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Roland DG Announces New Generation of
CAMM-1 Professional Vinyl Cutters,
Delivering Best-In-Class Features
and Productivity
Roland DG Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wide-format
inkjet printers, printer/cutters and vinyl cutters worldwide, today
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 best-in-class cutting
quality and productivity due to increased accuracy, speed, media
versatility and additional state-of-the-art 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 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.
Shinomura 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.”
pinch rollers that can adjust the pressure to 10 pre-set 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. Roland
CutStudio includes plug-in software that allows outputting from
Adobe® Illustrator® and CorelDRAW®. A media basket is provided
to collect cut sheets.
“Since 1988,” Shinomura said, “Roland DG has sold more than
440,000 vinyl cutters. The GR series has been developed with
the aim of delivering class-leading cutting quality and productivity
based on all the technological achievements our company
previously established while adding an entirely fresh layer of
innovation. I am positive that the GR series will boost the quality
and efficiency of customers’ work, and provide ample capability
for expanding their business opportunities. Roland DG will continue
to hone its expertise with cutting applications and provide
customers with products that deliver unparalleled value to a broad
range of industries.”
To meet the variety of applications and materials required by today’s
cutting industry, the GR series is equipped with electronic
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