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Hi Anybody know where I can find Metal Chrome license plate frames? The ones from SignWareHouse not only have a recess for the engraved inserts the one I bought had double sided adhesive tape already installed... :-( I also tried a couple of samples from RMG Accessory Gear and the samples they sent also have recesses I guess they were worried that I would sell them so they had engraved plastic inserts in them. I would prefer a metal/chrome version of the plastic ones without recesses.... Thanks Tony

Hi I am also considering purchasing one of these. I bought a Creation cutter on the basis of all the feed back, forum discussions, price, etc. I have some concerns about this press as there is little to no feed back. I also do not see a warranty and does it come with a 30 day 100% satisfaction garantee? The last thing that I want to do is to return it because it does not perform to expectation, but that is not as bad as an expensive paper weight. Any answers/reviews. Uscutter seems to have tested it, any chance of posting good photos of the results? Thanks Tony

I just ran into a similar situation and this is what I did. Anybody have a better suggestion please bring it up. I was asked to create two phrases in Japanese: "Kings of my heart" and "Queen of my heart". I went to google translate and got the the translation from English to Japanese. Did a copypaste from the WEB site into a blank word docume. Word claimed that the font was "MS Mincho".... So I went to "SignBlazer" picked "MS Mincho"...Crap! they came up as normal English characters.... So I copy/pasted the two phrases from Word into paint and saved as a JPEG. Make sure that you crop to the size of the Phrase or you land up with a pic of the whole page which is mostly blank. Imported into Inkscape and Vectorized it. Imported into SignBlazer and Bingo!! I have not cut it yet but it looks decent. The reason I came her in the first place was to find out if there was a more gracefull way to do this, but found the question so there you have it. It is entirely possible that you may be able to copy paste directly into paint, I have not tried it yet. This I would think would work with other software packages. Have a good one Tony

Hi I am trying to find this font. Apparantly it is supposed to be called Dynamic (#48) but I can't find it anywhere. TIA Tony

Thanks a bunch... Who would have put KlingonBlade together with Dynamic (#48)? BTW ever searched dafont for 48? Just make sure that there are no kids around... :-) Again thanks Tony

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Guys I have had my Creation for about 3 months. Other than the initial going around with the blade setting it has been working pretty decently. Out of the blue it started with the before mentioned "Waiting" state on longer jobs. This has been basic text about 36" or longer. I have been reading all of the threads and there are two things that have me wondering: 1- I don't seem to see where a definitive action fixed the problem. 2- Mine seems to be a little different. At the same time thins started to happen I also ran into somthing else new. If a job completes, if I take the citter off line to change the vinyl, or anyother activity if I put it back on line it will not cut and I get a message " Cannot open the output device. Error initializing Cutter".... Usually power cycling the cutter resolves this but not always. Sometimes twice. Also when opening "Cutter set up" - "Save" in SB it will also bring it back and cut. I have been using a laptop from the get go and the USB port. Using the serial port is not an option. I have checked everything that has been suggested exept using the other USB port on the laptop and checking the connections on the cutter's motherboard. While on the subject of the motherboard I am assuming the the access is throught the bottom. Are the six screws glued in or something? Is the flow control really supposed to be hardware? The only reason I am asking is this feels a lot like a flow control/buffer overfow issue, in order to do serial hardware flowcontrol you need a seperate data line on a standard serial port. I am not sure if a USB connection has this, I could be wrong.... I would really like to explore all options before I launch it across the street. Thanks Tony

Hi Ken I finally managed to get around to connecting to the laptop with the serial port. It seems to have fixed the problem but only time will tell. After all it worked just fine for about three months using the USB port.... I bought this mainly because it has a USB port which would enable me to use any laptop. I have to be mobile and conventional PC's just ain't practical for that. Serial ports are practically extinct. I used your cable but I needed a longer one which is next to impossible to find. Managed to find an extension which I guess will have to do for now. I have not looked closely at the mother board. I suspect that there is a bridge circuit creating the USB port from the serial port. This at best would be a hack. IMHO I think that there is a flow control problem between the laptop USB port and the cutter. This would not surprise me as USB does NOT do hardware flow control but rather software flow control sort off similar to Xon/Xoff. This means a number of steps everytime an hardware stop is required from the cutter. If anything slows down this would be the result. Any chance that this would be rectified in the future? Thanks Tony

Thanks for reminding about the cable. I did disable the power saving feature of the USB ports. Yes it is a serial port. As soon as a finish some smaller jobs I will try that laptop. Tony

Ken Thanks for replying. Luck has it that I was just given a Laptop with a serial port. Problem is that I do swap meets hence the need for a laptop. I find it strange that in our day and age a peripheral would have problems with USB and laptops.... Lets face it just about the only thing that I have not found yet without a USB port and does not support Laptops is a kitchen sink :-) What serial cable does it use? Null modem? Tony

Thanks for your reply. I guess that I was not patient enough with it. It looks like that if I wait long enough the temperature with say a setting of 350 will go up to about 355 and than starts to come down to about 346 and than it goes up again. Everytime it goes across the pre set 350 the "out" LED goes on/off depending which way it is going and I can hear it "click" . Tony

Hi I also just bought a Sunie press, which I picked up directly from them (I was in the neighborhood). I am a bit baffled with the temperature setting. Say I set it for 350F. It starts to warm up but when it its 350F, but it seems to just carry on higher and higher. I sort of expected it to stop at 350F for an indefinate period of time. It appears that if I press as it its 350F it will stay there for the duration of the press and after I open it up, it climbs up again. One other thing is that when I check the temperature with an IR thermometer it seems to be higher than the display by about 20-30F. Than again the thermometer is from Harbor Freight so it may not be all that accurate. Thanks Tony

Thanks Jay. Unfortunatly they don't have it. Usefull site though. Tony

Hi Can anybody id the font used on the LAREDO on the sides of the hood. It is close to the "Commerce SF" but not quite (D + O). Thanks a banch Tony

Hi Do you mind posting a basic simple report on this press? I am also looking for a press to "test the waters". Does it have the problem with uneven heating? I realize that most anybody will say that one should buy a name brand. In the other hand I attended a sign trade show and basically the general opinion on vinyl cutters was " USwho?", "chinese cutters are crap", etc. Same for SB. So.... but here we are largely happy with UScutter products. Tony

Jay Thanks for that. Actually I had just done it slightly different. If I select/combine before I did the outline it actually worked with a slight problem inside the stars but that was a simple matter of deleting some nodes. The nudge advice is great because I have had to do "disassemble" an image before and "eye-balled" the reasembly.... This will make that a lot simpler. Thanks Tony

Hi I am still a newbie at all of this. I converted a JPG image to vector (eps) with Inkscape. I originaly made the raster image b/w with Adobe Elements to simplify things. Than I imported it into SB and used outline to create a background which will be white and the Blue + Red parts. In a perfect world I expected the stars to be cut out off the Blue part and the White would be visible. For reasons that I haven't got a clue the stars cut out are in the background (white) and the Blue does not have the cut outs. How do I reverse this? I included the SB file, if it helps I can upload the original JPG and/or eps file. Any help/suggestions would be greatly apreciated Tony PS I am also planning to do the elephant... :-) democrat-1.SBD democrat-1.SBD

Thanks for the reply. Much better. One more thing. What I am doing is "pull" the blue section away from the image and than drag the stars from the background to the blue section than combine and reassemble the image. I am just trying to figure out what is the best way to do this sort of thing, it seems to be a bit clumsy. I could not get it done any other way ( I could not get the stars and the blue section to select on their own) but if it the way, well be it so. On a completely different subject, do you know if there is a limit to how many fonts SB "sees" as installed in the system? It appears that in my case it does not "see" all of them. I have added quite a few and they come up okay. But many do not. Thanks again Tony

Hi guys I need a little help with this. I am trying to do the democratic donkey (I am also going to do the elephant). My idea was to do the whole image in white and than do the top half in blue with the stars cut out and the bottom in red. Layer the whole thing. What I came up with is what I have attached, which works but not exactly what I wanted. If at all possible I would prefer the sequence so I don't have to come back here everytime I need something.. The original was color. I converted the raster to B/W with Adobe elements, than vectorized with Inkscape and brought it in Signblazer. I am a newbie at all of this (specially node editing). Thanks for any help Tony democrat.eps democrat.SBD democrat.eps democrat.SBD

Thanks for the suggestion. That got me a whole lot closer but still no cigar. This will require some SB expertise that I am still lacking. I used the outline option and that basically created the white background and an outline which looks better any way. The problem that I am running into is that the stars are being cut on the white background even if they don't show as beeing there on the image on the white layer. The blue does not have the cuts for the stars. Any suggestions? Thanks Tony

Because I am having a similar problem I was wondering if there are any other suggestions. What I have noticed is that the carriage sometimes makes a shattering noise when going from left (power plug side) to right. I don't think that it was as loud as when I first got it. Adjusted as I have it does cut perfect for most of a job, but there will be some of the "perforated lines" which in many cases I have to manually cut of with an x-Acto knife in order ot weed. One other thing that I have noticed is that it appears to cut deeper on the right (i/o ports side) than on the left. I have tried to adjust the blade depth but anything over 1/4 turn either way from what appears to de the best position and either it does not cut well or lifts the vinyl in the more intricate designs. Is there any recomendations as far as adjusting the carriage rails, cleaning, lubrication, etc? Thanks for any help Tony

Hi Has anybody tried making decals to stick on an EZ-up type shelter roof? I tried 651 and it comes right off. I would prefer to do this cold. I guess I could go with a heat press small sections at a time but I really think that it will be a pain, considering the size of the fabric. I have seen these shelters with logos but I guess that they screen print the fabric before the actual canopie is stritched together. Any ideas? Thanks Tony

Thanks for the suggestion. I did find the thread and that may well be the way to go. Thanks again Tony

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks guys Tony

Does anybody have a Dream Catcher preferably single color. EPS would be nice but a b/w raster will do Thanks a bunch Tony