Gerber P2C™ 1600 Cutters
User’s Manual
Operation
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2.1.1 THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY
The 32-character liquid crystal display (LCD) consists of two lines of 16
characters each. The LCD provides cutter status information during operations
and displays menu options for the configuration of the cutter.
The contrast of the LCD can be adjusted from the control panel in order to
ensure optimum readability under varying lighting conditions.
Instructions for adjusting the LCD contrast are given in Section 2.6.11.
The various menu and submenu items are always presented in a loop. When
the last item in the menu is displayed, pressing the appropriate key will
automatically take you back to the first item in the same menu or submenu.
Next to the status messages and/or menu options displayed on the LCD, arrow
symbols representing the
,
,
, and
jogging keys and the
key will tell you what keys to press to go to the next menu item (top line of the
display) or to the next value for a given submenu item (bottom line of the
display).
2.1.2 THE RESET/LOAD KEY
The
key (RESET/LOAD)
is
used to move the origin, initiate a load sequence,
reset the cutter, abort the cut in progress
or recut the last file. When the
key (RESET/LOAD) is pressed, the cutter goes offline, suspends all operations in
progress, and displays the RESET/LOAD menu. Press the
key until SET
ORIGIN, LOAD, RESET, ABORT, SPECIAL LOAD or RECUT is displayed. To confirm
RESET, ABORT or RECUT, press the
key
(ENTER). To execute the SET ORIGIN
instruction, move the knife origin using the
,
,
, and
jogging
keys and then press
the
key
(ENTER) to confirm the new origin position.
Press the
1
or
2
key to initiate a load sequence for a ROLL or SHEET, respectively.
Press
the
key
(ENTER) to initiate the SPECIAL LOAD instruction. Then position
the knife tip directly over the origin-marker using the jogging keys. The cutter
will return to ONLINE status should any of these instructions be terminated.
The SET ORIGIN instruction is used to move the knife origin.
The LOAD instruction is used to initiate a load sequence.
The RESET instruction performs a complete reset of the cutter.
The ABORT instruction simply cancels the cut in progress. Aborting a cut will not
reset the cutter parameters; the parameters that had been selected for the cut
remain in effect.
