Roland PNC-5000 Pausing Operations, Removing and Reloading Printed Material for Cutting

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5 Basic Operation

5-7 Pausing Operations

If you want to stop the PNC-5000 momentarily while it is printing or cutting, follow the procedure described below.

1

Press the PAUSE key.

 

The PAUSE LED lights up

Printing or cutting is paused.

2

To resume printing or cutting

 

To Terminate printing or cutting

 

 

Press the PAUSE key.

 

1) Halt transmission of printing or cutting instructions

 

 

 

 

from the computer.

The PAUSE LED

 

2) Press the SETUP key.

 

 

goes out

 

The SETUP LED goes out

Printing or cutting is resumes.

 

Printing or cutting instructions already sent

 

from the computer to the PNC-5000 are

 

 

 

 

 

 

deleted, and operation stops.

 

 

 

 

5-8 Removing and Reloading Printed Material for Cutting

1

Switch off the power, and set DIP switch SW-9 to ON.

2

Switch on the power, load the

alignment tool, ribbon

cartridge, and material, then press the SETUP key.

(The alignment tool is installed on the cutting carriage in the same way as a blade holder.)

3

Send the printing data from

 

the computer.

Rear

Before data output begins, two crop

Front

marks are automatically printed on the

 

left and right areas at the front edge of

 

the material.

 

4

When printing is finished press the SETUP key, remove the material and carry

out lamination (or whatever further processing needs to be done).

When done, reload the material in the same position used for printing, and press the SETUP key. (The SETUP LED goes out.)

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2)Set the align point Use the cursor keys to move the tip of the alignment tool to the square crop mark at the lower left area of the material, then press the ALIGN POINT SET key.

The ALIGN POINT SET LED lights up

Rear

 

Front

2)

1)

1)Set the base point Use the cursor keys to move the tip of the alignment tool to the square crop mark at the lower right area of the material, then press the BASE POINT SET key.

The BASE POINT SET LED lights up

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Remove the alignment tool from the cutting carriage and install a blade.

 

 

 

 

 

7

Send the cutting data from the computer.

 

 

 

NOTICE

When reloading material, be sure to make the settings described above. Crop marks or other marks that have been set with application software cannot be used.

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Contents Page 1996 Table of Contents Typographic Conventions To Ensure Safe UseAbout the Labels Affixed to the Unit To Ensure Correct UseChecking Supplied Items Part Names and FunctionsFront View Rear ViewOperation Panel Set-up and Connections Here’s What the PNC-5000 Can DoSet-up and Connections / 4 What the PNC-5000 Can Do DIP Switch Settings Powering OnBasic Operation Basic OperationInstalling/Removing a Blade Adjusting the Cutter BladeBlade adjustment may be necessary when Installing a Ribbon Cartridge If the Pause LED and POWER/ERROR LED blink simultaneouslyRemove Excess Slack from the Ink Ribbon Changing the ribbon cartridge while printing is in progressWhen using roll material Loading/Removing the MaterialDownloading Printing/Cutting Data Pausing Operations Removing and Reloading Printed Material for CuttingTo Terminate printing or cutting Powering Off Cutting Test to Check Cutter ForcePerforming a Self-test Printing and Cutting Samples Removing the blank space surrounding a pictureAdding color to a border Correcting Line PitchAbout the Printing/Cutting Area About the BladeNo good Care and Maintenance What to Do IfSoftware What to Do IfIs the ribbon cartridge installed correctly? Has the ink ribbon been used up?B3010896BE R3-1