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Thanks MZ and thanks for sharing all that you have in the forums. I was given a full 24" roll of TransferRite Ultra paper tape and I have been unable to use it. Every time I go to unroll, it starts to tear up. I am assuming the roll is just older and the glue has gone bad. I will give that paper tape a go. I get that clear tape just holds the water in vs the paper after a lot of reading online when doing wet installs. I read that you usually do large format jobs. When you do smaller jobs do you change the roll sizes? Right now I basically only use 2 colors and just have x2 24" rolls and I try to optimize my jobs so I use most of the sheets width. Trying to keep my waste down. I was thinking perhaps I should run 12" rolls as well. I started reading up on oracal 751 and 951 then stumbled upon a ton more vinyl that Oracal offers. Apparently they even have a 751RA or air release. It's all a bit overwhelming.

Hi all, I run a USCutter TITAN 3 and so far have used oracal 651 for most of my projects. (walls, laptop skins). I was wondering what people were using for car decals. I know you can use 651 on glass. 651 being calendered vinyl doesn't like to bend too much from what I have seen. I have a project coming up where the decal will need to go on a front fender that has a pretty good contour. Would 651 applied via wet method (using paper transfer tape) still be the best approach? Or would using something like oracal 751 (cast) work better to conform to the contour? I have had made a couple of laptop skins using 651 and applied using the dry method and plastic transfer tape. I always end up with a lot of small bubbles and while the vast majority tend to go away a week later, I still some. Which lead me to thinking that perhaps using either a wet application or 751 would work better. Also wondering what transfer tape (Both paper and plastic) recommend with 651/751. Thanks and I hope everyone is having a good Christmas!

Hi everyone, didn't realize there was an intro section, but after reading a few threads found out about it. I come from a design background. Started in print then decades ago went into web development/design. Picked up a USCutter TITAN 3 about a year ago and have been doing mostly decals (oracal 651) for various ends including portable walls and laptop skins.

Just wanted to thank everyone for all the info in this thread. Today I redownloaded the latest version of scal 5 and it seemed to fix the problem. I am now able to communicate and cut with the cutter just using the auto setting. So exciting! @haumana thanks I took off the protective tape. I also rotated the strip, and I noticed that the strip is held down by double sided tape. Assume that it came like this from the factory since the tape above had the vacuum holes punched perfect. I did a few practice samples using ORACAL 651 (2.5mm vinyl) and a small logo. I changed the pressure and speed a few times. I am still using the old double sided tape till my new tape comes in and the blade that is in the unit. Tip is ok and not broken. Thanks @MZ SKEETER I did a few tests today using a logo (2" x 5") to try and dial in the pressure. I am still seeing some lift. I just rotated my strip around. Will keep trying to dial in my settings. Should I be using a logo to dial in the cutter or a simple shape like a box or maybe a star. What does everyone like in terms of vinyl cutter blades? I will need some 45s and 60s. I have seen that some of the more pricey ones are made of cemented carbide. The blade is probably the most important thing. Any tips and tricks or recommendations here?

Thanks slice&dice, I'll give that try. I saw one of the uscutter tutorials mention tape or glue. I'll give that a try. I see that VM does have a light version that looks like it's just for cutting. I do all my artwork in illustrator moving on two decades now lol. So the cutting software would just be for dropping and resizing possibly in terms of work flow. Are there specific things that can be done in vm that can't be done in ai?

Thanks everyone, I'll give uscutter support a call on Monday and post back on the driver issue. From what I have read they have pretty good support. Looking at my "cutter", the original owner did a few cuts just to make sure the machine was working for me. He was using oracle 615 and his design had a lot of small circles. For the most part the cuts came out ok expect for the small circles. I saw a ton of lift on those sections. I have to change the blade on the machine. While I was cleaning up the deck today I also saw that the tape running on top of the cutting strip was a bit unstuck which may be causing some drag. Also noticed today that the cutting strip on the right side is a bit cut up. What do you guy and gals think? Should I replace these right away or do they still have some life left? Looking at the strip, I am assuming he has his needle down to far as there is some indentation of the actual plastic (it's not just the tape on top that is torn)

@MZ SKEETER Hi, no I did't see an option to download the driver in SCAL 5 during or even after installation process. I looked up some directions on the uscutter site and they had scal 4 which did include that in the menu help tab. But even then, when I looked at scal 4, while it showed Titan's none said Titan 3. I have the cutter on and vinyl loaded and top roller down.

Thanks for the fast replies everyone. @slice&dice I work out of illustrator so just basically need to drop my artwork into the app to print. VM looks like its a bit more of a full suite from the site. @haumana I have the printer connected to the pc using a usb cable directly. Before I turn on the the printer this is what I see in the device manager. Once I connect then it adds the USB printing support. Then I right click properties I get this: Not sure if this correct port location or if that info is inside the details tab (Which has a ton of options) Info wise I see this one as well:

Hi all, I just purchased a Titan 3 28" cutter. I am currently trying to figure out which software I want to use. VinylMaster or Sure Cuts Alot. When I install SCAL, and then connect the cutter and then check to see if SCAL can do a roller test nothing happens. I manually selected the cutter in the settings Nothing happens when I do the test roller function