Vinyl Cutter Not Cutting Straight

Make certain you are using the correct sign vinyl film.

Vinyl cutter not cutting straight.

Since most cutters do not have an auto unroll feature they will pull on the heavy roll of vinyl at their usual working speed. Not cutting straight or skipping. Solid lines are not cut at a constant depth. After several jobs on your vinyl cutter you may begin to experience some common cutting problems including jagged edges and corners not cutting sharply.

The offset cut pressure is too low. Sometimes the issue isn t incomplete cuts or weird corners. If you have tried everything above and your cutting issue is still not resolved contact cricut support. Once clean perform a test cut.

If the blade and housing are already free from debris or cleaning it did not help proceed to step 3. Vinyl cutter not completing cut. Raise the offset cut pressure setting the offset cut pressure is separate from the cutting force the blade skips and does not completely cut lines that should be solid. The most extreme example of blaming the wrong thing is when crafters reinstall the software in an attempt to fix a bad cut that is not the solution to a cutting problem.

Open the manage custom materials page through the account menu and increase the pressure for your material setting by 2 4 then perform a test cut. The snapping that results could have a disastrous effect on tracking. If you manage to get the thin fonts or smaller script words to cut correctly try reverse weeding to make it easier to transfer if you are using vinyl. It might be the solution if the computer and cutter are not communicating although even in that case reinstalling the driver should be tried first.

Do not permit your cutter to pull vinyl off from a heavy 50 yard roll. Everything else may be just fine but your machine is cutting the lines so that they are jagged and not cutting completely straight as they should be.