SummaSign Pro SL T-series, User Manual

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Page 5: ...CERTIFICATIONS 1 7 1 2 8 ELECTRICAL 1 8 1 3 CUTTER ACCESSORIES AND CONSUMABLES 1 9 1 4 REAR PANEL COMPONENTS 1 10 1 4 FRONT PANEL CONTROLS 1 12 1 5 POWERING UP THE CUTTER 1 14 1 5 1 EARTHING 1 14 1 6...

Page 6: ...6 2 2 1 ON LINE AND OFF LINE 2 6 2 2 2 LOCAL OPERATION 2 7 2 3 THE USER CONFIG MENU 2 8 2 3 1 KNIFE PRESSURE 2 10 2 3 2 KNIFE OFFSET 2 10 2 3 3 POUNCING PRESSURE 2 10 2 3 4 VELOCITY 2 10 2 3 5 OVERCU...

Page 7: ...8 OPOS SETTINGS 2 25 2 5 9 SYSTEM TESTS 2 25 2 6 SYSTEM TESTS 2 26 2 6 1 LANGUAGE 2 26 2 6 2 ROM REVISION 2 26 2 6 3 SERVICE PLOT 2 26 2 6 4 OPTICAL SENSOR 2 27 2 6 5 SENSOR SETUP 2 27 2 6 6 CALIBRATI...

Page 8: ...3 4 3 2 INSTALLING THE USB SOFTWARE UNDER WINDOWS 4 3 4 3 3 INSTALLING THE USB SOFTWARE FOR YOUR MACINTOSH 4 4 4 3 4 PARALLEL INTERFACE CONNECTOR ON CUTTER 4 5 5 CONTOUR CUTTING ON THE SUMMASIGN SERIE...

Page 9: ...LANGES 1 29 PINCH ROLLER POSITIONING 1 29 SUMMASIGN PRO SL T SERIES CONTROL PANEL 2 1 SUMMASIGN PRO SL T SERIES CONFIGURATION SUBMENUS 2 4 FLOWCHART SHOWING FACTORY PRESET MENU SETTINGS 2 9 INTERNAL T...

Page 10: ...ure a tangential head as indicated by the T prefix to the product designation This manual covers the following SummaSign Pro SL T series cutter models The SummaSign T750 SL which can handle media widt...

Page 11: ...trol panel Metric or English units User addressable resolution 0 1 mm 0 025 mm 0 001 or 0 005 Menu mode for selection of the cutter s power up operating configuration Convenient 2 line 16 character li...

Page 12: ...main components of the SummaSign Pro SL T series cutters Step by step instructions for knife and ballpoint pen installation and media loading Instructions for online and local mode operations Instruct...

Page 13: ...inch mm inch mm inch Width 70 to 762 2 7 to 30 120 to 1200 4 7 to 47 120 to 1545 4 7 to 60 170 to 1620 6 7 to 63 8 Maximum cutting width 703 27 7 995 39 2 1344 53 1575 62 Min margin left right 25 1 25...

Page 14: ...es cutters When using duly certified media operation in accordance with the functional specifications of the model is warranted Summa should certify other media before use to ensure performance in com...

Page 15: ...es 1 off 1 off Pen Color Quantity Ballpoint pen requires a ballpoint pen holder black 1 off 1 off Pouncing Tool Paper optional TABLE 1 3 SUMMASIGN PRO SL T SERIES KNIVES PENS AND POUNCING TOOLS To ord...

Page 16: ...t greater than 0 25 mm 0 010 Axial speed 50 to 1000 mm s 2 to 40 ips Default speed 800 mm s 32 ips Acceleration 3 G 3 G Addressable resolution 0 025 mm 0 1 mm 0 001 0 005 Default resolution 0 025 mm 0...

Page 17: ...an essential prerequisite to obtaining high cut quality Additionally media expansion or contraction may occur as a result of temperature variations To improve the dimensional stability of media allow...

Page 18: ...1184 Europe MC3545 US Serial Interface Cable 423 183 USB Cable 399 111 Tangetial knife holder 391 663 Standard tangential knife 1 off 390 549 Double tip knife 390 551 Standard nose piece 391 664 Tange...

Page 19: ...cutter read the following descriptions of the rear panel components Figure 1 1 shows the location of the main components 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 FIGURE 1 1 SUMMASIGN PRO SL T SERIES CUTTERS REAR VIE...

Page 20: ...eceives data will be the active interface until the cutter is reset 4 Power ON OFF switch This rocker switch turns the cutter on and off To switch the power ON press the I side of the rocker switch To...

Page 21: ...ch rollers during media loading media loading is discussed in Section 1 8 2 Media Drive Sleeves The media drive sleeves move the media only when the pinch rollers are in the down position The followin...

Page 22: ...t allows the cutter to accurately advance and retract the media The T1010 Pro SL and T1400 Pro SL cutters are provided with an extra low pressure roller in the middle to keep the vinyl media flat The...

Page 23: ...be of the earthed type The earth conductors serving said wall sockets must be properly connected to earth CAUTION Before plugging in the cutter s power cord to a power source make sure the cutter is...

Page 24: ...ic shock and will also lead to malfunctioning of the cutter 1 6 2 POWER UP PROCEDURE To power up the cutter proceed as follows 1 Be sure the cutter is either placed on a flat level and sturdy surface...

Page 25: ...IAL knife operation proceed as follows 1 As shown in Figure 1 4 insert the standard knife blade p n 390 549 into the knife holder Make sure the knife blade is firmly fixed in the holder The knife is i...

Page 26: ...d turn the knife holder counterclockwise until the alignment pin fits into the small notch of the tool shaft Now turn the knife holder clockwise until its threads take hold inside the tool shaft FIGUR...

Page 27: ...K ONLINE 1 45mm Press the jogging key until KNIFE PRESSURE is displayed KNIFE PRESSURE 120g 1 TEST Press the or key to modify the knife pressure Press the key to confirm the selection To increase the...

Page 28: ...lower knife pressure settings CAUTION After setting the cutting depth and or the knife pressure perform a thorough visual check of the knife blade which can be seen protruding from the knife holder T...

Page 29: ...moved manually from the knife holder To remove the blade push at the back of the blade with a screwdriver The blade will pop out of its holder FIGURE 1 9 BLADE ASSEMBLY 2 Insert the black nose piece a...

Page 30: ...g stencil or heavy materials it may be necessary to lower the cutting speed of the machine Very heavy materials should be cut at a speed of 100 mm s 4 ips to avoid an overcurrent error caused by overs...

Page 31: ...ol select Then press the left or right jogging key until DRAG KNIFE appears on the second line of the LCD Press ENTER and an asterisk will appear next to DRAG KNIFE This indicates that the DRAG KNIFE...

Page 32: ...ll the ballpoint pen proceed as follows 1 Remove the knife by turning the knife holder counterclockwise with one hand while holding the nose piece in place with the other hand 2 Remove the nose piece...

Page 33: ...gure the cutter for ballpoint pen operation press the key Press the left or right jogging key until BALLPOINT appears on the second line of the LCD Press ENTER and an asterisk will appear next to BALL...

Page 34: ...rclockwise with one hand while holding the nose piece in place with the other hand 2 Remove the nose piece refer to Fig 1 14 3 Insert the pouncing tool into the tool shaft 4 Insert the pouncing tool a...

Page 35: ...the pinch rollers can be moved manually left and right along the pinch roller shaft This way they can be easily positioned in a detent click position The cutter should not be used unless all needed p...

Page 36: ...e positioned halfway between the two outer rollers but always over one of the drive sleeves The center low pressure roller s on the T1010 SL T1400 SL and T1600 SL cutters can be in the raised disabled...

Page 37: ...cated anywhere between the two outer detent positions above the long drive sleeve This flexibility allows a variety of media widths to be accommodated Should the above procedure fail to work because t...

Page 38: ...t and right as needed along the media support rollers 5 The pinch rollers should be positioned over the drive sleeves and about 3 to 15 mm 0 1 to 0 6 in from the edges of the media FIGURE 1 18 PINCH R...

Page 39: ...o unroll the media manually from the roll The cutter will unroll the media automatically during the load sequence 7 The positioning and routing of sheet material is identical to that of roll media 8 T...

Page 40: ...re consisting of A media width measurement A 45 test A length of media is unwound equal to the width measured between the pinch rollers When the cutter indicates that it is ONLINE it is ready to recei...

Page 41: ...in can be repositioned to any location Press the key to confirm the selected point of origin The media length needed for a task can be entered by pressing the and jogging keys The XXXX value is the me...

Page 42: ...s now ready to receive a file 800mm s 120g K ONLINE 1 45mm The cutter has been selected by the computer When the built in media sensors detect the end of the roll the message END OF MEDIA will be disp...

Page 43: ...RATION 2 1 THE CONTROL PANEL Figure 2 1 shows the control panel of the SummaSign Pro SL T Series cutters The main functions of the liquid crystal display LCD and the control panel keys are explained i...

Page 44: ...SET LOAD KEY The key RESET LOAD is used to move the origin initiate a load sequence reset the cutter abort the cut in progress or recut the last file When the key RESET LOAD is pressed the cutter goes...

Page 45: ...will return the cutter to online status and the suspended operation will resume While the cutter is offline the following operations can be performed Press the or jogging key to move the tool carriag...

Page 46: ...r is on line it may then be selected by the host computer for a cutting or plotting operation or deselected by the host computer Pressing the or key will make the cutter go off line in order to initia...

Page 47: ...s used to go to the previous or next menu item 2 1 8 THE TOOL UP DOWN KEY The key TOOL UP DOWN is used while the cutter is offline to raise or lower the tool Pressing the key once will lower the tool...

Page 48: ...uration In all other cases the cutter is offline When online the cutter can be addressed by the host computer which means that the cutter will execute cutting or plotting instructions issued by the ho...

Page 49: ...Pressing any of these keys will suspend the current cutting plotting operation until the cutter is again put online 2 2 2 LOCAL OPERATION Local operation is only possible while the cutter is off line...

Page 50: ...il USER CONFIG 1 4 is displayed 3 Press the or jogging key until the desired configuration number is displayed next to USER CONFIG NOTE Before altering any of the items in the USER CONFIG menu make su...

Page 51: ...M SETUP SYSTEM SETUP CONCATINATION 0 DM PL ERRORS IGNORED SMOOTHING OFF HP GL ERRORS IGNORED EMULATE DM PL HP GL ORIGIN RIGHT FRONT TOOL DRAG KNIFE MEDIA SENSOR ON MENU UNITS METRIC AUTOLOAD ON ADDRES...

Page 52: ...d Some fine tuning may be necessary because of the knife s mechanical tolerances To verify the knife offset a test can be cut by pressing the 1 key If the offset value is set too low the rectangles wi...

Page 53: ...POUNCING GAP The pouncing gap submenu is used to set or modify the distance between the pounced holes Pouncing gap only applies when the machine is in pounce mode The default pouncing gap is 1 mm The...

Page 54: ...language The SummaSign Pro SL cutters support DM PL HP GL and HP GL 2 The active plotting language is marked with an asterisk on the LCD NOTE The cutter s active cutting plotting language MUST match...

Page 55: ...e menu units setting is marked with an 2 4 6 ADDRESSING The ADDRESSING submenu is used to select the cutter s default DM PL user addressable resolution The user addressable resolution can be set to 0...

Page 56: ...0 BIT 8 1 8 data bits no parity bit 8 high 1 EVEN 7 data bits 1 parity bit parity bit even ODD 7 data bits 1 parity bit parity bit odd The active parity setting is marked with an asterisk on the LCD...

Page 57: ...menu will only be displayed if PLOT LANGUAGE is set to HP GL See Paragraph 2 4 3 The HP GL ERRORS submenu can be set to REPORTED or IGNORED The feature is activated by selecting REPORTED and is normal...

Page 58: ...e select commands the P and SP commands respectively are ignored or accepted When the TOOL COMMAND option is set to ACCEPT the P or SP commands will change the selected tool in the cutter according to...

Page 59: ...of pressure Pressing the 1 key will activate the configuration menu which allows you to set the cutting pressure and cut length 1 CUT LENGTH This parameter determines the length that will be cut with...

Page 60: ...s displayed Press the key to exit all menus and return the cutter to online status INTERNAL TESTS INTERNAL TESTS CALIBRATE KNIFE INTERNAL TESTS LANGUAGE INTERNAL TESTS CUT BORDER INTERNAL TESTS ROM RE...

Page 61: ...ration errors may result from the following causes see Fig 2 5 Concentricity misalignment The knife tip is slightly rotated in relation to its theoretical 0 angle This error can be corrected by means...

Page 62: ...the ORIGIN test ADJUST ORIGIN 0 Press to execute the ORIGIN test This is the correctly cut test pattern Weed out the ring and compare the circle pattern cut in the vinyl with the circle pattern illus...

Page 63: ...line at the bottom to the center 2 runs from the horizontal line at the top to the center 3 runs from the center to the horizontal line at the top 4 runs from the center to the horizontal line at the...

Page 64: ...plementary test has been added to fine tune the LAT adjustment Press the 2 key to perform the vertical test shown above All the squares should be identical Press the key to go to the next step of the...

Page 65: ...rn looks like the one above increase the value displayed on the LCD by pressing the jogging key to correct the closing lines cut To repeat the test press the key Press the key to repeat the calibratio...

Page 66: ...rder to provide other users with details about the unit s actual configurations 2 5 4 CONFIDENCE CUT The CONFIDENCE cut performs an electrical and mechanical test of the cutter to make sure that the c...

Page 67: ...d to calibrate the Optical Positioning System OPOS This calibration is normally done at the factory When the system is no longer working precisely a calibration test must be performed Calibration dete...

Page 68: ...w setting The information on the LCD can be displayed in English French German Spanish Italian or Dutch 2 6 2 ROM REVISION Press the key to view information about the cutter s ROM revision This inform...

Page 69: ...al measurement indicates 105 mm then 105 mm can be entered for that particular line by which the system will be calibrated 2 6 7 RS232 TEST The RS232 TEST verifies the cutter s RS 232 C serial communi...

Page 70: ...alibrate the knife and pen pressures and to set the knife and pen landings After calibration the values are saved in the system s non volatile RAM A tension gauge of 100 gr and 500 gr is required to e...

Page 71: ...action as the media will tend to slip between the pinch rollers and the drive sleeves To clean the drive sleeves proceed as follows 1 First disable the sensors through the cutter s control panel or by...

Page 72: ...become dirty with accumulated residue from the media that may cause the cutter to malfunction To clean the sensor area proceed as follows 1 The sensors are located on the right side of the cutter one...

Page 73: ...turning the knife holder counterclockwise 2 Observe the orientation of the nose piece and then push it out of its holder 3 Remove any remaining vinyl residue using a brush or a pair of tweezers 4 Repl...

Page 74: ...supplied to your site you must change the voltage BEFORE powering on the cutter When changing the voltage setting you will also have to change the fuses as appropriate for the voltage To change the f...

Page 75: ...eives data first will stay active and the others will be deactivated The deactivated ports can only be reactivated by restarting the cutter Connecting more than one of the three communication cables t...

Page 76: ...f you are making your own cable only a few of the cutter s pins will actually need to be connected to the host computer To ensure optimal results the cable length should not exceed 4 8 m 16 feet It sh...

Page 77: ...ctor Plug the other end of the cable into the computer s USB interface connector 3 The computer should find the new USB device and ask for the driver Insert the Summa Cutter CD Manuals and Drivers CD...

Page 78: ...once installation is complete Next to the cutter s USB connector is a small light emitting diode LED that will either be on blinking or off If the LED is off then the cutter and the computer are not c...

Page 79: ...a 2 21 Ground 4 Data 3 22 Ground 5 Data 4 23 Ground Pin n Definition Pin n Definition 6 Data 5 24 Ground 7 Data 6 25 Ground 8 Data 7 26 Ground 9 Data 8 27 Ground 10 Acknowledge 28 Ground 11 Busy 29 Gr...

Page 80: ...of the User s Manual An alphabetic list of all duly certified media is included below Please consult your local Summa representative before using non certified media Manufacturer Type 3 M Scotchcal Se...

Page 81: ...s Cutters User s Manual Appendix A 2 MACTAC MaCal 8900 MaCal 9700 MaCal 9800 MULTIFIX Series 1000 Series 5000 Series 7000 MULTISTIQ Series 4500 Series 4600 Series 4700 PMF 500 600 700 Series TESA Tesa...