darcshadow

Did you purchase it used? Did you ever see it work? Does the cutter head move? If not, check the belt and the stepper motor that drive is.

They are stripes in the flag. Which now that I look at it, the flag is backwards! The star field should be on the left.

And after thinking about it more, if you're just using these as stencils for painting, you only really need to separate the dog. The flag you can just paint blue, using tape/cardboard to cover the area you don't want paint and then repeat for the red. No need to use two stencils and have to fight with getting lining them up.

Once the image is a vector there should be a command like break apart. That will allow you to pull the dog away from the flag easily. I would then draw a box over the star field of the flag and duplicate the flag and box. Move one copy of the flag and box over and then punch to erase the field leaving only the strips. On the second one do an intersection command which would leave only the star field.

That might work, but it only says it goes up to Windows 8. I would say there is a reasonable chance it'll work on 11, but no guarantees.

That "should" work. My two concerns are: 1) Is it a legitimate TrippLite Keyspan adapter. 2) TrippLite no longer makes those, so are they supported on newer OS'es, you may not be able to find a driver that works on Windows 11. Unfortunately, I see two concerns with the card slice linked too as well. 1) It's a PCI card. PCI Is on it's way out and new computers don't always have PCI slots anymore, they have PCIe. 2) The drivers provided are for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, 2003. So that card likely won't work on Windows 10.

If you can find a card to add the needed port to your computer that would be my personal preference. The Keyspan adapters referenced here are for the 9-pin serial port. They work quite well and are easy to setup. It doesn't look like Tripplite, the makers of the Keyspan, make one for parallel ports anymore. Finding anything parallel port related is going to be a challenge. It's hard enough finding serial stuff anymore. I would recommend going the serial route. Serial is fading away as well, but it'll be around in some form for a long time still.

There are a varieties of ways. The most straight forward way would be to node edit the image and delete all the nodes not on the bird you want. I don't remember what exactly VinylMaster calls it, but you can apart the design, then delete all the parts you don't want. Depending on the design you may need to merge the remaining parts back together to get the correct look. This is some pretty basic vector image design stuff. I find the best way for me to learn is to just start playing around with all the tools/buttons in the software to see what they do. Next option would be to google how to do something, There are videos out there on how to do anything these days.

Their computer has actual serial ports, so no need for an adapter, they can plug directly into the computer. Even has 2 ports, so could plug one cutter into port 1 and the other cutter into port 2. Just a matter of setting up the software at this point.

I would suspect the calibration of the one axis is off and needs to be adjusted.

ok, if that's the case then, yeah, you just don't have the comm settings configured correctly. I'd forget USB, and go back to using the serial cable.

Did you have the correct serial cable? Most cutters require a null modem cable.

The USB Serial Port is most likely your cutter. Right click on that and change the port number to 3 or 4. Then in Vinyl Master select the comm number you just set in the Device Manager. You have two comm ports in Device manager, do you actually have two DB9 ports on your computer? If you do, I'd recommend just getting a serial cable and go that route, no need for drivers.

What do you consider pricey? This place will custom cut panels to the size you want for $26. https://www.coremarkmetals.com/3105-h14-white-painted-aluminum-sheet?srsltid=AfmBOoqkT7ogjVsLY53wUgIrugexb28OrOaZViTT7c7wJVGY6N6FQulb

What exactly does the roller error message say?