Technical information

prints registration marks these should be placed inside the rectangle to avoid picking up these

registration marks.

Using 3 Targets to Scale to Printer

When you receive it from the factory, the cutter should be calibrated to a ruler and the sensor

size and offset should be set when you receive your cutter. You should save this information on

your hard drive with the Action -> Save Calibration and specify the file name factory defaults.

To get accurate cut lines the cut size must agree with the print size. Using 3 Targets corrects the

size of the cut lines to the print size.

Creating Job

See the tutorial in the i-TECH users manual for creating a job using Adobe Illustrator

Sample Job

There are 2 documents for sample files on technical support, miscellaneous page. See More

Information section below.

A sample job for Illustrator/CorelDraw is available on the Allen Datagraph Web Site. Go to

3x5LabelForDfs.zip

Web Site Copy / CD Copy.

A sample job for Gerber Omega (direct origin only and through printer driver)

SmartMarkOmegaFiles.zip

Web Site Copy / CD Copy

Sensor Training

Each media and target print color requires different sensor training. See complete instructions in

i-TECH users manual. Move to white. Wait for cutter idle. Press mode button until the yellow

led next to teach. Press the jog button. Move to black. Wait for cutter idle. Press the jog

button. Good is displayed if teaching is successful.

Sending Job to Graphics Printer

Use the cad system to send the job to the printer to print on the vinyl. Remove media from

graphics printer.

Load Media into Cutter

See also loading section in i-TECH users manual. Raise pinch wheels with lever. Place printed

media into cutter. Align the media near square by using the joystick button left and right so that

red dot is close to alignment of origin and skew targets. Slide left most pinch wheel to edge of

media. Right edge of media should be at the edge of black vinyl on right side of machine platen.

Lower pinch wheels. Use joystick buttons to position knife about 1 inch before printed area. If

load light is on press pause and load to turn it off. Press the load button to load media. Using

joystick button joystick forward a couple of feet and back to verify media tracks correctly.

Position red dot near outside edge of origin target.