Attaching The Origin Point Alignment Guides - GRAPHTEC FC4500 User Manual

Chapter 3 PREPARATIONS FOR CUTTING/PLOTTING

3.6 Attaching the origin point alignment guides

Two origin point alignment guides (strips of black tape) are provided as standard accessories with your plotter.
Affix these guides to the L-shaped origin point guidelines drawn by your plotter at the lower left of the writing panel.
Aligning the edges of the medium with these guides facilitates media loading.
Drawn line
Origin point
alignment guide
Origin point alignment guide
Do not use a cutter pen to draw the lines.
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The L-shape can only be used for the lower-left origin position. (Do not use it for the HP-GL center origin position.)
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If you will be using your plotter for a perf cut (cut thru) application, be sure to paste the adhesive mat to the writing
panel before starting your cutting operation. Please see Section 3.5, "Loading the Medium" for further details.
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The lines will be drawn at the standard lower-left origin position. If you wish to change the position. Please see
Section 3.10 "Setting the Cutting Origin" for further details.
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When affixing the guides to the FC4500-50 or FC4500-60 plotter, make sure that they do not touch the pen-sensing
rubber strip (the rectangular rubber strip near the origin point).
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This function does not guarantee the position alignment precision.
(1) Mount a plotting pen in the selected tool holder.
(2) Press the [TEST] key to display the following menu.
FORCE
TEST1
SAMPLE
SPEED
(3) Press the [NEXT] key repeatedly until the following screen is displayed.
FORCE
ORIGIN GUIDE
SPEED
(4) Press the [F1] key (ORIGIN GUIDE) to draw two 250-mm lines that form an L-shape at the standard lower-left origin
position. (If the lines are faint, press the [F1] key once again to draw the lines again.)
(5) Affix the origin point alignment guides along the drawn lines.
Affix an origin point alignment
guide along this drawn line
Pen-sensing rubber strip
(6) Press the [PAUSE] key to cancel PAUSE mode.
3-10
Drawn line
FC4510-60
OFFSET
TEST2
BLADE ADJ.
QUALITY
OFFSET
QUALITY
Drawn line
Origin point (0,0)
Affix an origin point alignment guide along this drawn line.
Origin point
alignment guide
Pen-sensing
rubber strip
Origin point alignment guide
Drawn line
Medium
Align the edges of the medium with
the origin point alignment guides