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The 30 and 40 should be the same with the exception that the 40 is wireless. they bith print 8.5 x 44, the WF 1100 is the large format. The WF1100 has an extra black cartridge, can remember if the others are a 4 or 5 cart system.

oops, sorry Banner. :-* Ditto Mars. I just took it as "it is what it is", I agree on those points, just thought I was missing something.

The MH 871 cuts nicely with MTC. You have the choice of cutting WYSIWYG, just as placed on screen or by the knife set/origin, I have also be using Sign Cut which came with the cutter. I've done paper cuts with a mat and vinyl from the roll. I will say that I did seem to have a "cleaner" cut of the paper cardstock when I used Sign Cut. MTC is still my favorite for designing. I just save my design as an eps or ai file to cut in alternate program. Banner, I don't know of the quirks you are speaking of I'm curious.

Since last posting I've been using my MH 871, it works great with Make The Cut. however, I will say thus far, I like to do my designing in MTC, cutting in Sign Cut, (runing the 1 year license that came with the cutter). Still trying to figure Sign Blazer.

If all you want to do is numbers, you can get away with something as simple as a Cricut Personal or Create cutter, only cuts an area of 6 x 12, or Cricut Expression 12 x 24". and either Sure Cuts A Lot software, mac compatable, or Make the Cut running on paralelles (no need to buy cartridges). You can get started from $150-250. The Shilouette is also a nice cutter with contour cutting ability, not sure how it works with Mac. about $200. Cut area 8.5 x 39" The Gazelle is another cutter with more force and speed than the cutters above, and it has laser alignment. Cut area 13 x 96. Runs from $350-450. Someone else will most likely chime in and say these are hobby machine, true they were geared for the hobbist market, but they are workhorses and have been pushed to cut items many would not try on a "Professional" machine. I am also using the US Cutter MH-871, they have a smaller 12" starting at $220.00

For about $30 buck more you can find the WF1100 Nite mentioned. Plus Staple's has a 10% off coupon, that's good until Friday. 1/21

Here's the info from the post on the T-shirt Forum The cutter is a GCC Bengal in Hot Pink I jumped on this offer and I'm expecting delivery by the end off the week. I just purchased a MH 871 about 3 weeks ago and have recouped 2/3 of the cost, . I figured that since I'm just getting started still have materials to buy to get my setup this would be a good deal and I have a second cutter,(and one more easily portable should I need it to be). Since most posters say that there machines have paid for themselves, I'm hoping to recoupe part if not all of the $100/month It comes out to 3 rolls of heat press vinyl a month. Imprintables Warehouse Cut 3000 Business Expansion Offer: We are happy to offer the following package to T-Shirt forum members! The Cut-3000 package is valued at over $2000. It includes all these great items and more: Susan G. Komen limited edition Cut-3000 cutter Cadworxlive online design program Great cut software 6 yards of materials What do you need to do for Imprintables Warehouse? It pretty simple really. In exchange for the great business package above you agree to purchase our materials for use with the cutter for 12 months. What dollar retail value of materials? $1,200 This works out to be $100 per month measured once per quarter to make sure you are on track. Here is the beauty of this arrangement: you are getting the entire equipment and software package up front at no charge and all of the material you purchase, spread out over twelve months, will be used to make yourself a lot of profit. There are absolutely no gimmicks here. You own the equipment and all the extras free of charge after completing the material purchase requirement. Even more, you get the complete, experienced support of the entire staff at Imprintables Warehouse. Our company has made its reputation in the industry base on our expertise and excellent customer support. There are no banks or financing companies involved. It is simply an agreement between you and Imprintables Warehouse. This is a very unique arrangement and while you are making money with the equipment and materials you also will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have contributed $100 of real money to the search for a cure to breast cancer. We think you will agree that it would be very difficult to go wrong with this sort of opportunity. Get your Cut-3000 Business Expansion Package sent to you today! There is a limited supply of only 100 packages available so act quickly to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Contact Steven Jackson for more details: steven@Imprintables.com or call him at 518-728-5890

Well I didn't reset anything, it just worked on the 10th or so restart of the program. Thanks for the quick response.

Thanks I'll try that. When I first setup the machince I was able to do cuts and just did cuts in a different software, maybe it cause the port configuration to change.

I am trying to do a cut in sign blazer and just can't get this to work. I have been able to make cuts in another software, but it doesn't have the weeding feature. I have gone through the step and refered back to the manual, but I am missing something, no response to "cut" command. I'm using the MH 871. Thanks

I have a version of Funtime thats only for the BossKut Gazelle, and I haven't tried PNC on it yet. I've mentioned in other post about Make The Cut software and it works with print and cut. You can download the trial version and see if it works out for you. Also on the MTC board, there's a member SBryan, he uses the Laser Point cutter. You may wish to post a question on that board to him or join the Tuesday night webinar, live question and answer sessions. 8:30-10:00--and later.

I'm not an affliate for Make the Cut, be I will also say, IT"S AWESOME. I've made several post stating this. It does have several drivers and the developer is always trying to add more, he's very hands on with the product. I own 5 different cutters and it is compatable with each. I like being able to open one program, design and then cut to the machine(s) of my choice. It's a powerful and inexpensive program. Andy, the developer of the software is also up for the challenge of getting his software to work with as many cutters as possible, it works with Rolands, MH-serires and Laser Point. As well as the SD Shilouette, Cricuts, BossKut Gazzelle and Black Cat Cutter, if your machine is not on the list just post a message in the Make the Cut message board. I just got my MH cutter and haven't completely set it up. I received Sign Blazer and Sign Cut but haven't tried them yet, so I can say how MTC compares to the others, but I believe it deserves taking a look at.

I am new to this type of cutter as well, but here's my take on things. As far as easy to use software, I am using Make the cut, is was originally developed to work with the cricut, but seveal other cutter drivers have since been added and more upon user request. I have used four different hobby cutters, cricut E, create, shilouette sd and the bosskut gazelle, I just purchased the Uscutter MH-871 and I can cut to any of these machines from this software. There's a great support forum and weekly webniars. As far as contour cutters, it works with the LaserPoint and roland machines. You can download an unlimited trial version and test it with your Cricut, lot of features and a small price tag. I haven't run any test on my MH-871, didn't set it up yet. but I will say I love this software and I'm to lazy to (For the moment) to learn another software. Since you can print from this software I used it to do my color separations for screenprinting.

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