as a firmware and software engineer i don't understand why they didn't program the registration marks to be closer to the edges in order not to waste space for the decals especially that there is a matte already which can serve as the margin so theoretically it should even be possible to cut very close to the edges. because there is also such thing as borderless printing. poor programming in my opinion.
For me, the calibration tests were good everytime, but when I was trying to cut a print, it was off few centimeters, as soon as I disabled that stupid media sensor, it worked perfectly
I heard such good things about the 3 and I got a 4 pro. And holy crap its been a nightmare. I will try to remember to report back but its the biggest waste of money I have ever spent in my ENTIRE life. Hoping this video helps me with fixing it, if not well. I guess a fool is parted with his $500. I am with you though, I am never buying a silhouette product again.
Besides your demonstration for calibration issues, I too had the same problem and more. I had the Silhouette 4 Plus and returned it. Cameo 4 , Plus, and pro have WiFi issues, always disconnect. Reading the register marks failed often. If you don’t have good lighting the marks can’t be read by the machine. Software will crash often when doing test cuts, Windows or Mac version. When cameo does cut it will do it well. But, this isn’t often. The fact is Silhosette products are poorly made and the company knows it. It’s all about cutting cost. I will stick with Cricut Maker and Brother Scan & Cut 125e, best of both worlds. Yes, Cricut and Brother may of some cons but nothing to compared it by with all the issues Sihouette Cameo 4 has. So, would I recommend any of the Cameo 4 models, absolutely not. If anyone decides to buy the Cameo 4 I wished them best of luck not wasting time getting things to work in order to finish one project.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Little quirks the other machines have are nothing compared to Silhouette Cameo 4's issues. The only saving grace Silhouette has is Silhouette Studio, but doesn't make up for its machines. I was trying to do a print and cut last live I did, and the machine was trying to do something totally different... and I thought I understood this toy lol. Didn't make any sense. Had to restart the computer and the machine before it desided to work. The problems this machine has will never end apparently.
I wish I read this before, it was so frustrating with the print and cut, it always hits and misses. They said it has an error margin of 1.5mm, that's a lot on small prints. The horizontal axis is not even perpendicular
Thanks for the video, I'm gonna try calibrating my Silhouette Portrait. I noticed offsets are becoming more and more "off" and it's frustrating. I've tried using a lamp, restarting, using manual registration stuff, still annoying and awful lol. Wish me luck
Best of luck! It can be done, just takes patience. These machines are frustrating and very expensive for outdated tech, but they do the job. Next cutter I invest in will have a built in camera to insure contour cuting features are super precise lol
@@northernferrycustomization An update: it was the light I had in my room that was throwing it off! By the time I figured out it wasn't a calibration issue, I used your technique/s to calibrate it perfectly lol when the lighting was fixed. Haha thank you!
This was really helpful! My sister and I spent an hour last night trying to figure out the calibration (she's had the cameo 4 over a year and has never calibrated woops). Anyway we ended up giving up after an hour... Christmas Eve fun Would love a video for the adjustments on screen - we are both visual learners. We got the lining things up part down pat, now it's just "what are we actually doing on screen" part (that's when we gave up lol). Also wondering if it ever needs recalibrating? I know nothing about these machines, just trying to print and cut stickers for my planner haha
I only recalibrate mine when it it decides to not cut in the right spot anymore. Next time I recalibrate, which I have not had to do since this video, I'll go deeper into what you are changing when messing with the X Y calibration. Thank you for the story and input!
it doesnt cut when i calibrate. im not using any matte because i dont have any but i know im still able to cut stickers and i did cut stickers without. so is it impossible to calibrate without matte? had lots of issues with the cameo including it occasionally not being detected. quite a pain, i would never recommend a cameo to anyone. cricuts are far more superior.
Hello, I've done calibrating my silhouette cameo 4, but how do you save the calibrate settings? I wanted to do a cut test and cut other design when I'm done with the calibration, but it won't allow me to do so and the calibrate cutting options kept popping up at the send option. The only way for me to able cut other design is by closing the silhouette software, and it just return back to square and my problem of not cutting the design properly just repeats again. Help please. 😢😢😢
hey i had this issue too. What fixed it for me was the light. my shop had to much light which didnt allow the cameo to pick up on the registration marks. all i did was close the lid on it and bam. worked out fine. this was specific to my case but maybe it could help you too.
Thank you for the input! Yes they are picky about light. The angle of the paper as it sits on a mat can cause a registration error as well, I have to hold it up so the mat sits flat as it reads the first registration mark. I am still using my Silhouette, mostly because I already have my money invested into it, but will be upgrading someday to something that has a camera contour cut feature.
You do an excellent job at explaining but I just can't seem to get it right, when I use the arrows to line up the printed sheet, it scans but doesn't cut. I've used Cricut for 2+ years and the calibration here is a nightmare :(
So it won't cut on the calibration sheet or when you are trying to cut a project? Yes, the cameo 4 is a pain, I will not be buying another silhouette product myself unless they make it more user friendly, and better tolerances.
@@northernferrycustomization on the calibration sheet. I finally managed to get a cut, but it’s way off. I got it for large print and cut projects and it seems like as of now I’ll only be using it for regular cutting 😪
@Learco you are adjust right and left and up and down it should not throw any of them off because the print is a known size to the software. You want to get it to where they're all is closed as possible.
would it not be wise to do the distance calibration before doing the Cut calibration? i believe that the cut calibration is only to calibrate your Printer to the Cutter not calibrate the machine. so when you do the cut calibration it will look perfect but when doing a normal cut the detection markers are only in the corners of the print, so if the distance is off the cut will "drift" because the number of steps per 200mm of travel is not quite right.
Thank you for watching, hopefully I can answer your question. When running this calibration you are calibrating Silhouette Studio to the Silhouette, so it cuts where you intend it to. Calibrating ones printer would depend on make and model of the Printer (please follow your printers manufacturers recommended procedures for calibrating ones printer). My printer is an Epson Stylus Pro 7600 wide format printer, and is calibrated to print exactly what the screen shows. The Silhouette graphs it's trajectory based off the registration marks, translated to a path given by the software, as you postulated in your question. So one is telling the software where your machine actually cut, so the software can make the adjustments to the path it gives the Silhouette. The 200 mm adjustment scale I adjust with the printed circles AFTER adjusting using the manufacturer's recommended calibration method. This calibration is on offset of travel left to right, and up to down. I find fine tuning this adjustment with an actual cut job gives me the best results. The cross hair calibration shown is for calibration of the optical eye and blade, also known as setting a zero. Hope this helps!
Ya that calibration seams very counter intuitive. The cameo does not print so not sure why they call it print and cut. I want to get a tracker feed type cutter and not sure what I would buy but not going to buy a cheap one that I have to toy with. a Gerber maybe ?
Not sure what you mean by tracker feed cutter, the cameo will cut very long rolls. If you are looking for soming that combines both printing and cutting, than Roland has a great reputation. If you are just looking for something like this but far easier, Siser Romeo is a great cutter. Cricut just came out with a high end 24in cutter as well.
Idk what to know I am having so many problems it's won't cut my right side of words. Using 651 oracle. I barely got it to cut at all. The company making me send videos etc.. they don't wanna help.
I feel your frustration, there are so many quirks to these machines. I feel they are way too complicated and underdeveloped for the market they are trying to capture. There are cheaper machines with far more precision, actual cameras that give insane accuracy contour cutting, and they are selling this for 500 with $20+ blades... I felt cheated and I only paid 350 second hand.
Heey I don't know if you can help me, but the problem I have is the when I cut stickers without the mat it feeds the page all the way to the back when registering and can't register properly.
It could have to do with many different settings or just the alignmentof the paper. I have had it do this when I didn't have the correct size paper selected, lined it up with the wrong alignment line, or forgot to turn off the mat in Silhouette Studio (if the software thinks you are cutting with a mat it doesn't look in the right spot). Sometimes the automatic registration just doesn't feel like working properly, in this case I have to manually register it. Are you using a a silhouette cameo 4, plus, or pro? They all have their individual quirks.
I am using a 4 pro, and I made sure it is without a cutting mat and the correct paper size yet it sill happens, and it didn't happen before which is weird.
@@nestorismaelflores3625 that is strange. I would manually register. On the cut menu it has a picture of the machine. Right click on that and you will see the option to manually register. Once selected you will hit send and it will say register. Put the cutting tool, not the reading eye, above the first square registration mark and click register. This will initiate the reading. If that doesn't work if use a mat. I do stickers all the time with mats. It is a little time consuming but works well.
In this video, I was using an aftermarket CB09 blade housing. It is like a manual blade with fine adjustment. It was deep enough to cut paper, so it was probably equivalent to a 1 on any Silhouette blade
No, I ordered it off of etsy. The person I bought mine from no longer 3d prints them, though there are many who do. I actually have 2 different sizes for the Cameo Pro. The other one lines up with the far left line on the Cameo Pro for using the 24in mat.
I'll be making a video about everything that can be making it off slightly soon... these machines are so far from user friendly it hurts my head. What I check first every time mine messes up: 1. Did I have a mat or not in design prior to printing. (If changed after printing it changes the registration mark locations. So if I decide to use a mat after printing, just use Manually registration. It won't know the difference. 2. Print page setup. (Mine was originally set to A4 instead of my 8.5x11. This messed up how it printed and cut for some reason. 3. Try manually registration. (Auto registration is so unreliable on these machines, though when it works, it is awesome.) 4. Unplug Cameo and run blade carrier to the far right and back 3 time, ending all the way to the left. (This resets the machines zero when turned back on.) Hope one of these are causing your machine to be off, and not have to run the calibration again.
as a firmware and software engineer i don't understand why they didn't program the registration marks to be closer to the edges in order not to waste space for the decals especially that there is a matte already which can serve as the margin so theoretically it should even be possible to cut very close to the edges. because there is also such thing as borderless printing. poor programming in my opinion.
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Praise the lord! Finally someone shows me where to find the calibration option! Thank you!
For me, the calibration tests were good everytime, but when I was trying to cut a print, it was off few centimeters, as soon as I disabled that stupid media sensor, it worked perfectly
Media sensor???
I heard such good things about the 3 and I got a 4 pro. And holy crap its been a nightmare. I will try to remember to report back but its the biggest waste of money I have ever spent in my ENTIRE life. Hoping this video helps me with fixing it, if not well. I guess a fool is parted with his $500.
I am with you though, I am never buying a silhouette product again.
Did you ever get it figured out? I just got the pro and I'm having so many issues with print and cut.
Excellent Work & Problem solved just 10 Mints
thanks for the video. I was doing something slightly different but a few things you mentioned helped.
Besides your demonstration for calibration issues, I too had the same problem and more. I had the Silhouette 4 Plus and returned it. Cameo 4 , Plus, and pro have WiFi issues, always disconnect. Reading the register marks failed often. If you don’t have good lighting the marks can’t be read by the machine. Software will crash often when doing test cuts, Windows or Mac version. When cameo does cut it will do it well. But, this isn’t often. The fact is Silhosette products are poorly made and the company knows it. It’s all about cutting cost. I will stick with Cricut Maker and Brother Scan & Cut 125e, best of both worlds. Yes, Cricut and Brother may of some cons but nothing to compared it by with all the issues Sihouette Cameo 4 has. So, would I recommend any of the Cameo 4 models, absolutely not. If anyone decides to buy the Cameo 4 I wished them best of luck not wasting time getting things to work in order to finish one project.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Little quirks the other machines have are nothing compared to Silhouette Cameo 4's issues. The only saving grace Silhouette has is Silhouette Studio, but doesn't make up for its machines. I was trying to do a print and cut last live I did, and the machine was trying to do something totally different... and I thought I understood this toy lol. Didn't make any sense. Had to restart the computer and the machine before it desided to work. The problems this machine has will never end apparently.
I wish I read this before, it was so frustrating with the print and cut, it always hits and misses. They said it has an error margin of 1.5mm, that's a lot on small prints. The horizontal axis is not even perpendicular
Thank you, this worked great.
Thanks for the video, I'm gonna try calibrating my Silhouette Portrait. I noticed offsets are becoming more and more "off" and it's frustrating. I've tried using a lamp, restarting, using manual registration stuff, still annoying and awful lol. Wish me luck
Best of luck! It can be done, just takes patience. These machines are frustrating and very expensive for outdated tech, but they do the job. Next cutter I invest in will have a built in camera to insure contour cuting features are super precise lol
@@northernferrycustomization An update: it was the light I had in my room that was throwing it off! By the time I figured out it wasn't a calibration issue, I used your technique/s to calibrate it perfectly lol when the lighting was fixed.
Haha thank you!
This was really helpful! My sister and I spent an hour last night trying to figure out the calibration (she's had the cameo 4 over a year and has never calibrated woops). Anyway we ended up giving up after an hour... Christmas Eve fun
Would love a video for the adjustments on screen - we are both visual learners. We got the lining things up part down pat, now it's just "what are we actually doing on screen" part (that's when we gave up lol).
Also wondering if it ever needs recalibrating? I know nothing about these machines, just trying to print and cut stickers for my planner haha
I only recalibrate mine when it it decides to not cut in the right spot anymore. Next time I recalibrate, which I have not had to do since this video, I'll go deeper into what you are changing when messing with the X Y calibration. Thank you for the story and input!
it doesnt cut when i calibrate. im not using any matte because i dont have any but i know im still able to cut stickers and i did cut stickers without. so is it impossible to calibrate without matte? had lots of issues with the cameo including it occasionally not being detected. quite a pain, i would never recommend a cameo to anyone. cricuts are far more superior.
Hello, I've done calibrating my silhouette cameo 4, but how do you save the calibrate settings? I wanted to do a cut test and cut other design when I'm done with the calibration, but it won't allow me to do so and the calibrate cutting options kept popping up at the send option. The only way for me to able cut other design is by closing the silhouette software, and it just return back to square and my problem of not cutting the design properly just repeats again. Help please. 😢😢😢
hey i had this issue too. What fixed it for me was the light. my shop had to much light which didnt allow the cameo to pick up on the registration marks. all i did was close the lid on it and bam. worked out fine. this was specific to my case but maybe it could help you too.
Thank you for the input! Yes they are picky about light. The angle of the paper as it sits on a mat can cause a registration error as well, I have to hold it up so the mat sits flat as it reads the first registration mark. I am still using my Silhouette, mostly because I already have my money invested into it, but will be upgrading someday to something that has a camera contour cut feature.
You do an excellent job at explaining but I just can't seem to get it right, when I use the arrows to line up the printed sheet, it scans but doesn't cut. I've used Cricut for 2+ years and the calibration here is a nightmare :(
So it won't cut on the calibration sheet or when you are trying to cut a project? Yes, the cameo 4 is a pain, I will not be buying another silhouette product myself unless they make it more user friendly, and better tolerances.
@@northernferrycustomization on the calibration sheet. I finally managed to get a cut, but it’s way off. I got it for large print and cut projects and it seems like as of now I’ll only be using it for regular cutting 😪
But if some crosses are right and some are off, if you correct the one that are off aren’t you going to screw the right one?
@Learco you are adjust right and left and up and down it should not throw any of them off because the print is a known size to the software. You want to get it to where they're all is closed as possible.
would it not be wise to do the distance calibration before doing the Cut calibration? i believe that the cut calibration is only to calibrate your Printer to the Cutter not calibrate the machine. so when you do the cut calibration it will look perfect but when doing a normal cut the detection markers are only in the corners of the print, so if the distance is off the cut will "drift" because the number of steps per 200mm of travel is not quite right.
Thank you for watching, hopefully I can answer your question.
When running this calibration you are calibrating Silhouette Studio to the Silhouette, so it cuts where you intend it to. Calibrating ones printer would depend on make and model of the Printer (please follow your printers manufacturers recommended procedures for calibrating ones printer). My printer is an Epson Stylus Pro 7600 wide format printer, and is calibrated to print exactly what the screen shows. The Silhouette graphs it's trajectory based off the registration marks, translated to a path given by the software, as you postulated in your question. So one is telling the software where your machine actually cut, so the software can make the adjustments to the path it gives the Silhouette.
The 200 mm adjustment scale I adjust with the printed circles AFTER adjusting using the manufacturer's recommended calibration method. This calibration is on offset of travel left to right, and up to down. I find fine tuning this adjustment with an actual cut job gives me the best results.
The cross hair calibration shown is for calibration of the optical eye and blade, also known as setting a zero.
Hope this helps!
Loud noise at 4:43 was my wife playing video games upstairs with the kids. I missed something exciting apparently lol.
Ya that calibration seams very counter intuitive. The cameo does not print so not sure why they call it print and cut. I want to get a tracker feed type cutter and not sure what I would buy but not going to buy a cheap one that I have to toy with. a Gerber maybe ?
Not sure what you mean by tracker feed cutter, the cameo will cut very long rolls. If you are looking for soming that combines both printing and cutting, than Roland has a great reputation. If you are just looking for something like this but far easier, Siser Romeo is a great cutter. Cricut just came out with a high end 24in cutter as well.
Idk what to know I am having so many problems it's won't cut my right side of words. Using 651 oracle. I barely got it to cut at all. The company making me send videos etc.. they don't wanna help.
I feel your frustration, there are so many quirks to these machines. I feel they are way too complicated and underdeveloped for the market they are trying to capture. There are cheaper machines with far more precision, actual cameras that give insane accuracy contour cutting, and they are selling this for 500 with $20+ blades... I felt cheated and I only paid 350 second hand.
Heey I don't know if you can help me, but the problem I have is the when I cut stickers without the mat it feeds the page all the way to the back when registering and can't register properly.
It could have to do with many different settings or just the alignmentof the paper. I have had it do this when I didn't have the correct size paper selected, lined it up with the wrong alignment line, or forgot to turn off the mat in Silhouette Studio (if the software thinks you are cutting with a mat it doesn't look in the right spot). Sometimes the automatic registration just doesn't feel like working properly, in this case I have to manually register it.
Are you using a a silhouette cameo 4, plus, or pro? They all have their individual quirks.
I am using a 4 pro, and I made sure it is without a cutting mat and the correct paper size yet it sill happens, and it didn't happen before which is weird.
@@nestorismaelflores3625 that is strange. I would manually register. On the cut menu it has a picture of the machine. Right click on that and you will see the option to manually register. Once selected you will hit send and it will say register. Put the cutting tool, not the reading eye, above the first square registration mark and click register. This will initiate the reading. If that doesn't work if use a mat. I do stickers all the time with mats. It is a little time consuming but works well.
Which blade are you using, and what is the blade depth
In this video, I was using an aftermarket CB09 blade housing. It is like a manual blade with fine adjustment. It was deep enough to cut paper, so it was probably equivalent to a 1 on any Silhouette blade
Did your machine come with the black edge guide to sit the mat against?
No, I ordered it off of etsy. The person I bought mine from no longer 3d prints them, though there are many who do. I actually have 2 different sizes for the Cameo Pro. The other one lines up with the far left line on the Cameo Pro for using the 24in mat.
@@northernferrycustomization thank you
I use this for my business dose well put had the Titan the bolts lol thought it broke
Once you calibrate, does it stay calibrated?
Yes, until it starts not cutting right again, then I recalibrate.
I wasn’t having any issues, now all of a sudden it’s messing up all my stuff-.- thanks!
Hope the info was helpful not harmful. You can always set back to original settings if it did cause an issue.
Thank you!!!
You are welcome. Hope this process helped with any issues you were having.
Ugh, not working again, it’s WAY off! Like not just a little, it cuts completely crooked
I'll be making a video about everything that can be making it off slightly soon... these machines are so far from user friendly it hurts my head.
What I check first every time mine messes up:
1. Did I have a mat or not in design prior to printing. (If changed after printing it changes the registration mark locations. So if I decide to use a mat after printing, just use Manually registration. It won't know the difference.
2. Print page setup. (Mine was originally set to A4 instead of my 8.5x11. This messed up how it printed and cut for some reason.
3. Try manually registration. (Auto registration is so unreliable on these machines, though when it works, it is awesome.)
4. Unplug Cameo and run blade carrier to the far right and back 3 time, ending all the way to the left. (This resets the machines zero when turned back on.)
Hope one of these are causing your machine to be off, and not have to run the calibration again.
It also would not cut in middle of my letters
Is there anything I can go over in a video that may help?
I heard the pro was a problem so glad I didn't buy it.
What did you end up going with, out of curiosity?