New generation Camm-1 vinyl cutters at Sign & Digital

Print Solutions

Roland DG has announced the launch of the GR-640/540/420 professional vinyl cutters, the latest additions to its Camm-1 series.

According to Yohei Shinomura, product manager of Roland DG’s digital printing business, the GR series has been completely redesigned from the ground up to deliver leading cutting quality and productivity due to increased accuracy, speed, media versatility and additional cutting features. The new ergonomic L shaped design of the integrated stand and machine provides the stability required to ensure precision cutting even at high speed. The redesigned cutting carriage, blade holder and other core mechanisms enable the machines to achieve a maximum cutting speed of 1485mm per second and up to 600 g of downforce for cutting through difficult media with a single pass. Models are available in 1651 mm, 1397 mm and 1075 mm cutting widths to allow users to pair them with the inkjet printers they are currently using.

He said, ‘The cutting industry has become increasingly diverse. In addition to sign making, cutting now includes the production of window and vehicle graphics, window tinting and car protection film for automotive restyling, personalised apparel, labels and decals, packaging prototypes, paint/sandblast stencils and more. The breadth of applications demands the ability to handle a wide range of materials of varying thicknesses, such as window films, high intensity reflective materials, heat transfer materials including flock and glitter, cardboard, and sandblast mask.’

To meet the variety of applications and materials required by today’s cutting industry, the GR series is equipped with electronic pinch rollers that can adjust the pressure to 10 preset levels at the touch of a button for smooth feeding of any media thickness. The overlap cutting function allows for up to ten times overlap cutting for difficult to cut substrates. The intuitive overcut function emulates the results from a tangential cutter and delivers sharp, clean corners on challenging media.

A host of innovations make the GR series extremely easy to use. The cutters are capable of reading crop marks on pre-printed data to accurately align graphics. The bundled Roland CutStudio features a perforating cutting function that is convenient for making die cut effect stickers and decals, and a cut by colour function that is useful when outputting designs with multiple coloured sheets. A new function automatically creates weed lines for more efficient weeding after designs have been cut. CutStudio includes plug-in software that allows outputting from Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. A media basket is provided to collect cut sheets.

The new Camm-1 GR Series will be at Sign & Digital UK 2017 on the Roland DG stand (H30).