A guaranteed precision area, written into the spec

Graphtec does not just say “accurate”, it gives you an area: 1,352 × 10,000 mm on the FC9000-140, or 762 × 15,000 mm in narrow width. Beyond that area the machine keeps going — up to 50 m — but the guarantee stops there, and that is honest information to have before quoting a twelve-metre shop sign.

Auto-panelling against drift

A very long job is automatically split into successive panels, with a shorter feed length on each pass. The media never gets the time to skew: that is what lets you go past the guaranteed length without losing the cut line.

The take-up unit, which pushes the limit to 20 m

The OPH-A43 automatic take-up unit, optional on the -140, winds the media as it goes instead of letting it pile up. Graphtec then guarantees precision over 20 m for jobs under 1.2 m wide. This is the option that changes the picture in banner production.

Four pinch rollers, and compensation on both axes

Four pinch rollers on the -140, five as an option: the roll stays held across its full width. And segment area compensation now works on X and Y, where the previous generation only corrected X.

Shop signs and fascias

Lettering and fascia banners several metres long, often in a single piece. A two-millimetre drift over eight metres is visible from the pavement across the street.

Window graphics and store decoration

Micro-perforated and frosted films, contour-cut stickers. The constraint is not size, it is repetition: twenty storefronts in the same chain have to come out identical.

Vehicle wrapping

Long runs, a pattern that has to line up from one panel to the next, and expensive films. This is the use case where one scrapped piece costs hundreds of euros — the 60° CB09UB-K60 blade is designed for these films.

Large-format signage

Safety signage, wayfinding panels, high-intensity reflective films. Media that most registration sensors read poorly — and that ARMS 8.0 reads.

01Registration marks on every media

The sensor algorithm has been reworked for holographic and reflective media and for colour-printed marks. These are exactly the high-value materials — safety signage, premium wrapping, speciality stickers — so exactly the ones where scrap costs the most.

Graphtec video — multiple registration mark adjustment, from placement to reading.

02Barcode data management

A dedicated BARCODE key on the panel: the machine reads the code printed on the media and finds the matching cut file on its own, on the PC or on a USB stick. In continuous cutting it runs different files one after another on the same roll.

Graphtec video — continuous cutting driven by barcode.

03Segment area compensation on both axes

X and Y, with an adjustable middle mark — where the older generation only compensated X. The middle mark becomes available on the Y axis as soon as the gap between marks exceeds 600 mm. This is the function that holds the cut line over long runs.

Graphtec video — segment area compensation on X and Y.

04Cutting outside the registration area

Expanded Cutting Area cuts objects that sit outside the rectangle defined by the marks. You print tighter on the roll and throw away less media. Over a ten-metre run, the margin saved eventually adds up to one more piece.

Graphtec video — cutting beyond the registration area.

Entry level

CE8000 series

Three widths — 375, 603 and 1,270 mm — for a workshop starting out in cutting, or wanting a second machine for smaller jobs. ARMS and wireless LAN as standard, 4.41 N of force. The right choice when the volume does not yet justify an FC9000.

Flatbed tables

FCX2000 and FCX4000

Flatbed cutting tables for rigid materials: board, foam, rubber, up to 2 mm depending on the substrate. Packaging prototyping and short runs, with no cutting die to have made. Two tools at once, blade and creasing.