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    Hey ~ I'm Alicia Zee!

    welcome aboard, we need some fired up new life on here
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    Ioline cutters

    already dn loaded the manual. haven't dn loaded any software since i figured it would b similar to setting up 1 of the others and use the cutting software i now use. looked up all I could online , even had a lil help. found this thread from the google search. since he has 1 , just would like to talk to him now since his last post on this is 2 yrs old. anything break/tear up? any issue where he needed the co that told him they would always offer support? stuff like that. thought some of that would b nice to kno. and im 1 of those that no matter how much i learn doing anything, i never think of myself as an expert. to me u can always learn something new.
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    Ioline cutters

    just checked since no response and looks like its been awhile since @PixelPusher has logged on maybe tagging u will get u on here. lol Wanna chat a lil bit about getting this cutter up and running after i get it. going b a lil while because of this hurricane were dealing with right now. but your post, especially the 1 about the co. def has my interest sparked more in this cutter. I have 2 stepper motor cutters now and wanting to pik up a servo cutter. im relying on the vinyl to pay for all the upgrades. that's y im staying with used for the time being. plus sooner or later my plan is setting up an enclosed trailer to take to events to do both vinyl and shirts. this 1 is bigger than I what I really want. mainly was looking for something in the 28-30" range for my space up ft at the shop. but from the info u posted i will put this 1 somewhere. lol.
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    Shelf life paper transfer tape once applied

    ive asked this before, I keep pre made decals for sell in our shop , I use a couple different types of clear and paper tape. the clear shows the decal for resale better. I know I have installed a couple of mine that have been sitting on the shelf for over a yr
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    White Aluminum signs

    I order all my aluminum sign board from local dist. grimco covers the whole country
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    Ioline cutters

    im digging up an old thread. but I just ran across 1 of these. not sure what yr it would be. he says its an ioline I/S 130 smartrac so you say this is an old 1 worth picking up. going to check it out then. I have an older dell laptop Vostro with windows xp and has atleast 1serial port. havent looked at it n a long time is y I say that. but u said could use windows 10, so I guess I could get a keyspan
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    RMA Exchange

    maybe she finally got things handled with customer serv. hmmm, will have to look when im back at the shop . but seems my sc cutter & stand came n 1 box. I let myself get hooked with 1 of those starter kits, so I had boxes and boxes when it finally got here. vinyl, tools, app tape roller, and whatever else came with it. all those were threw out. but the cutter box is up n the storage. but some reason I rem taking it all out of 1. maybe that's y mine came n not working or whatever u wanna call it. needed a new carriage. maybe too many pieces to bounce around n shipping.
  8. no, right now just my 54" SC and that GCC Expert 24 I traded for. but a couple days before my surgery the almost perfect deal for me came up on CL the state below me. It was a 28" titan 3, the guy stated he ordered from USC the week before , did a couple cuts and decided it was too small for him . he wanted the 53" or 54" titan 3 . not sure which they make it in. everything was in the pics, so it looked all legit. and the deal of the da was he would take $650 shipped to me. surgery was in 2 days, my post op track record is terrible , so I felt I had no choice but to pass. I might be picking up that Mimaki ive been talking/asking about for awhile next week. end goal is to have a 24-30" cut servo cutter at the shop. the big sc at the house in what 1 of my friends is calling the "woodys graphics world headquarters' lol!! Then last Im wanting to set up an enclosed trailer to go to events/car shows and just whatever. back on topic. im cutting flowers out of the library that came with scalps4 . the Gcc is at the shop . I do a cut and the center circle of the flower cuts as it should. come home where I have the surfboard sc 54" , just plug in , change over cutters in scalps, and no clean cut. the cuts in the circle don't meet.
  9. im actually just started having this issue. on the other topic I see we have a new member Support@USCutter interested in what this changes
  10. ended up trading for 1 recently. def a different beast compared to my us cutter sc model hey but it is quieter. whats the good bad and ugly? heres the deal. just had back surgery and moved the 54" sc to the house and have started setting up a vinyl world headquarters in a spare room, well that's what a buddy likes to call it. the goal was to not take this big boat anchor back to the shop anyway. so was wanting a servo 24" cutter to take its place. well long story short, the Graphtec I thought I made a deal on, his stepdaughter wanted it more, so im sure everyone knows who won that 1. been playing with this Gcc since I traded hmmm...… I have it cutting, in my scalps program of course. don't think VM will run a cutter like this. and now the mimaki ive mentioned a few times has came dn in price also. atleast its a servo. neither cutter comes with a stand. im using the gcc using my app tape roller to feed the vinyl working cool for now. so now also looking for a deal on another app roller. lol oops, about to forget this comment. im really wondering where they came up with the model name...… Expert
  11. good find on the fc 8000 I will have to start looking on the bay more often
  12. well I hate to say it, but it seems US Cutter has jumped all in with VM software, and it never fails when im using it, it crashes and has to shut dn. and we are talking simple stuff, im not good enough to do major stuff. lol. a lot of my stuff is just txt. ive never had that issue with scalps. another buddy is a big flexi user. he is trying his best to get me to switch over to flexi. it does seem flexi is set up now to work with about anything
  13. yep, just looked again. but when I tried out a Graphtec , it wasn't nthn to set up
  14. after seeing your comment I went to VM.com I see GCC on there. but when I tried to use it on my version didn't see gcc anywhere. will keep digging
  15. ok, maybe its just my version of VM wouldn't work with it. the speed and pressure is set from the cut software unlike my sc cutter . I do it on the panel on the cutter
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    cutting mylar

    actually prob have the perfect app tape for it. lol I think I posted about it in some of my 1st post when I was listing my newbie mistake. I have a clear I bought off amazon and with my 1st attempt lettering a commercial vehicle, tried wet apply and his phone # is still on my shop fridge, app tape and all. lol
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    cutting mylar

    yes, and I think that's y most use the cheap hobby cutters wal mart sells for this since most us a mat to hold the material for the cutter
  18. Since switching over to scalps 4 I don't use VM much unless its for something I created in it b4 I started using scalps. 1 issue when I go back nd try to use it is the constant error messages and it needing to close the program, sent in several tickets or whatever as the program closed. well now cutting old designs its doing some odd cuts that wasn't in the original design. will post up some pics a lil later to show what im talking about. in the 1 the word is "parking" the bottom of the letters have the odd cuts. mainly the P A K. the next for some reason it has split a letter. it def didn't cut these like this when I made these yrs ago. again will load some pics as soon as I can
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    printing vinyl

    ok , so I see this subject brought up a few times on here. someone awhile back posted he had decent luck using an Epson artisan printer. with I take it using the pigment ink cartridges that comes with the printer. then the most recent discussion. with this last post im unsure if the previous post had the luck he stated. well I have a couple Epson wf 7610s im messing with , I bought refillable carts, and the pigment ink with Htv yellow . I was hoping to make some heat transfers and maybe start printing some sm decals. but again with reading the last post, seems decals are not possible with this equipment. this past week I found an hp wide format printer, but after researching it, it also uses pigment inks. its model t 770. its been sitting so ive looked up printheads and ink carts, both hp and aftermarket. printheads are cheap compared to other wide format printers. and the co I bought my Epson refillable carts from offer them for this printer. also reasonable. any one ever tried to convert 1 of these printers to latex or any other ink that can be used to print on vinyl? or the same old question of being able to print on vinyl with a pigment or dye ink
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    printing vinyl

    @Wildgoose well that just reminded me what kind of jeep guy u r. lol. I now rem the specs on your last jeep. just like as u was explaining, most don't get the differences there. I probably did as usual and put too much info of different things I was looking to do. and on this other printer im looking at . will try to do better with the Epson printers, I have 1 set up with refillable cartridges that im going to use for make heat transfers. the 2nd 1 if possible would like to set up to print sm decals and labels. now for the 1 I was wondering about converting/changing type of ink. its a hp T770. it seems to b priced cheap enough, but if all I can do is the same stuff as my 7610 just wider, not sure I need to invest in that right now. I started researching cost replacements, printheads, in carts and anything else I could think of since it is a used machine. and that's when I realized it uses the same ink as my 7610. so found out it only had 3 2 color heads. which cost less than $100 ea. and the same co. I ordered my refillable cartridges for my 7610 offered cartridges for it. after discussing printing ink with my friend @Primal Decals realized the issues with trying to print vinyl with this ink. so looked on US cutters site at HP printers they offer and noticed the replacement print heads looked similar and were close to the same cost and that's why I wondered if a conversion is possible.
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    printing vinyl

    ok , so I see this subject brought up a few times on here. someone awhile back posted he had decent luck using an Epson artisan printer. with I take it using the pigment ink cartridges that comes with the printer. then the most recent discussion. with this last post im unsure if the previous post had the luck he stated. well I have a couple Epson wf 7610s im messing with , I bought refillable carts, and the pigment ink with Htv yellow . I was hoping to make some heat transfers and maybe start printing some sm decals. but again with reading the last post, seems decals are not possible with this equipment. this past week I found an hp wide format printer, but after researching it, it also uses pigment inks. its model t 770. its been sitting so ive looked up printheads and ink carts, both hp and aftermarket. printheads are cheap compared to other wide format printers. and the co I bought my Epson refillable carts from offer them for this printer. also reasonable. any one ever tried to convert 1 of these printers to latex or any other ink that can be used to print on vinyl? or the same old question of being able to print on vinyl with a pigment or dye ink
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    Today's score

    great score!! Im with eprcvinyls, I don't ever run across those kinda deals, even with Our main biz being a high end consignment shop. we don't carry electronics unless their new in the box. Mainly clothing, household décor and furn. along with my vinyl decals and signs. now have added htv shirts and hats. we keep doing so much with painting furn , this last 6 mnths or so my vinyl has been put off to the side lines, only getting to do any when customers order.
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    used us tech laminator

    I picked this up, and so far haven't used it. what is 1 of these worth
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    Help with a Roland PNC 1000

    just seeing this, if I'm not mistaken he was running sign blazer and something happened/ shut dn or something like that it. I didn't kno he was trying to set the old roland back up. I will have to get with and him and see if we cant get it back up and running