Chapter 64: Ensuring Print-To-Cut Registration; Calibrating The Plotter To A Printer - Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual

Chapter 64:
Ensuring Print-to-Cut Registration
Proper cut registration on printed jobs is essential to achieving quality outputs. An improperly
calibrated plotter or misaligned targets can ruin a job. Before sending the job to the plotter
checking such areas as proper plotter calibration and target configuration helps ensure the best
possible cut.

Calibrating the plotter to a printer

Calibrating the plotter to the intended printer ensures the optimum print-to-cut registration. If
you have multiple printers or plotters, note which plotter is calibrated to which printer when
choosing the printer and plotter for a job. A calibrated system is indicated by an asterisk (*) in
the Calibration column of the Plotter/Printer Select dialog box.
Before calibrating a system, determine if there is a need for plotter calibration by printing and
cutting the calibration test pattern. After calibrating a system, you can calibrate a different
combination of devices by removing the existing calibration of a specific plotter and printer.
To print and cut the plotter calibration test
1 Click File > Open the Open dialog box appears.
2 Navigate to C:\Jobs\Calibrat and choose the job: CALIBRATE.PLT which is the
calibration test pattern plot file.
3 Click Open.
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