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CONTENTS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
UNPACKING YOUR PLOTTER
1.1
Checking the Standard Accessories ..................................................................................
1-1
1.2
Plotter Nomenclature .........................................................................................................
1-2
CUTTER BLADES AND PENS
2.1
Types and Features of Cutter Blades ................................................................................
2-1
2.2
Nomenclature of Cutter Pens ............................................................................................
2-2
2.3
Replacing a Cutter Blade ...................................................................................................
2-3
2.4
Adjusting the Blade Length ................................................................................................
2-4
PREPARING FOR A CUTTING OPERATION
3.1
Control Panel .....................................................................................................................
3-1
3.2
The Tree Structure of Menus .............................................................................................
3-3
3.3
Connecting Your Plotter to a Computer .............................................................................
3-4
3.4
Turning on the Plotter and Initialization .............................................................................
3-5
3.5
Securing a Medium ............................................................................................................
3-6
SPECIFYING THE PEN CONDITIONS
4.1
The Cutter Pen’s Conditions ..............................................................................................
4-1
4.2
Selecting a Set of Cutting Conditions ................................................................................
4-2
4.3
Specifying the Cutting Conditions ......................................................................................
4.3.1 Specifying the Cutter OFFSET .................................................................................
4.3.2 Specifying the Cutting/Plotting FORCE ....................................................................
4.3.3 Specifying the Cutting SPEED .................................................................................
4.3.4 Selecting the Cutting QUALITY ................................................................................
4.3.5 Setting Cutting Conditions in THICK MODE .............................................................
4-3
4-3
4-4
4-4
4-5
4-6
4.4
Running a Cutting Test ......................................................................................................
4-7
USING THE BASIC FUNCTIONS
5.1
Specifying the Origin Point of the Plotting Area .................................................................
5-1
5.2
Using the COPY function ...................................................................................................
5-2
5.3
Specifying the Corrective Values for the Pen Width ..........................................................
5-5
5.4
Raising or Lowering the Pen ..............................................................................................
5-7
5.5
Clearing the Plotter’s Internal Buffer Memory ....................................................................
5-8
5.6
Specifying the Pen Conditions ...........................................................................................
5-9
USING THE MAIN FUNCTIONS
6.1
Selecting the ORIGIN POINT Position in HP-GL Mode .....................................................
6-1
6.2
Specifying the Effective Cutting/Plotting AREA .................................................................
6-2
6.3
Enabling the ROTATE Mode to Rotate the Coordinate Axes .............................................
6-4
6.4
Specifying the THICK MODE Settings ...............................................................................
6-6
6.5
Enabling the MIRROR Mode to Produce a Mirror Image ..................................................
6-7
6.6
Specifying the Pen SORT Function ...................................................................................
6-9
6.7
Overview of Automatic Registration Mark Recognition ...................................................... 6-11