UBER cheap... it's only on the glass for a day or two and then after we sandblast the glass we pull off the vinyl.


Just tried the 60 degree blade... it's still peeling up... we will lower the force some more... set it at 10.

Gilligan:
Still having problems.

I lowered the blade hoping it may be able to avoid getting caught up in the holder but I don't think that is working... 8 isn't a clean cut and 9 still pulls up on it.

Prosperi-Tees:
60 degree blade, slow down the cut and make sure the blade is not sticking out of the holder very much at all. As far as US Cutter? My suggestion at the very least would be the GCC Expert nothing less thank that. I have been thru 2 US Cutter machines and wont go back.

Gilligan:
I just got off the phone with specialty-graphics where I bought the cutter... for 1200 bucks they can give me a little services.

They said that a lot of people assume 60 degree is needed for intricate work but they think we should stick with 45.  They suggested that the blade was dull (same as you Homer)... so I dug up a new 45 and put it in there... I lowered the cut depth from what the old 45 was (just like you said Homer, "one at a time" LOL) and now it is working better... we are cutting at less force (was 18 now 10)... so maybe the force was too much and causing the blade to dull?!

I really hate cutters.  This one is supposed to have the same components as it's bigger brother just in a "desktop" size... so I should have a VERY good cutter.  But the firmware is buggy and documentation is weak to say the least.  There are so many easy fixes that should be made software and documentation wise that would practically eliminate the steep learning curve on these things.

We have fought this thing every step of the way... be it Optical registration cad cutting transfers, wrecking vinyl, ruining cutting strips (I guess technically that is my fault but without a good understanding of what to set and why you are bound to mess things up) and then when we got it, it was set in the machine to auto rotate and set to the wrong blade type... that gave us so many headaches!  Graphtec tech support figured out the in machine auto rotate thing and digging around on TSF led me to see that the wrong "tool" was set in the machine.

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