Sensor Offset & The Auto Find Feature; Auto Find - Setting The Sensor Offset To The Blade - Intec ColorCut SC5000 Series User Manual

9.5 Sensor Offset & the Auto Find feature
Sensor Offset is critical for accurate cutting. It tells the ColorCut
Pro software the difference in position between the actual BLADE on
the cutter and the Vision sensor that reads the PageMARK positions.
This only needs to be set once and once set it does not change but it
is very important that this is set prior to cutting any jobs.
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The Sensor Offset can be automatically set by using the Auto Find feature
in the next section) or it can manually entered or adjusted by editing
Offset X box (looking from the control panel - left to right across the bed) or the
Sensor Offset Y box (Back to front).
9.5.1 Auto Find - Setting the Sensor Offset to the
The Intec ColorCut Flatbed cutter includes a Vision3 ARMS system (Automatic
Registration Mark Sensor). The Vison3 ARMS sensor uses an high quality CCD
camera to automatically detect Registration Marks (PageMARKs), enabling accurate
cutting using ColorCut Pro. Being able to automatically detect the PageMARKs
enables ColorCut Pro's sophisticated algorithms to compensate for any scale or skew
errors during printing or any positional errors, adapting the cutting lines accordingly.
In addition to reading PageMARKs the Vision3 camera can read job QR codes and
provide live video echo to show progress during cutting.
The Vision 3 ARMS sensor is mounted next to the cutting blade holder and the
distance between the centre of the blade, and the centre of the Vison3 camera sensor
(known as the sensor offset) must be compensated for to ensure accurate cutting.
Before you use the Intec ColorCut Pro software for the first time you will need to
calibrate the Sensor Offset so your software knows how to adjust the difference
between the cutting blade and the actual optical sensor.
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