Foison C12 User Manual

Foison C12 User Manual

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C SERIES USER'S MANUAL
C12/24/48
CUTTING PLOTTER
All Rights Reserved to Foison Technology Ltd.
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  • Page 1 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL C12/24/48 CUTTING PLOTTER All Rights Reserved to Foison Technology Ltd.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Preface Preface Chapter One Standard Parts 1.1 Standard Accessories with Cutter………………………………………………………….5 1.1.2 C48 Sketch for Vertical Stands Installation…………………………………………..…6 1.2 Optional Accessories……………………………………………………………………...…6 1.2.1 Software……………………………………………………………………………………6 1.2.2 C24 Stand Installation Sketch………………………………………………………...….7 Chapter Two Safety Precaution 2.1 Safety Precaution…………………………………………………………………………...8 Chapter 3 Features Product Parameters……………………………………………………………………………11 Chapter Four Parts Name and Function 4.1 Front View C-24 ……………………………………………………………………….12...
  • Page 3 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.3 Speed and Knife Force Setting…………………………………………….……………23 6.4.4 Knife drop/raise Test………………………………………………………………..24 6.4.5 Test Rectangle Cutting Operation………………………………………………………25 6.4.6 Pause Button Operation……………………………………………………..…………..26 6.4.7 Online-change Speed and Knife Force Operation……………………………………..27 6.4.8 Repeat Function………………………………………………………………....28 6.4.9 Port Setting………………………………………………………………......28 6.4.10 X, Y Scale Setting……………………………………………………………….....29 Chapter Seven Print Output 7.1 ARTCUT Output Parameter and Port Setting………………………………..…………30 7.2 Compensation Setting………………………………………………………………..31...
  • Page 4 In order to use the cutter correctly and safely, please read above relative contents, and leave the manual at where you can catch conveniently. Prior operating the FOISON cutter, please thoroughly read the manual, which will help you acquire performance of the machine and make best of its functions, please keep the manual well for future reference.
  • Page 5: Chapter One Standard Parts

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter One Standard Parts The following cutter standard accessories with the cutter can be available in a packing box. If you find any damaged, please contact with the local distributor or our company. The other following optional accessories should be ordered optionally. 1.1 Standard Accessories with Cutter Number Item...
  • Page 6: C48 Sketch For Vertical Stands Installation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 1.1.2 C48 Sketch for Vertical Stands Installation Only C48 is equipped with stand, the stands is optional for C24 1.2 Optional Accessories 1.2.1 Software Number Item Quality Icon Artcut Software Flexi Software PCSIGN Letter Software C48 Sketch for Vertical Stands Installation...
  • Page 7: C24 Stand Installation Sketch

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 1.2.2 C24 Stand Installation Sketch Only C48 is equipped with stand, the stand is optional for C24 Introduction for the common used tool and its usage Icon Series Number Angle Application 45° C12/24/C48 60° C12/24/C48...
  • Page 8: Chapter Two Safety Precaution

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Two Safety Precaution The following icons are used in the manual; aims to make sure the user operate the cutter properly to avoid damaged the cutter. Please comply with the explanation of the icon. 2.1 Safety Precaution Definition of Warning Symbols serious casualty : Any improper operation possibly results in hazard...
  • Page 9 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Do not touch the knife top with your finger to prevent injury or perspiration of knife head. Do not damage or random replace the supplied power cable. Do not excessively bend, pull, bundle the power cable or place weight on it, otherwise the power source may be damaged even fire or electric shock is thus incurred.
  • Page 10 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Warning Do not use the power source not meeting rating voltage, otherwise fire or electric shock may be resulted in. If the machine gives out smoke or unpleasing smell, or noise sounds please do not use it .in such cases, continuing using it may result in fire or electric shock.
  • Page 11: Chapter 3 Features

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter 3 Features Product Parameters Model C-12 C-24 C-48 structure desktop desktop /(optional Stands (with stands) stands) Accept media 415mm 720mm 1300mm width Max cutting width 305mm 610mm 1220mm Main board High speed Arithmetic Microprocessor, 1MB cache Interface RS232,USB Control penal...
  • Page 12: Chapter Four Parts Name And Function

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Four Parts Name and Function 4.1 Front View C-24 Blade Control Base Left cabinet Right Panel Transmission Shaft Carriage Paperweight Wheel Serial Interface 4.2 Back View C-24 USB Interface Roller Power Switch Power Interface Front Back Sketch...
  • Page 13: Control Panel

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 4.3 Control Panel 1 LCD LCD Display 2 Paper Feeding Button it is X direction button under offline; it is value“-”under parameter menu. 3 Original Setting Button: Press such button to fix the coordinate point under offline. Rightward Button it is Y direction button under offline;...
  • Page 14: Chapter Five Cutter Installation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Five Cutter Installation 5.1 Installation and Connection 5.1.1 Cutting Environment Place the cutter in adequate space in case to replace some parts, output the media and make sure ventilation. The place for installing the cutter shown as below Don’t install your cutter in the following place - The place where is direct sunlight - The place where is vibration...
  • Page 15: Usb Driver Installation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 5.1.3 USB Driver Installation For USB connection, you need to install the driver equipped with the cutter. Please install CH341SER.EX file under USB DRIVER in the disk equipped with the cutter. After installing successfully, connect the USB cable to computer USB port. Set the right port; please refer to the appendix for setting the port.
  • Page 16: Tools Installation

    5.2.4 Raise two handles of paperweight wheel, to make paperweight wheel down to press paper 5.3 Tools Installation CAUTION Do not touch the knife top with your finger to preserve injury or passivetion of knife head. 5.3.1Tool Introduction and Application Icon Series Number Angle Application 45° C12/24/C48 60° C12/24/C48...
  • Page 17: Plot Pen Installation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 5.3.2 Adjust the protruding length of the knife top as required for specific cutting media Superficil material Base paper Correct Tool long protruding Tool short protruding Length of knife point length of knife point 5.3.3 (1) Loosen the screw of tool carrier (2)Assembly the tool with knife into the tool carrier (3)When the tool is in appropriate position screw it and fix the screw.
  • Page 18: Chapter Six General Settings And Operation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Six General Settings and Operation 6.1 Work Status Descriptions 6.1.1 Online/Offline When the cutter is switched on, it will reset and set to Online status. Press “ONLINE” to switch Online/Offline status. When the cutter transmits data to PC, the cutter must be in Online status.
  • Page 19: Original Point Setting

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.1.3 Original Point Setting When the carriage needs to move to the original point, press “ ”, X and Y value will set to “0”. Then the new original point is set. The cutter will begin working at the new original point.
  • Page 20: Bounded System

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.1.4 Bounded system The cutter adopts advance optical coupler bounded system. The following introduces how the optical coupler takes effect. Move the carriage to the left side of the cutter, if the cutter exceeds the work area, the optical coupler bounded system takes effect.
  • Page 21: Offline Status Description

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Setting Mode Menu Definition Button Function Description Menu Menu Switch Press once and enter into Set Per menu Baud Rate Increase Press once and increase to a defined baud rate Baud Rate Decrease Press once and decrease to a defined baud rate Idle Speed Increase Press once the Idle Speed will increase by 50mm/s Idle Speed Decrease...
  • Page 22: Menu Operation Description

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL The left and right herein refer to the person stands in front of the cutter. The object is subject to the person’s direction. 6.4 Menu Operation Description 6.4.1 Power on Display Ver 120: The cutter program version is 120 The default value: Speed V=400mm, Knife Force f=200g.
  • Page 23: Speed And Knife Force Setting

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.3 Speed and Knife Force Setting Speed and Knife Force Setting...
  • Page 24: Knife Drop/Raise Test

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.4 Knife drop/raise Test Press Repeat to test knife drop/raise. Press once is knife drop and press once again knife raise. Please refer to the media and examine the difference after changing the knife force. Hints: the difference effect can be seen after using normal knife force. Knife drop/raise Test...
  • Page 25: Test Rectangle Cutting Operation

    Press Test, the cutter will begin test. The Test button is effective only when the cutter is Offline. When the cutter is working, the LCD will display Online. After it finishes working, the cuter will turn back to online status, i.e.: display Foison. Shown as followings: Test Rectangle Cutting Operation...
  • Page 26: Pause Button Operation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.6 Pause Button Operation Press Test for three seconds will realize self rectangle test cutting. Shown as following: Pause Button Operation...
  • Page 27: Online-Change Speed And Knife Force Operation

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.7 Online-change Speed and Knife Force Operation During the operation, we can adjust the speed and knife force when the cuter is working. The instructions show as following. Hints: The adjusted speed and knife force will be realized when the carriage finish cutting one point to another.
  • Page 28: Repeat Function

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.8 Repeat Function Each time after finish working, switch the cutter into offline status and press Repeat. The cutter will repeat the job done last time. Hints: The main board load in flash memory, so it can not repeat the last job after the cutter switch on again.
  • Page 29: X, Y Scale Setting

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 6.4.10 X, Y Scale Setting Press Menu once again and enter into Set Per setting. Xp and Yp refer to cutting scale. The purpose is to set the scale from PC and output file into 1:1 (If there’s any error between the actual output and the software setting, please adjust Xp and Yp.
  • Page 30: Chapter Seven Print Output

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Seven Print Output When all parameters are well set, switch the cutter into online status. Install the necessary software. (C series cutter is compatible with standard HPGL, DMPL code. So it is compatible with many software, if you need to obtain the detailed list, please contact to our Technical Department.) In the software setting, please note that both baud rate and port setting shall be identical with the cutter.
  • Page 31: Compensation Setting

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Click Setup, set Communication Port and Baud Rate on the dialogue Serial Port Setting. Shown as following: Hints: Please refer to Appendix to check out the way of COM and Baud Rate setting. 7.2 Compensation Setting When the cutter need to cut, the “Ploter Compensation”...
  • Page 32 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL deform. The values shall is set according to plotter pen divided from the center. Most plotter can be 0.35. Note that if Sharp Anger is selected, the plotting time will be longer. The way is: set Close and Sharp Angle well in the “Ploter Compensation” option, shown as followings:...
  • Page 33: Chapter Eight Troubleshooting

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Eight Troubleshooting 8.1 Question: Will the character below 1CM be deformed? Answer: when graving small characters, please set sharp-angle compensation in the software, for example, in ArtCut plotting software: 1 Click “Plotting Output” once, a plotting output will pop up. 2 Click “Set”...
  • Page 34 4. If the problem is still in existence, please contact with repair center 8.10 Question: how do we maintain the cutter? Answer: Foison series cutter all employ upscale oil bearing from Japan, no oil is needed even it works for a long time.
  • Page 35: Chapter Nine Appendix

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Chapter Nine Appendix Appendix 1 CorelDraw Output Open CorelDraw software, we can adjust the edit size according to the cutter’s working size. Shown as following: Next input characters on the edit size. It needs to change the input physical font into frame font. In that case the cutter can out put frame font.
  • Page 36 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Next remove the filling by using No Fill, shown as following: Then see the removed effect, shown as following: CorelDraw Output...
  • Page 37 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Select Print and set Print setting parameters, shown as following: Next preview the print output, shown as following: It can output now. Note that set well the communication port otherwise it is unable to output. CorelDraw Output...
  • Page 38: Appendix 2 Coreldraw Software Output

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Appendix 2 CorelDraw Software Output ( ) Install CorelDraw, if such software has been installed in the PC, it needn’t to install. ( ) Install print driver. Use Roland CM-24 driver directly. Next will introduce how to install the driver.
  • Page 39 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL But if it’s COM2, selects COM2. Click OK and enter next step, shown as following: Ignore Bit per second and Flow control options, they will be introduced latter. Click Close. The driver is well-installed. 2) Enter Printer and Faxes setting of the PC, shown as following: CorelDraw Software Output...
  • Page 40 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Set CM-24 as Default Printer. Click right button, choose Properties, will appear the following: CorelDraw Software Output...
  • Page 41 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Select the communication port that identical with cutter that connects to PC port. After selecting the port, click CONFIGURE PORT and set other parameters, shown as following: The Bits per second option is used to set baud rate. The baud rate MUST be the same in both software and cutter, otherwise it can not output.
  • Page 42: Appendix 3 Port Setting And Replacement

    C SERIES USER’S MANUAL Appendix 3 Port Setting and Replacement After the USB driver is well-installed, switch on the cutter, the computer will indicate that new device was found and it will automatically install the driver for the cutter. Set the port parameter according to the following way: Select My Computer –...
  • Page 43 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL 2) Select Port Settings options 3) Click Advanced and enter port selection, shown as followings, then click COM Port Number. Offline Status Description...
  • Page 44 C SERIES USER’S MANUAL There are many ports selectable. Note that if the port is using, it will mark “In Use”. We can choose other ports that are not in use. After selecting the port, the USB port will set as the new selected port.

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