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Thanks, I found a similar font I just add in the swirls as needed. I made a decal for our laundry room.

Forget using rulers. My Graphtec doesn't even have rulers and it feeds straight. What I do, is make sure the pinch rollers are the same distance, from the edge of the vinyl. When I get real picky, I use a tape measure and measure like 1 1/4" from each wheel to edge of vinyl. I don't know how many pinch rollers your cutter has, but my 30" Graphtec only has 2 and feeds perfect. My cutter has a prefeed option on it. And I always prefeed the vinyl for long cuts. It actually puts the roller marks in the vinyl, so that the cutter follows those marks when I cut my design. Those pinch roller marks don't hurt a thing. Always prefeed the entire length of the order and have the vinyl laying to the back of the machine, never pulling on the roll while cutting. Make sure the vinyl roll is straight on the cutter and behind the cutter. I put my hand inside the roll and make sure it is tight under the pinch rollers, You can see if the vinyl is even across. If yours does not have a prefeed option then use the arrows of your machine to prefeed the vinyl back and forth.

an additional thought - the p-cut like many value cutters is more like a schizophrenic - you never know hour to hour which personality you are dealing with

I can only think of this suggestion --- Get a cheapie laptop DELL pc for under $100, install the abandonware SignBlazer (archived in a SECRET place at USCutter's servers) and let that be the unit to run your cutter directly and dedicated to the task. With a little thumbnail drive you'll be able to design and control workflow from the mac, then just take your .eps cutfiles over for running within SBE. (make sure to create older versions than 8 for the eps to render correctly in SignBlazer) Just a tip from a guy who stands by SignBlazer to get USCutter machines dicing & slicing nicely.

lol - I remember my p-cut teaching me lots of it's quirks, ahh the old days that makes me appreciate the graphtec now. go on vacation for 3 weeks and come back and everything works right away as it should.