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ah yes. it's unticked. i'll have a go at putting the plotter on the floor. thanks

where is the "send arc commands" feature? thanks

will try that now mate. i've checked, checked and rechecked the port settings, even tried changing the baud rate lower (in flexi, on the plotter and in device manager) to no avail the roll of vinyl does seem really static, so i'm inclined to beleive it's static based. i assume this will still be covered under my warranty if the head has been damaged?

right. i beleive it to be well grounded from when i purchased it. i've got another laptop coming next week i've borrowed. it has a COM port on it and running XP, so i'll see if it works from that. if not then i'll be getting it exchanged under warranty. apart from that is there anything else i can try in the meantime?

surely the static should dissapear as soon as it's grounded? when i whipped the side off it it was grounded to the plug which i would assume sufficient? i can't really see how grounding it to an otherwise insulated stand would improve it but i did it anyway

just tried signblazer and it's putting random horizontal lines through the test cut. so i think that removes the chance of it being due to the plotter software right? at least it's one thing ticked off the list. any more ideas?

i forgot to add that it's been running happy as larry for 2 months, been throwing some rediculous jobs at it and it's been fine (1-200 intricate logo's at a time) INCLUDING the design you see above ^^ not sure what changed, i don't think anything. just woke up one morning and it started spacking out. it's connected to the serial/COM port of the plotter using a known working belkin USB adaptor so i highly doubt it's that. i also tried the prolific drivers but couldn't get it firing so disregarded that almost as soon as i bought the plotter and dropping down to windows XP seems a little extreme right? could anyone recomend another peice of software i could try with it (freeware/demo etc) just to rule out it being due to flexisign?

hi all, i was wondering if you could settle my conundrum, here's the situation i'm having: Four things are happening that i can see: 1. drawing random lines wherever it chooses 2. not drawing lines it's meant to 3.drawing lines it's meant to wherever it wants 4. stopping dead and reporting a "write port error" in flexisign (8.1) now i've searched the forum and the cry of static and grounded seemed to be my answer, so i cleaned up the grounding points and wired the stand into the plotter and it's not really done anything. i'm using good quality belkin USB -> serial converter which works fine with another serial device i have (VAG COM), windows 7 64bit, flexi 8.1. only thing else i can think of is i bought another serial lead to try out but that didn't even work at all my suspicions is that it's a plotter/hardware fault but the seller i bought it off seems to think it's a software fault (trying to get out of sending me a new unit methinks) any advice you could offer would be a godsend, i'm all out of ideas