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AFINIA LABEL DLF-350L User Manual

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USER MANUAL
DLF-220L / 350L
Digital Label Finishers
WITH GRAPHTEC CE8000-40
Revision 6.0
October, 2024

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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL DLF-220L / 350L Digital Label Finishers WITH GRAPHTEC CE8000-40 Revision 6.0 October, 2024...
  • 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 available websites afinialabel.com afinialabel.co.uk.
  • Page 5 Lamination / matrix remover&slitter modules speed rotation .......page 38 How to install pressing roller ................page 39 How to used the o-ring on the matrix roller ..........page 39 Narrower media on the DLF-350L ..........page 39 Graphtec mantenance ................page 40 How to replace the knife ................page 42 How to replace the slitter blade ..............page 42...
  • Page 6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS The cutting manager works on Windows Camera usb plotter usb OS from Windows 8.1. We do not guarantee its functionality on previous versions. Not compatible with macOS systems. Cutting files: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw or Inkscape (PDF). Diagram connectors behind the on-off panel.
  • Page 7 HOW TO INSTALL THE CUTTING PLOTTER 1. Click on “Setup DLF...” and follow the step by step instructions to complete the installation. Please connect Afinia USB to your pc before the installation is complete 2. Click NEXT 3. Click NEXT 4.
  • Page 8 8. Click FINISH 9. Click OK 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 CE8000-40 driver was Graphtec (CE8000-40).
  • Page 9 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 one of these options: - The unit’s key, which can be found attached to the plotter.
  • Page 10 HOW TO LOAD AND OPERATE THE LAMINATION MODULE Core Holder No. 1 > Printed roll Core Holder No. 2 > Liner roll Core Holder No. 3 > Laminate roll Load the printed roll and move it against the roll guide. Tighten the core holder. Load an empty cardboard core onto the shaft intended for laminate liner rewinding.
  • Page 11 LAMINATED ROLL LAMINATED ROLL LINER ROLL INPUT ROLL Hold the laminating film with both hands, pull it through the guide rollers, center it and adhere the laminating film to the web and attach the liner onto cardboard. !PLEASE LOOK AT THE LAMINATION PATH! (PAGE 37) OPEN CLOSE...
  • Page 12 LOAD THE MEDIA INTO THE PLOTTER Pull the laminated media underneath the tension arm, than pass it through the aluminium rollers, the guide can be adjusted preventing the web from rolling. Put the lever, located in the rear of the plotter, in the down position. Pull the media through the plotter and keep the media edge aligned to the alignment points.
  • Page 13 HOW TO RUN THE CUT TEST AND START A JOB >> How to run the black-mark mode 1. Open Afinia Cutting Manager. 2. Press “OPEN PDF” or “OPEN LAST JOB” to load the cutting file. 3. Look at the camera preview, hold down “BACKWARD MEDIA” or “FORWARD MEDIA” arrows to move the web until the black-mark goes in the center position of the blue rectangle area.
  • Page 14 8. Once the cut settings are properly set, select “COPY MODE” ON if you desire a preset quantity of copies or OFF if you desire unlimited copies until the media roll is finished. 9. Set the black-mark size” in “BLACK-MARK MODE” area. 10.
  • Page 15 HOW LOAD THE MATRIX REMOVER & SLITTER After you CUT TEST is successful, press “START” to cut a few labels until you think you have enough media to load onto the matrix remover. Pull the sides of the black knobs and lift up the clutch system, other black knobs will keep it open.
  • Page 16 HOW TO LOAD THE MATRIX REMOVER CORE HOLDER WARNING: Before starting a job, always remove the waste media from the matrix remover core. Tape the matrix securely onto the cardboard core. System operating issues may occur if the above suggestions are not followed. FINISHED ROLL WASTE...
  • Page 17 OPEN CLOSE Slitter module has 3 positions: - Upper position (A), the blades are lifted to allow the media loading; - Middle position (B), align the blades with the edges and the center of the labels, tighten the thumb screw once the blade is in position; - Lower position (C), the blade cut the media.
  • Page 18 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; 6. Feed edges trim waste into the waste basket under the hole. Press RESUME to start your finishing process.
  • Page 19 Afinia cutting manager (Afinia CM) USER INTERFACE...
  • Page 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 24 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 25 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 26 Report (26) Report will display the cuts run by the Cutting Manager system. Each session report is automatically added and saved into the history report when cutting manager is closed. You can find the complete report history file of all the jobs run since cutting manger has been installed to this path “C:/Unit Cutting manager/Report/CutHistory.txt”...
  • Page 27 INDUSTRY 4.0 COMMUNICATION SPECIFICATIONS The user application must communicate with the Unit 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 28 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) Unit STATUS:cutting(0x17) N:001,STJ:cutting,FD:0,FTD:2,C:Customer 1,TS:dd-mm-aaaa H:mm;...
  • Page 29 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 30 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 31 ERROR MESSAGGES If the plotter is not connected correctly to the computer, the following errors will be displayed at the application launch: Make sure the plotter is switched on and properly connected. In case it is turned off, please turn the plotter on and than press Roll 2 on control panel and wait until the display will show “READY”...
  • Page 32 CUTTING FILE SPECIFICATIONS Cut Files: Adobe Illustrator and/or Corel Draw (save as PDF file). The artwork file within the cutting shape must include a registration square black mark having a size of 4x4mm or 2x2mm. Only the cut contour lines (which must be completely vectorial and don’t contain any filling) and black mark (not needed for the blank labels) can be in the saved cut file.
  • Page 33 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 If you wish to use the “blank label” feature to cut blank labels (without registration mark), please follow these steps: 1.
  • Page 34 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. HOW TO RESTORE PLOTTER SETTINGS HOW TO RESTORE PLOTTER SETTINGS 1.
  • Page 35 9. Press metric. If request, do not set up 10. Lower the lever on the back and press the wireless lan on the three lines at the bottom right 11. Press “CONFIG” 12. Select “COMMAND” 13. Select “COMMAND TYPE” 14. Select GPGL. 15.
  • Page 36 18. Open the Cutting manager, click on 17. Wait until on the display appears “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 37 MEDIA PATH LAMINATION MODULE Laminate roll Laminate roll Liner roll << to plotter << to plotter Input roll Input roll LAMINATION MODULE LAMINATION MODULE (without liner) (with liner) MATRIX REMOVER & SLITTER MODULE CAUTION: Both cardboard cores Matrix loaded must be with the same external Waste diameter.
  • Page 38 LAMINATION / MATRIX REMOVER & SLITTER MODULES SPEED ROTATION LAMINATION MODULE MATRIX REMOVER & SLITTER MODULE...
  • Page 39 (pg. 16) NARROWER MEDIA ON THE DLF-350L In order to use narrower media (from 108 to 220mm wide) on the Afinia DLF-350L, load the roll of labels exactly at the correspondence of the label onto the unwinder core holder.
  • Page 40 GRAPHTEC 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 41 Mounting the tool 1. Loosen the tool holder screw. Tool clamper Tool holder Tool holder Loosen the screw until this protrusion comes off. 2. While pushing up the tool clamper, set the tool in the tool holder. When using with the cutting out perforation cut Move using the triangle mark in the back as a guide.
  • Page 42 HOW TO REPLACE THE KNIFE See page 40 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 43 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 44 HOW TO CREATE THE QR CODE This feature allows system to load automatically the cut file related the job printed onto the media. Simple steps to set properly the data matrix code. - use any QR code generator. - mandatory size is 10x10mm. - printed once at the beginning of each job.
  • Page 45 QR POSITION IN THE MEDIA RESPECT AREA Align the QR on the left side of the blackmark HOW TO RUN THE QR MODE The cutting manager allows you to work with QR codes, for cut different jobs on the same roll.
  • Page 46 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 47 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 48 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 49 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 50 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 51 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 52 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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