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US 10,016,905 B2Granted
Cutting apparatus, cutting method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorHisayuki Kobayashi
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Abstract
A cutting apparatus includes a blade relatively movable with respect to a media to cut the media along a cutting line. The blade is so constructed to pre-cut the media along the cutting line to leave non-cutting portions and to cut the non-cutting portions after pre-cutting the media.
Claims9
A method for controlling a cutting plotter, comprising:
- moving a blade in a first direction parallel to a surface of a medium and moving the medium forward and backward in a second direction crossing the first direction and parallel to the surface of the medium to relatively move the blade along a cutting line having a pair of farthest points in the second direction on the medium to pre-cut the medium along the cutting line to leave non-cutting portions having a first non-cutting portion positioned closest to a first farthest point of the pair of farthest points;
- relatively moving the blade and the medium to position the blade at the first non-cutting portion;
- cutting the first non-cutting portion;
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- moving the blade in the first direction and moving the medium only forward or only backward in the second direction from the first farthest point to a second farthest point of the pair of farthest points to position the blade at each of the non-cutting portions so that all of the non-cutting portions are cut off after cutting the first non-cutting portion.
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