How to Choose reflective film cutting machine?

Are you using the correct blade?

You need this blade - not from this site... Just the first that's come up for me. And a cb15 holder. It's super expensive, but cuts through pris.atic pretty good. The more pinch wheels you have the better as well... We added 2 to our fc.

And then there's limitations. Cutting anything under 2" is a pain - well, cutting anything is a pain... Anything under 2 is hair pulling pain.

Graphtec CB15UA-K30 60° Super-Steel Blade - For High Intensity Reflective Media

Blade CB15UA-K30 designed to cut high intensity reflective. Packs available. Highly durable. Diamond grade. Prismatics and reflective sheet media. For use with CE & FC series. We offer 0% financing & Free shipping. Live chat & customer support.

Are you using the correct blade?

You need this blade - not from this site... Just the first that's come up for me. And a cb15 holder. It's super expensive, but cuts through pris.atic pretty good. The more pinch wheels you have the better as well... We added 2 to our fc.

And then there's limitations. Cutting anything under 2" is a pain - well, cutting anything is a pain... Anything under 2 is hair pulling pain.

Graphtec CB15UA-K30 60° Super-Steel Blade - For High Intensity Reflective Media

Blade CB15UA-K30 designed to cut high intensity reflective. Packs available. Highly durable. Diamond grade. Prismatics and reflective sheet media. For use with CE & FC series. We offer 0% financing & Free shipping. Live chat & customer support.

Hi Ikarasu - thanks for the info - we do have this genuine graphtec blade and holder - the biggest issues we've had (and others have said the same) is the 3M HIP media ( & ) we are using just slips on the rollers (The backing just wont grip on the rollers - almost at all.) It starts off seeming to be fine then (even at really slow speeds) it will just completely shift the sheet of media sideways and rotate it. We are using 4 pinch rollers - do you think more than this would help? I'm willing to try this with more pinch rollers - if I can get someone to say it actually works - just don't want to invest the $$ in more rollers if its not going to make a lick of difference...... How many rollers are you using?

It's at the point where we are going into much larger metal sign production and still using roll to roll printers so need a solution - or we'll just get a CNC flat bed router....

Hi Ikarasu - thanks for the info - we do have this genuine graphtec blade and holder - the biggest issues we've had (and others have said the same) is the 3M HIP media ( & ) we are using just slips on the rollers (The backing just wont grip on the rollers - almost at all.) It starts off seeming to be fine then (even at really slow speeds) it will just completely shift the sheet of media sideways and rotate it. We are using 4 pinch rollers - do you think more than this would help? I'm willing to try this with more pinch rollers - if I can get someone to say it actually works - just don't want to invest the $$ in more rollers if its not going to make a lick of difference...... How many rollers are you using?

It's at the point where we are going into much larger metal sign production and still using roll to roll printers so need a solution - or we'll just get a CNC flat bed router....

If you're doing high volumes.of thick reflective... Get a flatbed cutter. Doesn't have to be a big 4x8 one, the graphtec flatbed is nice as is the summa.

You can cut decently on the roll laminators, more rollers help... But when we cut 10ft long sections it still skews a bit, which causes the edges to not be perfectly cut and the weeding requires cleanup.

It's just the nature of the beast with roll cutters... You can get by with one, but if I were cutting highway signs every week I'd buy a true flatbed

It is inevitable that the cut table or material surface is not at the same height from point to point, we take Grating Ruler, a precise optical device, to measure the distance between blade tip and material surface in real time, and the cutting depth is adjusted in every 0.01mm by the controller in real time according to the value of distances measured. Subsequently, the blade travels up and down as material surface goes up and down in order to keep the same cutting depth at any position of that tool path across entire working size.In short the cutting depth is consistent; you will not see different shades.

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The Grating Ruler and correspondent cutting force management deliver clean smooth edge quality, even for the most complex jobs. GR series is able to cut small text strings and it is easy to peal off the waste material, which cut down workload greatly for the users.

One-click to spot the cutting job from those saved in the USB memory by scanning the Bar-code which is printed in media, while not requiring connecting to PC. This function is especially helpful to increase the productivity when there are many files stored in the USB memory.

Contact us to discuss your requirements of reflective film cutting machine. Our experienced sales team can help you identify the options that best suit your needs.

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One-click to add registration marks and generate contour(s) of the object(s).

One-click to read the registration marks and carry out the contour cutting.

To match the cutting path(s) and contour(s) to the best, fine adjustment with either keypad or software is available. If material is placed askew (≤15°), the cutter is still able to work fine, this feature helps to save time.

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