budracer1

Ok I currently own 2 summa D60/U machines and 1 older Summa D610, and im possibly looking to sell all three to purchase a Roland GX-24. The main reason being the auto contour cut feature. I can contour cut through flexi with my machines, but I have to manually digitize the points, which isnt a great big deal, but when your doing 20 to 30 tshirt tranfers it sure does hurt production time. My question is this, With the GX24 how does the contour cutting work with flexi. With the Summa, i create my contour lines, then go to rip and print and after I have my printed image i load it in the cutter and send to cutter and it will have me digitize my points...will the GX24 automatically do this then or is that only through cut studio? I really like flexi and I hate to move from one software to another to design , cut etc. PS. if anyone would be interested in any of my cutters in NC let me know. Thanks JB

In Flexi with your graphic selected click on the contour cut tool. It will give you options as to how far out or ib you want to cut. After you have done all that, click on Rip and Print. This will bring up your work screen. Go to the advanced tab, then choose contour, then make sure that send as seperate jobs is checked. Next you will click send. When you hit send, it will send the job to your printer. After you have the sheet form your printer, load it in the cutter and go to Production manager on your pc. In PM look for your cutter in the set up list on the left, it should have a plus sign beside it letting you know that there is a job waiting. Click the plus sign and the job will show up in the right, click on the job and then click send. You will then get a pop up that ask you how you want to align the marks. For your cutter you will have to choose manual because its not able to digitize. Choose manual and you will get a screen that says align mark 1 and there will be directional arrows on your screen. Use the arrow to move the head a paper til the knife is directly over point 1, do this for the 2 or 4 points whichever you set it up to do then it will tell you to click ok to start cutting. I know that's probably confusing and I could probably walk you through it better on the phone so if you don't get it feel free to pm me your number and ill call you. JB

How do you line up the registration marks on cutter that doesn't have a laser? Can you walk me through the procedure. I'd like to experiment with that. I'm also using 8.1 Pro. What cutter do you have?

I have flexi 8.1 pro and it contour cuts fine, I just have to manually line up all the registration marks. JB

Hello Im using Flexi Pro 8.1 and a Summa cutter. Right now if I want to cut anything I do on my laptop i have to send it to the production manager on my desktop since thats where the machine is hooked. I was thinking i should be able to cut straight from my laptop, kind of like I can print from any pc in my house. Any Ideas? thanks JB

You are my HERO.....works just exactly like I thought it should. thanks a BUNCH!! JB

Im pretty sure You have to change all those setting in windows printer settings. I made several profiles on my printer setting so I can easily switch back and forth. JB

Yes I can do this(send to PM on desktop then cut from there) but I was thinking i should be able to cut straight from my laptop.

Well kinda... i guess. I mean I have all my computers networked together so that all my laptops and desktops will print on the printers hooked up to my main pc. I would assume that you could do this with a vinyl cutter also but maybe im wrong....the summa doesnt show up on the printers screen to enable the sharing like my printers do. JB

I mean without having to have it hooked to my laptop. If you can help with please do tell...lol

I have just got my new Summa cutter and with my Roland I used SBE and Cut studio. With the summa I cannot use cut studio and there is 1 file that i desperately need but SBE will not open CST files. Is there a way to convert cst files. Im not sure I have enough time to redraw the graphic. Any help will be greatly appreciated. JB

Nevermind, I got it

I originally bought a Roland Camm-1 PNC-950 off the BST here and have had awesome service with it but my business has grew and Im looking to move up to at least a 24" machine. I have read and read and it seems the more research I do the more I get confused on which cutter I want. Im looking to spend up to 350.00 to 400.00. I have been looking at the MH721 as well as the MH871 since there only $20.00 difference. Then theres the 31" cutter from signwarehouse thats price pretty nice too. I also have a friend with the lazercut used that I can buy pretty reasonable. I do a lot of small stuff too for RC cars and I dont want to lose the ability to cut from small scraps like I could with my roland. One other thing....I need my new machine pretty quick so could anyone give an idea how long for delivery if a USCutter machine is bought from ebay? How about the one from sign warehouse. What are your opinions? thanks JB

Ok scratch all that lol...I bought a Summa. Its a used Summacut D60/U got a pretty good deal I think and from what I understand Summa is one the best cutters out there. Thanks for all the help and suggestions. JB

Ok getting closer...supposed to know something on the graphtec tomorrow. If that doesnt work out .... which of these is the better unit Pcut Seiki GCC Sable

Ok I may have just found a real deal....I found a used graphtec ce3000mk2-60 24" cutter on craigslist for 500.00. Its not really in driving distance so Ill have to have the guy ship it but he said that would be like $50.00. I know this is an older graphtec but my roland was probably 20 years old. What do you guys think? JB

Yeah I have checked .....How about a Pro -Cut cr630 http://www.cutterpros.com/proddetail.php?prod=cr630 JB

So the Seiki is going to be my best bet in my price range?? Thanks to all for the info JB

How about this one ?? http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-28-Vinyl-Cutter-Sign-Cutting-Plotter-USB-24-25-32_W0QQitemZ270553019831QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efe3775b7

http://www.signwarehouse.com/p-SPEC-R31-PAC1.html

I guess I should add that I do not use my cutter everyday. I do small work for local businesses by word of mouth, but Ive turned down a few jobs because my roland would only cut 12 inches wide and It wouldnt track 4ft straight. So what im saying is 10 days a month maybe is the expected use of whatever I buy....does that change opinions any? JB

As far as Im concerned vista is compatible with vista...lol..... I have upgraded all my vista machines to XP JB

8.1 but to be honest, most of the stuff I do I use Sign Blazer JB

That looks like a good deal...I would love to find it without the flexi though as I already have flexisign pro. There probably charging 60 or 70 dollars for that. JB

The buy it now ad with stand is the one I was referring to, some say 16 to 21 days and some say 11 to 16 How about the good ole mh721?