Roland DG has added GR-640/540/420 vinyl cutters to its Camm-1 series. They will be demonstrated at Sign and Digital UK 2017.
According to Yohei Shinomura, product manager of Roland DG’s digital printing business, the GR series has been redesigned from the ground up for increased accuracy, speed, media versatility and for improved cutting features.
Roland said the ergonomic L-shaped design of the integrated stand and machine provides the stability required for precision cutting at high speed. The redesigned cutting carriage, blade holder and other core mechanisms enable the machines to achieve a maximum cutting speed of 1,485mm/s and up to 600g of downforce for cutting through difficult media with a single pass. Models are available in 1,651mm, 1,397mm and 1,075mm cutting widths to allow users to pair them with the inkjet printers they are currently using.
The GR series is equipped with electronic pinch rollers that can adjust the pressure to 10 pre-set levels to feed any thickness of media. An overlap cutting function allows for up to ten times overlap cutting for difficult-to-cut substrates, while an intuitive overcut function emulates the results from a tangential cutter for sharp, clean corners on challenging media.
The cutters are capable of reading crop marks on pre-printed data and 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. A media basket is provided to collect cut sheets.