Attaching the cutter guard
The cutter guard is used to prevent the sheet from lifting up.
It is recommended that the cutter guard be attached if the sheet may be damaged by the cutter due to the sheet lifting during cutting.
- Turn off the machine power supply before attaching or removing the cutter guard.
- Attaching the cutter guard reduces the size of the gap below the carriage. Remove the cutter guard if it prevents loading of thick sheets.
Attaching the cutter guard
- Remove the carriage cover.
- Remove the screw on the front of the carriage cover.
- Do not to lose this screw.
- Lower the carriage cover.
- Pull the carriage cover diagonally out toward you, then detach from the lugs.
- Insert the cutter guard into the pen shaft.
- Rotate the cutter guard and engage the protrusion into the slot in the yoke-bracket.
- Push in until it engages with a click.
- Reattach the carriage cover.
- Mount the carriage cover diagonally, engaging the two holes in the carriage cover on to the two lugs on the machine.
- Lower the carriage cover until it is vertical, making sure it does not detach from the lugs.
- Lift the carriage cover to push it into the lugs.
- Reattach the screw into the screw hole in the carriage cover.
- If the screw hole is not aligned, remove and reattach the cover.
Removing the cutter guard
- Remove the pen-type cutter.
- Remove the carriage cover.
- Remove the cutter guard from the pen shaft.
- Reattach the carriage cover.
