HP 54 Basic Cutter User Manual page 40

Media alignment
Align load is a special loading procedure to register markers, so that pre-printed jobs can be contour-cut. This
parameter is explained in
Settings
Velocity
This menu groups all the parameters that affect the throughput of the cutter. The velocity and acceleration
settings are explained in
Overcut
The Overcut submenu enables you to generate an overcut to facilitate weeding the cut. Each time the knife goes
up or down, the cutter cuts a bit further. The illustration below shows what overcut can do with a tangential
knife. A sample cutout with a drag knife would show fewer overcuts as there would be fewer up/downs (usually
only one per curve/letter). The overcut setting can be disabled (=0) or set to any value between 0 (=off) and 10.
One unit is about 0.1 mm (0.004 in).
Press . Use
set to 1.
OptiCut
OptiCut improves the cutting quality if the knife is worn out or not calibrated correctly.
Press . Use
default.
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Register the markers on page
Set the cutting speed on page
or to change the value. Press
or to set OptiCut on or off. Press
29.
20.
to confirm or to cancel. The default overcut is
to confirm or to cancel. OptiCut is off by
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