Hitech EZ Cutter 200 User manual

User Guide: EZ Cutter 200

Physical Setup

Unlock the machine
Swipe your student card in
front of the card reader. If
you’ve booked the laser
cutter at the current time
period the machine will
turn on.
If the machine doesn’t turn
on re-check the time
period of your booking.
Otherwise contact the
workshop staff.

Initialize the machine
First, open the lid on the
laser cutter and make
sure that there are no
leftover materials
inside the machine.
Afterwards press
“Run”.
NOTE: If there are any sort
of material on the tray,
remove them before
proceeding to the next step.

“Homing” the laser cutter
Press “Press here to
do homing“.
The machine will move
the laser head to home
position (x,y = 0,0)
and will then be ready
for use.

The Operation screen
“OPER.” is short for Operation
and is the screen used to start
and stop the laser cutter once
your job has been uploaded.
After uploading your cutting job
from the connected PC the
cutting won’t begin before you
press the “Start”-button. Pressing
“Pause” will stop the cutting
when the current cutting line is
complete. Afterwards a
“Resume”-button appears on the
screen an pressing this will
continue the cutting job.

Moving the laser head
“FOCUS” is for manually
moving the laser head around.
Use the arrows to move the
laser head around.
“P1” is for moving the laser
head to the lower left corner
and “P2” to the upper right
corner.

The Red Pointer
1. Switch to the “CONFIG” menu.
2. Press on the “Output” menu
3. Switch the “Red Pointer” from
“OFF” to “ON”
4. Exit the menu and the machine
will show the red pointer from
now on.!
If you need to turn on the
red pointer use the
following steps:

Place the laser head in the lower
left corner of the machine (where
the coordinates x,y = 0,0). Then
place the lower left corner of
your material at x,y =0,0 (if the
“red pointer” is On then the red
dot should be exactly at the
corner of your material)
To make sure your material is
placed parallel to the x- and y-
axis, use the touch display to
move the laser head along the x-
axis and you should see the red
pointer moving exactly on the
edge of the material at all time.
Placing the material

Setting correct focus
Place the 2”-distance-block
perpendicular to your material and
turn the knob until the block exactly
fits in the cavity of the lowest tray
on the laser head.
Spin this knob to adjust the height
of the laser head.
If your material is not completely
planar the focus will change along
the material. This will result in
varied cutting performance on
different areas of the material. Only
solution is to buy only perfectly
planar plates for laser cutting.

Adjust air pressure
Depending on the material
you’re cutting in the
amount of air should be
adjusted.
A rule of thumb is that
thicker materials require
more air than thinner
materials. Using too much
air can result in smaller
pieces being blown away
after being cut out.
Correct amount of air can
be found by evaluating the
quality of the cutting edge
of the material.

Upload your cutting file
If the laser cutter is
running at low speed,
you can add more air
so materialt not burn
too much