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I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Do you have a link to the "poor man's contour cut" or can you tell me what you mean by that? Did you try reinstalling sign blazer? Also there is a UK version on the us cutter Site you can try.

Did some more testing on yet another computer but unfortunately still no positive result... Every time I get stuck at the same point... Whether I am on USB or serial... no difference Recap : I would like to be able to contour cut without manually aligning my vinyl... (after all my cutter supports this...) I am using Signblazer 6.0.21... I am able to do a normal cut... If I manually align my vinyl and set my origin point correctly, I can perform a 'poor man's contour cut' ! this works fine... But when trying the Cut around Print (with correct print/cut workspace settings) - I align both registration marks, works fine... - As soon as I hit "Cut the Print" Signblazer crashes... So to me it looks like my Signblazer version might have an issue with the scaling/rotating calculations and crashes... Is there anybody that is able to perform cut around print with success ? If so, can you please tell me what version of signblazer you are using ? Much appreciated !

OK, thanks.

Someone in the forums provided a good equation for R.T.A. vinyl (handing the customer a ready-to-apply product, no installation required on your part) Add the Length + Width of the material, divide by two, and that is what you charge. For instance, 3+8 is eleven, divide by two, that's $5.50. for ONE In your job, you have 100, so you will use approximately 200 running inches of material (4 across, 25 rows at 8" = 200") 200 + 12 = 212 divide by two, you are at $106. total. I would probably go with the rounded-up number of $1.50 each. Sounds reasonable, right?

Revived my old pc which has two serial ports and tested with both COM1 and COM2 as well as USB. Cutting the design without 'cut around print' works... But the issue remains when trying to Cut around a print... After aligning both registration marks, hitting 'cut' causes Signblazer to crash... So maybe I'm facing a bug in this specific SignBlazer version ? For those who use Signblazer to contour cut, what version of Signblazer are you using ?

TomasB, Been there... Tested Signcut Pro even before trying Signblazer... For me contour cut does not work correctly, I do align to both marks and the contour cut gets compressed so it cuts fine close to the zero marker and inside my print on the other side... I did all calibrations etc... I could not get it to work correctly But all this is off topic as we are talking about SignBlazer here ... Hi Skeeter, Yes I am on USB... I have no serial ports on this pc... I can send the cut perfectly without using the cut around print option... Meaning the poor man's contour cut does work... So I'm not sure it's the communication between PC and cutter but it does not hurt to try... This means I need to get a hold of a Keyspan adapter... (Or find some time and revive my old pc, it has a serial port available... This way I can test) And you are close as far as identifying the cutter, it's a Redsail Thanks and crossing my fingers a serial connection to the cutter will fix this... I'll keep you updated !

His Cutter setup in Signblazer says Refine MH1351. So,, I would guess that is what his cutter is..

You don't state how you are connected to your cutter, but if you are on USB connection, put it on serial or a keyspan adapter. Worth a try. Always better on serial or keyspan adapter. It might help avoid your crashes, when sending to cutter.

Some might not like what I have to say but...... SignCut it has a free trial before you buy, not really expensive either. Signblazer gave a ton of problems from the get go , especially contour cutting. Others have had a good go with it but not ME! Goodluck

Thanks top63 ! It had nothing to do with the origin and/or centering ... Your first comment was right ! Although the page was set for A4 the actual page in the print view was smaller... I guess I initially resized to have my registration marks closer to the printed surface... So it seems registration marks drawn in the print screen are drawn from 'workspaze size' and resizing here is not communicated to the cutting part of Signblazer... But it is easy to set width and height for the cutter work space... So just measure the size of your page in the print view and correct cutter work space size accordingly... This needs to be done for each print/cut job I guess... For me I think I can work out where to print my registration marks !!! (with a bit of trial and error) Great ! I seems to be getting close BUT after aligning my 2 registration marks when I want to send the cut job SignBlazer crashes on me I can cut OK, it just crashes when trying cut-around print so it does not seem to be related to my cutter... I'm almost there and now this ? Bad Signbazer version ? I am using 6.0.21 Does someone have a version of Signblazer with working cut around print ? Or any hints on what else I could try ?

Yah im honestly confused because for how much I charged him, it was over the price it should have been. He told me he had a 41" x 41" window and he told me the writing he wanted on it. I charged him per letter for that size and he was perfectly fine for the price. Either way I didn't lose money and I didn't budge on a return so I think I came out okay on this one.