C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Preface Preface Chapter One Standard Parts 1.1 Standard Accessories with Cutter…………………………………………………………5 1.1.1 Accessories list…………………………………………………………………………….5 1.1.2 C48 Sketch for Vertical Stands Installation……………………………………………..6 1.2 Optional Accessories………………………………………………………………………..6 1.2.1 Software…………………………………………………………………………………...6 1.2.2 Blade holder and the knife……………………………………………………………….7 1.2.3 C24 Stand Installation Sketch……………………………………………………………7 Chapter Two Safety Precaution 2.1 Safety Precaution……………………………………………………………………………8 Chapter 3 Features...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4 Menu Operation Description……………………………………………………………...23 6.4.1 Power on Display………………………………………………………………………...23 6.4.2 Online/Offline Operation………………………………………………………………..23 6.4.3 Speed and Knife Force Setting…………………………………………….……………24 6.4.4 Knife drop/raise Test…………………………………………………………………….25 6.4.5 Test Rectangle Cutting Operation………………………………………………………25 6.4.6 Pause Button Operation…………………………………………………………………26 6.4.7 Online-change Speed and Knife Force Operation……………………………………..27 6.4.8 Repeat Function………………………………………………………………………….28 6.4.9 Port Setting……………………………………………………………………………….28 6.4.10 X, Y Scale Setting……………………………………………………………………….29...
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In order to use the cutter correctly and safely, please read above relative contents, and leave the manual at where you can catch conveniently. Prior operating the FOISON cutter, please thoroughly read the manual, which will help you acquire performance of the machine and make best of its functions, please keep the manual well for future reference.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter One Standard Parts The following cutter standard accessories with the cutter can be available in a packing box. If you find any damaged, please contact with the local distributor or our company. The other following optional accessories should be ordered optionally. 1.1 Standard Accessories with Cutter Number Item...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 1.1.2 C48 Sketch for Vertical Stands Installation Only C48 is equipped with stand, the stands is optional for C24 1.2 Optional Accessories 1.2.1 Software Number Item Quality Icon FOISON FLEXI STARTER Artcut Software SignBlazer Signcut-X2 PCSIGN Letter...
1.2.2 Blade holder and the knife(Please see 5.3.1 of specific usage) ROLAND blade holder: ; ROLAND knife: ; FOISON blade holder: ; FOISON 60ºknife 联机状态 FOISON 45ºknife ( The picture is for reference, the color and dimension subject to products. ) 1.2.3 C24Stand Installation Sketch...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Two Safety Precaution The following icons are used in the manual; aims to make sure the user operate the cutter properly to avoid damaged the cutter. Please comply with the explanation of the icon. 2.1 Safety Precaution Definition of Warning Symbols:...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Caution Do not leak any liquid or drop metal into the machine, such things may result in fire. Do not touch the knife top with your finger to prevent injury or perspiration of knife head. Do not damage or random replace the supplied power cable.
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Warning Do not use the power source not meeting rating voltage, otherwise fire or electric shock may be resulted in. If the machine gives out smoke or unpleasing smell, or noise sounds please do not use it .in such cases, continuing using it may result in fire or electric shock.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Four Parts Name and Function 4.1 Front View(C-24) Blade Base Control Panel Right Cabinet Left cabinet Transmission Shaft Carriage Paperweight Wheel Power Switch Power Interface USB Interface Serial Interface...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 4.2 Control Panel 1、 LCD(LCD)Display 2、 Paper Feeding Button: it is X direction button under offline; it is value“-”under parameter menu. 3、 Original Setting Button: Press such button to fix the coordinate point under offline. Press more than 2 seconds under “Welcome” interface, the machine will reinitialize, all data in buffer memory will be cleared.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Five Cutter Installation 5.1 Installation and Connection 5.1.1 Cutting Environment Place the cutter in adequate space in case to replace some parts, output the media and make sure ventilation. The place for installing the cutter shown as below Vinyl Cutter Don’t install your cutter in the following place - The place where is direct sunlight...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 5.1.3 USB Driver Installation For USB connection, you need to install the driver equipped with the cutter. Firstly, put the disk to the driver, after the driver run by itself, click the USB DRIVER installation, or install “USB Drive.exe”...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 5.2.2 Insert the media into the space between paperweight wheel and main shaft, and pull out the media to appropriate length from the front of the host. 5.2.3 Move the paperweight wheel to the yellow identified area, then adjust position of the media, a distance of about 1-10CM is set between paperweight wheel and media to ensure good running of media...
Angle Application 45° C12/24/30/48 60° C12/24/30/48 45º 60º Compare with blade of Foison Degree Using scope Advantage Disadvantage More attrite than 45 degree the quality of cutting small world and high big word over 20mm º and Can cut thick and hard...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Knife tool Setscrew 5.3.4 Trial run (adjusting knife press and tool) Quality of knife immediately relate to cutting precision and life of machine. To better your work, please use the standard knives we confirm, but not those with poor quality. 5.3.4.1 Press “Online”...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Six General Settings and Operation 6.1 Work Status Descriptions 6.1.1 Online/Offline When the cutter is switched on, it will reset and set to online status. Press “Online” to switch Online/Offline status. When the cutter transmits data to PC, the cutter must be in online status.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.1.3 Original Point Setting When the carriage needs to move to the original point, press “ ”, X and Y value will set to “0”. Then the new original point is set. The cutter will begin working at the new original point.
Yp=36650) . If the customer changed this incaution and want to go back to the default parameter , just reset the deafult parameter as following : Turn on the machine, LCD will show “Foison Welcome Ver 5.01L”, press (origin setting button) two seconds, then it will appear “RESET”, at that time, the machine is resetting default parameter.
Function Description Menu Menu Switch Press once and enter into Foison status If the actual cutting scale is smaller than the image size Increase Yp Scale from Y position, press this button will increase the size. If the actual cutting scale is larger than the image size...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4 Menu Operation Description 6.4.1 Power on Display Ver 5.01L : The cutter program version is 5.01L The default value: Speed V=400mm, Knife Force f=30 6.4.2 Online/Offline Operation When the cutter switch on the first time, it will initialize and then the cutter will be in Online status.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.3 Speed and Knife Force Set In the “Foison” situation Click the key to increase the speed , Click the key to decrease the speed ; Click the key to increase the pressure , Click the...
Press Test, the cutter will begin test. The Test button is effective only when the cutter is Offline. When the cutter is working, the LCD will display Cutting. After it finishes working, the cuter will turn back to online status, i.e.: display Foison. Shown as followings:...
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.7 Online-change Speed and Knife Force Operation During the operation, we can adjust the speed and knife force when the cuter is working. The instructions show as following. Hints: The adjusted speed and knife force will be realized when the carriage finish cutting one point to another.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.8 Repeat Function Each time after finish working, switch the cutter into offline status and press Repeat. The cutter will repeat the job done last time. Hints: The main board load in flash memory, so it can not repeat the last job after the cutter switch on again.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.10 X, Y Scale Setting Press Menu once again and enter into Set Per setting. Xp and Yp refer to cutting scale. The purpose is to set the scale from PC and output file into 1:1 (If there’s any error between the actual output and the software setting, please adjust Xp and Yp.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.11 Laser contour cut setting In Online mode, press “ ONLINE” to set machine in OFFLINE mode, then press “Menu” , it will now display LED LASER , then click “ ”, the laser will activate and show the RED LED light.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Seven Print Output When all parameters are well set, switch the cutter into online status. Install the necessary software. (C series cutter is compatible with standard HPGL, DMPL code. So it is compatible with many software, if you need to obtain the detailed list, please contact to our Technical Department.) In the software setting, please note that both baud rate and port setting shall be identical with the cutter.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Eight Troubleshooting 8.1 Question: Will the character below 1CM be deformed? Answer: when graving small characters, please set sharp-angle compensation in the software, for example, in ArtCut plotting software: 1、Click “Plotting Output” once, a plotting output will pop up. 2、Click “Set”...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 8.5 Question: why does the machine feel tingle? Answer: the machine might be improperly grounded, make sure central line of the power source grounded 8.6 Question: why does the job feel not smooth with sharp-angle raised when plotting? Answer: 1.
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9.10 Question: how do we maintain the cutter? Answer: Foison series cutter all employ upscale oil bearing from Japan, no oil is needed even it works for a long time. After operation everyday, clean the dust with soft brush. The glue remaining in engine base can be cleaned with alcohol.
C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Nine Appendix Appendix 1 Installation USB driver in WINDOWS Method I: Do not connect cutter with computer, insert the CD (which shipping with cutter) into the CD-ROM, Click the USB Driver, show as follow, will pop out following dialog box After a few seconds, the dialog box disappear, and complete install driver.
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL computer with USB cable, will prompt find new hardware on the lower right corner of the screen, show as follow dialog box Please select the second one “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)”: Click ‘Next’, find CD-ROM drive letter, and find out in USB Driver folder (for example: G: / USB Driver /) Click ‘Next’, show as follow...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Click install, pop out following dialog box Click ‘Finish’ After a few seconds, will pop out a dialog box again, do the install steps as above.
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Please select the second one “Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)”: Click ‘Next’, find CD-ROM drive letter, and find out in USB Driver folder (for example: G: / USB Driver /), click Next, show as follow Click install, will pop out follow dialog box...
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Until now, install USB driver successful.
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Select My Computer – (click the right button) – Properties – Hardware – Device Manager, then you will see the followings: In the above dialogue , show as the red square , USB SERIAL PORT (COM3) is the USB port parameter .
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C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 2. Click Advanced and enter port selection, shown as followings, then select COM4, click OK. Now COM1 has changed to COM4 successfully, but in Device Manager interface you do not see COM1 change to COM4. At this moment you only need to close Device Manager, then reopen it again.
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