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AFINIA LABEL Mini DLF Series User Manual

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Mini DLF Series
USER MANUAL
DLF-140S / DLF-220S
Tabletop Label Finishing Systems
v 3.0
REV. 3.0

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  • Page 1 Mini DLF Series USER MANUAL DLF-140S / DLF-220S Tabletop Label Finishing Systems v 3.0 REV. 3.0...
  • Page 3 IMPORTANT: Please keep the original packaging in case you need to return the material. If we receive the system in non-original packaging, the warranty will be void. IMPORTANT: The latest version of the DLF Series software is available on our websites, afinialabel.com or afinialabel.co.uk...
  • Page 4 SAFETY The machine has to be installed in the specif place where only the autorised and trained technician can have the access. ATTENTION! Sharp cutter. Install the machine on a stable and robust table. Ground connection mandatory, so please connect the machine to a power outlet with ground connection.
  • Page 5 I N D E X How to install the cutting plotter ..............page 3 Software activation ..................page 5 System requirements ..................page 5 How to load and operate with the lamination module ........page 6 How to adjust the clutch ................page 8 How to load the laminated media into the plotter .........page 8 How to run the cut test .................page 9...

  • Page 6: How To Install The Cutting Plotter

    HOW TO INSTALL THE CUTTING PLOTTER 1. Click on “Setup DLF-Software...” and follow the step by step instructions to complete the installation. Please DO NOT connect the Afinia USB to your pc before the installation is complete 2. Click NEXT 3.
  • Page 7 9. Click OK 8. Click FINISH 10. Click NEXT (Remove the Afinia USB 11. Click NEXT from your pc, and turn off the Afinia) 13. Wait until the sign “Update for 12. Choose the right model name of your the Graphtec CE7000-40 driver was Graphtec (CE7000-40).

  • Page 8: Software Activation

    Plug in the USB camera and the USB dongle, they will auto-install. If your computer already has a camera installed, we recommend disabling it. If you do not, your pc will ignore the camera on the plotter. CM Software will generate a folder in the Windows start menu. SOFTWARE ACTIVATION To activate the software you must have these things: - The unit’s key, which can be found attached to the plotter and the software manual.
  • Page 9 HOW TO LOAD AND OPERATE THE LAMINATION MODULE MEDIA TENSION CONTROL Each core holder ( ) is managed by its own ON THE LAMINATING & UNWINDING MODULE controller designed to set the required media tension, keeping that tension automatically constant even the roll diameter variation during the job. A) Display B) ON/OFF : activate/deactivate the tension control + : increase the media tension...
  • Page 10 Hold the laminating film with both hands, pull it underneath the guide roller, center it and adhere the laminating film to the web. For any doubt, please refer to the lamination and media path drawing. Close the nip roller once the media has been loaded.
  • Page 11 WHEN TO ADJUST THE CLUTCH It is important to keep the media and laminating fi lm under tension using the clutch adjustments. If the tension is too tight, the roller system may be damaged; if the tension is too loose, the media will not be laminated properly. HOW TO LOAD THE LAMINATED MEDIA INTO THE PLOTTER Pull the laminated media under the tension arm, then pass it between the aluminium rollers.
  • Page 12 HOW TO RUN THE CUT TEST AND START A JOB >> How to run the black-mark mode User Interface at page 14 might be helpful. 1. Open Afinia Cutting Manager. 2. Press “OPEN PDF” or “OPEN LAST JOB” to load the Cut File. 3.

  • Page 13: How To Load The Matrix Remover Core Holder

    >> How to run the blank mode 1. Press “OPEN PDF” or “OPEN LAST JOB” to load the cut file. 2. Set the copy mode ON, and set 2 as number of copies. 3. Click “START”. 4. Check the horizontal position and the gap between the cuts. 5.
  • Page 14 HOW TO LOAD THE REWINDER CORE HOLDER AND SET THE SLITTER MODULE 1. Load empty cardboard core(s) and tighten the core holder, then place the motorized core holder in position. Tighten the core holder. Cardboard core(s) should not be wider than the width of the finished roll. 2.
  • Page 15 3. Turn ON the Matrix Remover module to rewind and start to slit the media, then turn OFF 4. Cut the labels when the first “good” labels are visible. 5. Make sure the tension on all rolls is even, and attach each label to the core using a waste label or tape.
  • Page 16 METAL GUIDES ALIGNMENT Media guides should be adjusted in order to prevent the web from shifting position. HOW TO CUT OUT THE EXTERNAL TRIMS Position the blade holders according the job requirements. IMPORTANT: the external trims too thin may break, we recommend at least 4mm wide.
  • Page 17 Afinia cutting manager (Afinia CM) USER INTERFACE...

  • Page 18: Cutting Direction

    1. Cutting file preview. 2. Alignment adjustement controls. cutting direction move down move up move to the left move to the right the cutting file the cutting file the cutting file the cutting file 3. Status bar. 4. Selects the cutting file. 5.

  • Page 19: Advanced Options

    ADVANCED OPTIONS 24. Settings 25. Settings for the industry 4.0 26. List of cut logs 27. Set interface’s language 28. Restore of the plotter’s settings 29. Additional information Settings (24) 1. When you launch a cut with new offsets, they will be added to the deltas. The deltas store the saved offsets.
  • Page 20 4. Approximation of the cut curves. 5. . If cut sorting is enabled, the software will automatically select the order of the cut of all the shapes on the file. Otherwise, the cut will follow the .pdf layers order. 6. When you print your rolls, sometimes you may have distortion on your output. In that case, even with a correct set of the offsets, the cut may not match your print.
  • Page 21 Y axis cutting TTING CUTTING direction ECTION DIRECTION STEP 1 VERIFY THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CUT WITH THE PRINT STEP 2 AT THE POINT INDICATED, ADJUST OFFSET TO ALIGN THE CUT WITH THE PRINT STEP 3 INCREASE OR DECREASE THE “COMPRESSION” PARAMETER (Y) 7.
  • Page 22 8. Check area parameters lets you change the position of the Black-Mark’s checking area, which is the blue square shown in the camera preview while the blank mode is disabled. 9. In case your print has distorted the output of your blackmark, you can change the tolerances to let the cam recognize it.
  • Page 23 14. This button allows you to set the current values in your interface as the new preset for any time you will load a new file. When you click it one window will appear. Through it you can choose to update the main interface preset, the settings preset or both of them 15.

  • Page 24: How To Update Software

    HOW TO UPDATE SOFTWARE 1. Go to Panel control. 2. Unistall Afinia Cutting Manager. 3. Download from the website the new Cutting Manager release and run the installation. DEVICE SELECTOR Whenever you plug two units (YOU CANNOT USE MORE AT THE SAME TIME) to the pc, the device selector window will show up, and it will allow you to select which machine run.

  • Page 25: Communication Specifications

    INDUSTRY 4.0 COMMUNICATION SPECIFICATIONS The user application must communicate with the Afinia server by using tcp/ip. By default the server ip is the same of the network plugged to the ethernet port, and the server port is the 3333. You can’t send to the server more than 65MB of data. The (), +, “”, and ...
  • Page 26 Example of returned data (line feed and carriage return are shown here, and they are not actually returned): (if after the commands code there isn’t any data, it means that this value is not set yet. For example if after TS: there isn’t anything, it means that the job is not started yet) DLF STATUS:cutting(0x17) N:001,STJ:cutting,FD:0,FTD:2,C:Customer 1,TS:dd-mm-aaaa H:mm;...
  • Page 27 APPEND JOB TO QUEUE: Command: APPEND:N:(job code),C:(customer);(FILE_A->)F:(file name),M:(material),LTD:(layouts to do (number or “u” for unlimited));(FILE_B->)F:(file name),...;!. Description: This command allows you to append a new job to the queue. YOU MUSTN’T USE FILES WITH THE SAME NAME AMONG THE JOBS. FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN’T ADD FILE_A TO BOTH JOBS N:001 AND N:002, OR ADD IT TWO TIMES TO THE SAME JOB.
  • Page 28 JOBS QUEUE WINDOW Description: Each time a job is appended to the queue, it gets shown in this window. The user can see for each job which files needs to open, their order, the type of material, the layouts to do. The user can even choose to delete the files from queue, by clicking on the trash can icon on the right.

  • Page 29: Correct Position

    ERROR MESSAGGES If the plotter is not correctly connected to the computer, the following errors will be displayed at application launch: Make sure the plotter is switched on and properly connected. In case it is turned off, turn the plotter on and then press the button 2 on the control panel.
  • Page 30 The cutting shape must be 100% black (otherwise in case of dashed lines, it must be a 100% magenta normal line) and have a thickness of 1 pt. The black-mark MUST ALWAYS be the object placed in the lower left corner of any layout file.

  • Page 31: Black-Mark Position In The Media

    BLACK-MARK POSITION IN THE MEDIA cutting direction label step distance of cut line distance of black-mark from right edge: from left edge: minimum advised between minimum advised between 5mm and 10mm 5mm and 10mm HOW TO CUT BLANK LABELS To use the “Blank Label Mode” feature to cut blank labels (without a registration mark), follow these steps: 1.

  • Page 32: How To Restore Plotter Settings

    HOW TO UPDATE SOFTWARE 1. Go to Panel control. 2. Unistall Afinia Cutting Manager. 3. Download from the website the new Cutting Manager release and run the installation. HOW TO RESTORE PLOTTER SETTINGS 1. Turn off the plotter. 2. Turn on the plotter while keeping pushed the UP arrow on the panel. 3.
  • Page 33 9. Select metric by pressing button 1 and 10. Press button 2. then enter. 11. Wait until on the display appears 12. Press “PAUSE/MENU” then go to I/F “READY”. (press up arrow key). 13. Go to command (press 2). 14. Select GPGL (press 1 then enter). 15.
  • Page 34 18. Open the Cutting manager and click 17. Wait until on the display appears on “Advanced” and then select “Init cutter”. “READY”. Click “YES” to confirm 19. Wait until “Init cutter completed” will be shown in the status bar. Plotter display will show “LABEL MEDIA” as status.

  • Page 35: Media Path

    MEDIA PATH WASTE REMOVING & LAMINATING & REWINDING MODULE UNWINDING MODULE WASTE LAMINATE ROLL ROLL FINISHED INPUT ROLL ROLL TENSION ARM CALIBRATION (WASTE REMOVING & REWINDING MODULE) Perform this procedure to set the unit to run properly with different labels lengh. 1.
  • Page 36 MODULES SPEED ROTATION LAMINATING & UNWINDING MODULE WASTE REMOVING & REWINDING MODULE...
  • Page 37 GRAPHTECH MAINTENANCE Cutter Plunger The plotter cuts using a cutter blade mounted in a plunger. There are two different plungers to suit the diameter of the cutter blade to be mounted (the 0.9 mm cutter plunger is provided as a standard accessory). Be sure to mount the cutter blade in the corresponding cutter plunger.
  • Page 38 Mounting the tool 1. Loosen the tool holder screw. Bracket to hold tool Tool holder Tool holder Bracket to hold tool 2. While pushing up the tool holder, push until its flange completely touches the upper part of the holder. Bracket to Tool holder hold tool...

  • Page 39: How To Replace The Slitter Blade

    HOW TO REPLACE THE KNIFE See page 24 for the structure of the cutter plunger. 1. Turn the blade-length adjustment knob in the direction of the B arrow and pull the blade into the plunger. Scale Cutter blade moves approximately 0.1 mm turning one scale unit Scale 2.

  • Page 40: How To Replace The Cutting Mat

    HOW TO REPLACE THE CUTTING MAT CAUTION: Please turn off the power when replacing the cutting mat. Please move the tool carriage to “A” position allowing for ease of work. 1. Remove the cutting mat. -The cutting mat is attached to the cutting base (fig.2) -Please remove only the cutting mat from the cutting mat base from the location shown by the arrow (A) (fig.1) - After removing the cutting mat, please make sure that there is no adhesive tape...
  • Page 41 IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WITH THE ANY OF OUR Afinia UNITS, PLEASE FOLLOW TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS BELOW Yellow and Green LED’s simultaneously on lamination control board (Applies to all Afinia models) Problem: Yellow and Green LED’s simultaneously on lamination control board. This will also create the following error: Cause: All Afinia Digital Finishing Systems are equipped with two reflective sensors on the lamination module.
  • Page 42 Plotter error “E01017 Hardware X Position Alarm Power off then on Problem: The plotter displays an error “E01017 Hardware X Position Alarm Power off then on”. Cause: The plotter will give you this error after starting a job in Afinia CM and the tensioner arm was not set-up to begin with or the tensioner arm was positioned too high after turning on the lamination module.
  • Page 43 Plotter error “E01019 Hardware Y Position Alarm Power off then on” Problem: The plotter displays an error “E01019 Hardware Y Position Alarm Power off then on”. Cause: This error occurs when the blade tray was moved from side to side by the user after loading the media onto the plotter and with the rear plotter lever in the up position.
  • Page 44 The Media or Lamination roll might be finished, please check it. Proceed with cutting? Problem: Yellow and Green light simultaneously on lamination control board. Cause: When both the yellow and green LEDs on lamination control panel are on, it would indicate that either the media or lamination sensor have picked up and error or the sensors may be out of sync and needs to be calibrated.
  • Page 45 Can’t load sensors Cause: Media/Lamination sensors might be not plugged in correctly or turned off. Fix: Check if sensors are powered up and plugged correctly into the black sensor box. Then Retry. If you do not want to keep activated the sensors, click Ignore. Error: plotter not found Cause: The plotter might be switched off or not properly connected.
  • Page 46 Please forward the media to the next black-mark Cause: The starting Y position of the cut is a negative value (you can see coordinates on plotter’s display when you move the media with arrows). Keep in mind also the offset influences the starting position of the cut. So, if you start the cut at Y coordinates 0, while you have an offset Y value of -10, you will still get this error.
  • Page 47 Error after opening a .pdf file Cause: - The antivirus doesn’t allow the software to open the file - The file is loaded from a server web or a remote disk. This may create issues sometimes - The file is not properly built Fix: - Add the cutting manager to your antivirus’s whitelist - Move your file to your computer...

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