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Hey guys I have a creation ct-630 USB version. I understand the cutter has a serial to USB conversion and I did everything fi should. Installed the USB driver and got it working with signcut. And everything works great But strangely every now and then when the cutter and laptop have been rebooted / restarted under device manager it states the device is no longer working and it has a mark next to it By messing around and changing USB port and plugging the USB cable in and out while the cutter is on sometimes solves the problem and the cutter gets recognised as it should and it gets assigned a com port as it should So it's working sort of but just very very annoying Anyone know why this happens and is there a way to stop it? Thanks in advance for any help

Hiya. I have a 1200mm sc1261e liyu cutter. I set it up via a USB to serial and using a serial cable and everything was working great even up to last night and then today cutting the same stuff I was cutting last night it's gone horribly wrong I'd do everything as normal. The cutter would start cutting as it should. On signcut the timer green back seems to shoot forward and complete time Hangs around 10 seconds and then before a minute into the cut the cutter returns to where it started and does a weird cut at the bottom and just stops. The display on the cutter says "now is cutting". Anyone know what could be causing this? It's so strange and wastes a lot of vinyl

hey all i am using a backup cutter, only a cheao joys mt871, its all setup as refine in the settings menu but for some reason, i set everything up, load my image in signcut and it starts cutting fine, and i am pretty sure as soon as the time elapsed/time remaining box goes of the screen the cutter just holts and never actually completes a job. its usually a few minutes into the cut. i have a similar setup but with a ct630 cutter and that never fails me. is there anything in the settings that i could change or do to make the cutter complete a job. its so annoying and it just wastes vinyl. thanks for any help in advance

Hey all Just bought a cheap cutter as a backup and set it all up and it's working in a way I can send something from signcut to it and it starts pronting But when I press cutout it the cutter cuts backwards when I do t want it to. Obviously if I mirror the image in signcut it does print the way I want it to. But my main issue is if I am sending something for example size 100cm by 50cm to the cutter the wait itnwoildninotially print on by 600mm cutter it wouldn't fit so I have to rotate the image 90 degrees so it cuts long the length of the vinyl. But when I do this it splits my image into 2 tiles and if I send to cut it only cuts from one of the tiles. Is there a way to sort this out? I just want to be able to cut it as once piece not have it split into these tiles? Can anyone help? Thank you

wow thanks just did that and it worked!! thannks dude much appreciated!!

Mz skeeter They are different cutters. The 2nd one is mt871. I couldn't find the actual driver for it but read somewhere that graphtec driver actually works and it did. However in signcut I couldn't find thee and model joys mt871 so I just selected the same one as my other cutter ct630 and matched the settings and it does actually work just got this issue with it splicing my images into tiles. Is there anything I could do?

Forgot to say on my main cutter I am using signcut too exact same settings and that cuts fine no problem. Just weird how on the other one initially it cuts a mirrored image and when I rotate it it splits it into tiles and doesn't cut the whole image in one?

anyone happen to have any wall quotes? thanks in advance.

Hey guys When I use avery vinyl I have I believe I set the blade as best as if can be. It cuts fine and weeding is so easy all excess comes off and leaves all my cut stuff intact Then I apply application tape but when it comes to applying it to a wall or wherever trouble starts when peeling application tape back it keeps leaving pretty much everything still stuck to the backing tape and I have to manually lift a letter off one by one before the application tape will pick it up Anyone know what I could be doing wrong Thanks for any help in advance

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="darcshadow" data-cid="350254" data-time="1395762804"><p> If that doesn't do it, try flipping the decal over and peal the backing off so that the decal and app tape are laying on the table. Some app tape works better than others, what type are you useing?</p></blockquote> Never tries that so far but it sounds worth a shot will try it next time. Thanks for the advice guys

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="jaybird" data-cid="350238" data-time="1395751116"><p> Is the backing paper stuck to the letters around the edge of the cut? If so your blade is still too deep and it'll be miserable to get off the backing.</p></blockquote> I do mess around with the blade on different vinyls to get it to only cut the vinyl and not cut the backing paper. In this case it was real nice cuts but the application tape does not pull the letters of the packing paper. Maybe it's down to the vinyl

Haha that Is hilarious!

I too have been doing some digging and yes there is several different version of it Mine is branded as ct-630 and comes as USB only no serial port at all. Which sucks when wanting to avoid the USB issues every seems to experience But so far so good few little glitches but it's not a bad entry level cutter once you get to grips with it

Thank you. I will give it a shot

hey guys. I am new to vinyl cutting and am still learning With my cutter I got given some spare rolls of vinyl and most of them were avery not sure what thickness tho but I had very miniman problems using that even printing quite busy lettering Then I ordered some cheaper stuff which is £10 for 5m 610mm off ebay and immediately noticed to touch it feels very different to avery and it's a lot thinner. Upon a test cut it was cutting through too thin. So I adjusted the blade and made it as small as I could and it cut sort of ok and weeding and peeling was real easy However during the cutting process on some lettering the vinyl would start to come off and peel a bit and I'd have to push it back by hand Is there any suggesting and ideas how to stop that happening Thanks in advance for any help

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="dakotagrafx" data-cid="349853" data-time="1395530108"><p> Try oiling your blade holder and check for small pieces hiding in the holder</p></blockquote> Thanks dude. Will try When you say oil it do u mean open the holder and put the oil in where the blade is held?

Thank u mz-skeeter

So much info Nd things to learn eh My issue is I am in the uk and I would like to find a good supplier and buy decent quality vinyl that won't give me much grief when cutting Anyone from uk suggest good vinyl?

definitelly strange. just had a good luck, on the left side its power input and the on/off switch and on the other side (right) is just a usb port, no serial port insight

thanks dude that is a great insight. really helpful which machine did you end up getting after p-cut? ive had some good luck with my p-cut so far. when i bought it used of a guy he gave me lots of vinyl rolls, think most are made by avery, quite thick and i seemed to get on ok with it. but then i needed a colour that i didnt have so i ordered some vinyl from the dreaded ebay and to touch it feels really thin and when using it you can see the difference in quality and sometimes when cutting it started peeling bits off during cutting. so i guess i have answered my own issue there, buy quality vinyl.. i just dont know what to get right now for less hassle when cutting. here is some of the things i have done so far. i run a tattoo studio and existing signage was terrible so decided to make it look a bit more fresh

hi all just saying hello.. i am new here and a newbie to the vinyl cutting world. got myself a vinyl cutter and have it running with signcut all working well so far so looking to expand my knowledge in this subject

Just looked at a keyspan adapter. I am confused now. On my cutter there is only a USB port on it as if I get a keyspan adapter and connect that to the USB port on my laptop how do I then connect the serial cable to the cutter if there isn't a serial port on the cutter?

Bearlyrich Thanks for the advice bro I was running windows 8.1 and I had same issues so I downgraded to windows 7 hoping it would lessen the issues and it has but still it happens Trouble is my desktop and laptop don't have on oats serial ports if I did buy the key span adapter But saying that tho I do know I could get am add on PCI card with serial port on it I am willing to give anything a try. Cheers for your help

Wildgoose What sort of limitations have you encountered so far with that cutter?

Is it possible to post some pictures via safari on an iphone? My laptop is in my work and won't have access to it till tomorrow but sure I will post some work would be good To get some feedback. Thank you