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    When I boot mine up,it boots with 24 i.p.s. and 100g downforce everytime.I just have to make a mental note to check the settings before I cut or plot.I did the art with the cutter.Most of them were ran in the advanced tab in flexi as a single job-send all colors-pause after each color.That gives you a chance to change the pen to the next color.And when you send it as a single job,you never move the product you're plotting on.Just remember to seperate the overlap before you send it to plot,or you will have your colors printing on top of each with a solid pattern.It doen't show you that in the preview before plotting.You also have to slow it down when you are plotting.If you run it at 36 -48 i.p.s.,it will run faster than the pens can supply the ink to the tip.Thanks!I'm glad you like my work.If you have made impressive cuts,you should post some pictures in the tips and tricks section.

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    This is a spinner sign I made for my guitar parts company.IT's around 15 x 18 with red vinyl on white coroplast.I ran a rod trough the vertical flutes,then bent the ends 90 degrees and mounted it to a block of one by.I hung it about 7 feet high on the north corner of our house.We had a cold front come in the days I hung it,and that sucker was flying!The coroplast makes it light enough to spin it with very little wind.And the flutes are perfect for making a spinner sign,either vertical or horizontal.You just have to remember how you are going to mount it and make sure the flutes are in the right direction when you mount the vinyl.

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    I have done fairly large cuts.And plots that run over an hour and a half.I have had no problem with the one meg of memory in the cutter.I want the 4 meg upgrade as a buffer to insure I don't have any problems with the larger jobs.If you use the holographic films for a large job,and the cutter reads a write port error,your only option is to restart the job.Although I have not had that problem,I want to never have that problem.I can't tell you if there is a benefit to it beccause I have not recieved the memory yet.And as far as I know noone has done a 4 meg upgrade.I will post as soon as I get it to let everyone know if it helps and how easy or hard it is to install.

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    Oh it's much worse than that!If you do use the point editor,try not to overlap too much because it will actually put a negative area in the space on some lettering and edges.And be sure to blow it up as big as you can on the screen.It looks good and closed up when you are looking at a 6 foot design scaled down to fit a 19 inch screen.But when you blow it up you get a better view of what the cutter is actually going to cut.

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    If you check -auto weld and auto trap - in the advanced tab of the program manager,it should help on closing the lettering.Although I use the point editor from the design menu and manually close the lettering.It just cuts down on the program missing sending the close commands to the cutter.On the other question.I clean the vinyl to cut down on the dust,but I've never heard of lubing the vinyl.I would think that anything like that would make the knife jump or skip  if it hits a slick film on the vinyl.

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    I have cut as small as 3/16 th's with no problem other than trying to see the small centers when I weed it out.It could be possible that it is the vinyl.The company I buy from locally has had to replace quite a few rolls of fdc black vinyl that their customers ordered because the rolls had mottling in them.But I have had no problems with the small letters or designs as far as the cutter goes.

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    I guess they are loud.But mine is right by my desk,so I hear it real good.Being a musician most of my life,I tend to do most of my work at night.My wife says the sound of R2 lulls her to sleep.So I guess the sound has it's good and bad qualitys.And I have had no tracking problems with mine as long as the carriage brackets are level and tight.If you don't check it and make sure you have the vinyl feeding straight,it will track off.But I use the trace on flexi to make sure it's tracking right before I cut.On the small letters,I have done a few t-shirts with a large back and small logo on the chest.The chest lettering was 3/16th's of an inch and it was a little tedious weeding it out,but it cut well with no problems.And the maximum cut area on the 721's is 57 feet.I don't know about the others.But it should be able to handle a 53 foot job with no problems.

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    When you go to the other forums they are naturally going to tell you to get a higher end cutter because that's what they have done.It's like me when I talk about R2.I  have no problem telling everyone how great I think these cutters are because it is what I am using.And it's also made me more money in four months than my embroidery machine has made in two years.I also have been a musician for over 37 years and I sell guitar parts.I have found through selling guitar parts that there is one main company that makes 95% of the parts used on every new guitar made.A name does not make it a better product.It just makes it a more expensive product.And with the price of theses cutters,you could afford to buy another as a backup and still have less money in them than a roland or graphtec.A high end cutter could wipe out a whole years profit if it broke down and you had to replace it.I think it's up to the individual on his choice.But if I had to buy a higher end cutter I wouldn't have one right now because of the price alone.

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    They did write a good review.The only thing I didn't understand was the part where they said throw the blades away and get better blades.They are roland carbide blades.I think they work fine.The vinyl,I don't know about.I didn't get vinyl with mine.I didn't read the discounts because you have to register to read the forum posts.Forums are great,but I don't like having to give my name address and phone number,just to read a post.Thanks for the info!

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    I'm glad you got it running.They had a major storm accross the pacific northwest and it knocked the power out at uscutter.They said they have no way to heat the building,so they would not even have phone support until possibly monday.As for the artcut,it sounds like a problem to me.Have you tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it?Other than that I can't tell you because I use flexisign and have not had any experience on artcut.I drove by a devry institue once.They had nice trees.