Adjusting The Cutting-In Amount; Adjusting For When Cutting The Printed Surface - Roland LEC-300A User Manual

5-6 Making Various Adjustments for Cutting

Adjusting the Cutting-in Amount

Min. 0 mm
Rough Estimate for the Amount of Blade Extension
Use the following dimension as a rough estimate for setting the amount of blade extension.
Amount of blade
extension
Note that making the amount of blade extension too small may cause the end of the
cap for the blade holder to touch and damage the printed surface. It's important to
be especially careful about this when you're using media that has poor ink-adhesion
properties.

Adjusting for When Cutting the Printed Surface

Procedure
1.
Decide on the starting position for cutting-test printing.

Load the media.
 P. 35, "Loading Media," p. 98, "How to Load Sheet Media"
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Max. 2.5 mm
Thickness of the
= +
material portion
Carrier-paper portion
When you want to perform accurate and fine
adjustment of the cutting-in amount, such as
when cutting media with thin carrier paper, you
can obtain good results by adjusting the tip of the
Amount
blade. Turn the cap portion of the blade holder
of blade
to adjust the amount of blade extension. Each
extension
indicator tick corresponds to 0.1 millimeters, and
adjustment for 0.5 millimeters can be made by
rotating the cap one full turn.
Thickness of the
carrier paper
2
Material portion
Blade
Holder
Half of the carrier paper
Amount of blade extension
is approximately equal to
the cutting-in amount.