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◊ The settings from 1 through 4 are the slow speeds and should be used when cutting dense difficult

materials, such as chipboard, craft plastic, styrene, and balsa.

◊ The settings from 5 through 8 are medium speeds and should be used for easy-to-cut materials, such

as cardstock, vinyl, iron-on transfer, and rhinestone template material.

◊ The settings from 9 through 12 are the fast speeds and are useful for engraving, embossing, and

drawing. You may, however, find that some materials will cut well at the faster speeds.

• Cutting Speed is usually more important to control since the blade may need more contact time with a

particular material. Travel Speed can usually be left quite high although, for print and cut accuracy, it may

need to be lowered if there are many shapes to be cut from a printout.

• IMPORTANT: At the current time, the Travel Speed does not function from SignMaster. Thus, if you need a

separate Cut Speed and Up Speed, please use the control panel for this setting.

• On the Skycut control panel, the default setting is to have the Up Speed and Cut Speed the same and

referred to as SPEED. This can be adjusted by pressing the Force/Speed icon and then setting the

SPEED to the desired level. In order to enter a separate Up Speed on the control panel, refer to Section

1.14.1.

2.03.3 Blade Offset

• Blade Offset is the horizontal distance from the center of the blade shaft to the tip of the blade. A pen or

engraving tool has an offset of 0 because the tip is centered with the center of the pen/engraving tool shaft.

But a blade is different:

• If you set the Blade Offset to 0 when cutting with a blade, corners will be rounded. On the other hand, if it is

set too high, bubbles will be cut on sharp corners:

• Below are the approximate Blade Offset settings to use for each of the three types of Skycut blades:

◊ Red capped blade: 0.3 mm

◊ Blue capped blade: 0.4 mm

◊ Yellow capped blade: 0.75 mm

• Any time you order new blades, check for the recommended Blade Offset on the packaging. However, it’s

not unusual for blades to be slightly off-spec.

• SignMaster has two built-in Blade Offset calibration routines which can be used to determine the best

Blade Offset setting for the current blade in use. Here are the steps to access either one:

Offset is too low:

corners are rounded

Offset is too high: bubbles

appear at the corners

Imagine a line

passing through

the center of the

test pen or

blade

The Offset is the distance

between the center of the

blade holder and the tip of the

blade.

There is no

Offset

on a

pen.