Silhouette Cameo Mat Slipping

How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat.

Silhouette cameo mat slipping.

Two tips to help keep vinyl from shifting when cutting designs on the silhouette cameo. When cutting vinyl or heat transfer vinyl without a mat on silhouette cameo or portrait the right roller needs to be moved in. Find your machine below to see how you can adjust the rollers on your machine. The fix is to move the paper or material on the cutting mat over and up just slightly so it covers the top and left edge of the grid line box right.

If you have a cameo 2 or cameo 3 you have the ability to adjust the rollers to cut different sizes of lined media on rolls namely vinyl and heat transfer without a cutting mat. This quick fix will help make sure your vinyl does not slip out from under the rollers when cutting sheets of vinyl with your silhouette cameo. Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat. Locate the release lever on the right side and turn it clockwise.

The mat should be lined up with the gray line on the bottom part of the cameo not pushed all the way up against the gray cylinder. If your silhouette cameo 4 wont read registration marks for print and cut it is likely trying to read the grid lines on your cutting mat left. Is your mat a little full of leftover vinyl fibers or full of glitter. I was so far off.

I was so far off. If you are using letter size cardstock on the cameo and not the full 12 12 mat you need to move the plastic roller on the right in to the notches towards the middle so that.