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All those error codes are in your user manual telling you cause by code number. Most Graphtecs have the same error codes. This is pretty much the same thing for a CE6000. Saying to make sure the pinch rollers are outside your registration marks. Some users have to put their vinyl on adhesive cuttings mats, so there is plenty of room outside the registration marks. I don't use ARMS, just throwing this out there, that it may be the reason.

Best is Flexisign pro, but you don't spend $4k and put that on a value cutter. Your tech support is Craft Edge and that is who you should be contacting.

Your TEST cut straight from your TEST button on your machine, should be a perfect square and triangle. Is it? If it is not, then you are wasting your time doing any setting changes. That has to be perfect first.

That is too much blade offset. Should start at 0.25 mm and adjust at 0.05 plus or minus.

If your square measures correctly, you don't need to calibrate it. Did you cut a square and it doesn't measure correctly by the sizes you entered into your cutting software?

At the top of your layout screen, should be HELP, look there, or go to the Craft Edge Forum for Sure Cuts A Lot. Search online. I don't own that software. pretty much any software has Calibrate cutter to software. Very few people here use Scalp. The CRAFT EDGE FORUM would probably give you more answers than here.

Also, since you are using a different software, you should calibrate your cutter to the new software. You can check by making/cutting, a 3" x 3" square. Measure it and make sure it is really a 3" x 3" square, It not, then calibrate your software until it is correct,. 3" x 3" square.

Can you post some photos? They speak volumes on to what problems can be. As long as they are not copywritten. What do your TEST cuts right from the machine look like? (photos) It must be correct first, before you cut any design. No mention how you ever set your blade depth. Too many users see to use a credit card or post it notes, to set blade depth, and this is 10 times too much blade exposed, and will cause many problems. Blade depth must be correct, before making any other settings changes. https://forum.uscutter.com/index.php?/topic/39196-setting-blade-depth/

It could be a very long wait to get an answer here. Just contact Roland support. There is only a couple hand fulls of members here that answer questions, We are mostly cutting vinyl. I am here almost every day, I don't know of any of us that owns a Roland BN20-A, that has ever been mentioned. We are just volunteers here. Roland has a forum.

Only by using Windows. Bootcamp etc. Or purchase a cheap windows computer. You don't need a fancy computer for vinyl cutting. I am still back on Windows XP laptop on my FC 7000. Graphtec. I pick up cheap computers on EBAY. But I also have a FC8000, I picked up cheap Windows 7 and added Window 10 to it. One member on here converted her Mac to Windows, so she could use The Graphtec Pro Studio. Which is pretty much like Flexisign Pro, without the RIP. With Windows, you can also use the Graphtec Cutting Controller, which is a big PLUS. Change settings right from your computer. Only a couple Mac users here who answer questions. Most of us are Windows users. This forum is volunteers answering questions. Best to have a designated computer for your cutter.

If on Windows computer, didn't you get FREE Graphtec Pro Studio software with that cutter? Over a $1000 free software program made by Flexi. Design and Cut for Windows only. Even if you still wanted to design in Illustrator, you could still cut with it.

I just told you how to do it. Read it again. I don't use your software. I use Flexistarter. Go to the top of your layout screen, HELP. should be there. Look for Resolution. Calibration. HELP is your user manual for your software. If the size is already correct, then you don't need to change it.

Since you have purchased this cutter, have you ever calibrated the cutter to the software? It should be done. Cut a 3" x 3" square. Then measure it. Make sure it is exactly 3" x 3". If not then you need to change the step size (Resolution) in your cutting software, so the size is exact. Make sure your pinch rollers are the exact same distance from the vinyl edge.

You never mentioned at first that it was a 2nd hand cutter. If gouged up like that, they sure didn't know how to set the blade depth correctly. If using Clean cut blades, start with almost nothing force and work it up a little at a time, or you will break the blade tips off.