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I bought a cutter as I needed to cut masks for repainting the lettering and graphics on several of my push bikes. After some initial difficulties with the cutter it's working OK. I haven't bothered cutting and applying any of the things I have cut yet, if you discount me covering the bezel of my monitor in my test bit's. I just tried applying a mask to a tube, it's the lettering "PRO-PULSE STAYS". The text is black letters on a white outline back ground. I put a small circle at each end for alignment. I was intending on: 1) Paint the area the lettering is on black. 2) Apply the lettering mask. 3) Paint the area surrounding the mask white. 4) Apply the outline mask. So now I have the letting and outline painted and masked, I can paint the tube the final colour and when I remove the masking I am done. I prefer to paint with a positive mask, covering black with white isn't a problem with basecoat. Problem I hadn't though about is the application tape is opaque, I just tried cutting the circles out of the application tape, by hand, not perfect but it did work, my hands aren't steady enough for cutting small masks that's why I bought the cutter. the lettering mask and outline mask I just put on look ok, but when they are painted your eyes are going to be drawn to them if they are off at all. Any ideas on how to do it? I am just about to see if I can use some ancient frisk masking film as application tape!

I will get a new blade holder to rule that out. I tried cutting a cross to see what the corners were like, some look like to much offset and some look like not enough! I set the offset to zero in the software[the machine has an offset setting] and I got a fairly clean cut, still not perfect, but much better.

I bought a Pcut to cut some masks from painting bicycle frames, I have that many push bikes;-) The bloke had it from new and said he had always had troubel getting it to work, I am guessing he only used USB and it won't work with the Hardware handshake setting, Xon Xoff works? I got some discs of various software. I was going to use the plugin for illustrator. If you select the wrong port says it fails to contact the cutter, if you select the right port it sends the data; but nothing happens. I did run a port anylser but I think I need to run it with a programe that cut's so I can see if theres any difference. I couldn't see anywhere to check the port settings in the pluggin, just a port to select. I tried signblazer, I didn't like the look of it but did get it to send and cut but it cut several versions of the same thing slightly overlapping, which I have since figured out are probably things on other layers in the Ai. I tried flexisign, worked fine, well I think fine. I will attach a pic. to give soem idea of size, the capital B of the logo is .28 inch high. I have what is probably the original blade holder with the machine, with a blunt blade. I was given a roland blade holder and pack of blades some time ago. So I stuck the roland holder, with a new blade in, in the cutter. The blade seems to have a lot of wobble in the blade holder; is that what caused the wiggly lines? The machine also has some deep cuts on the plastic strip, how does that effect the cutting?

I made the excuse my old eyes aren't up to hand cuttingt masking for lettering on bike frames and bought a vinyl cutter. I found this Pcut CT0630 for sale and the bloke had bought it new and hadn't used it a great deal as he had trouble getting it to work. I was pretty pleased with my self when it started cutting, Just got to get it cutting nicely. So I joined the forum..