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Wanted to follow up my post in case it might help someone else. Here's what I've discovered for my setup. 1. Get unwanted cut to origin and no weeding border using the plotters internal USB to serial converter (4800baud and 9600baud) on both OSX and XP. 2. Using Prolific USB to Serial Converter with OSX yeilds the same results. ( I got a reply from Signcut web support that http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/homepage.spml might work better) 3. Using Prolific USB to Serial Converter with XP works even at 9600baud! No unwanted cut to origin and a proper weeding border. So having a working setup is the good news... still bummed I can't get things happy with the Mac but once I get the feel for thigns working properly maybe I'll try the keyspan converter and see if I have better luck. Casey

Wanted to follow up my post in case it might help someone else. Here's what I've discovered for my setup. 1. Get unwanted cut to origin and no weeding border using the plotters internal USB to serial converter (4800baud and 9600baud) on both OSX and XP. 2. Using Prolific USB to Serial Converter with OSX yeilds the same results. ( I got a reply from Signcut web support that http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/homepage.spml might work better) 3. Using Prolific USB to Serial Converter with XP works even at 9600baud! No unwanted cut to origin and a proper weeding border. So having a working setup is the good news... still bummed I can't get things happy with the Mac but once I get the feel for thigns working properly maybe I'll try the keyspan converter and see if I have better luck. Casey

I've posted this in the Mac Forum but wanted to add one here as well since this problem doesn't seem limited to a particular OS. I'm using Signcut with a USCutter Refine 721 24" cutter on a Mac G5 Quad with 10.4.x vi USB with all updated software/drivers. The hardware completes all it's tests correctly and will cut the signcut sample but when I export a graphic to Signcut from Illustrator CS2 leaving all other Signcut settings as their default a cut is made from where the graphic was completed all the way back to the origin and the cutter is left in the down possition. (I'm actually using the pen and paper for testing) I have set both the the machine and Signcut baudrate to 4800-baud as recommended and unfortunately get the same results. Looking through the forums it seems some have had luck with external USB/Serial Adaptors and other sign cutting software but there seems to be little consensus on what the problem actually is. Has anyone been able to identify what the problem actually is and it's solution? Thanks, Casey

Just wanted to add another voice here... I'm using Signcut with a USCutter Refine 721 24" cutter on a Mac G5 Quad with 10.4.x vi USB with all updated software/drivers. The hardware completes all it's tests correctly and will cut the signcut sample but when I export a graphic to Signcut from Illustrator CS2 leaving all other Signcut settings as their default a cut is made from where the graphic was completed all the way back to the origin. I have set both the the machine and Signcut baudrate to 4800-baud as recommended and unfortunately get the same results. Looking through the forums it seems some have had luck with external USB/Serial Adaptors and other sign cutting software but there seems to be little consensus on what the problem actually is. Any more ideas? Thanks, Casey