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  1. mat

    A couple issues with a MH 721-MK2

    It's a step by step wizard (set of instructions) just follow it through... when completed successfully a Chinese cutter will not round off corners of T's and H's etc.
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    A couple issues with a MH 721-MK2

    The key to setting up Chinese cutters to cut as sharp as possible using VinylMaster is to set the Blade Offset. There is a Blade Compensation (offset) utility in the Vinyl Spooler.
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    A couple issues with a MH 721-MK2

    In VinylMaster there is a utility (Cutter Scale) in the Vinyl Spooler under the Calibration tab that will assist you to set the correct scale.
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    New and looking for feedback

    You're mixing up two completely unrelated issues - cutting vinyl signs and contour cutting long lengths of printed artwork from any printer. I'm not saying the other brands don't track well, they do - very well (I still have a FC2100-50 which tracks well after 20+ years)... but every cutter loses accuracy when it goes back and forth dozens of times and a small loss of accuracy over a few feet soon becomes a much larger number as it is multiplied by the number of movements back and forth, and this is the problem when cutting lots of small decals over a long distance, where each decal has a tight registration of say 1/32" around the edges. This issue is far less apparent or an issue when just cutting vinyl. Of course the other issue is the accuracy of the printed artwork itself which is often done by a third party. The results from printer to printer with regards to actual print size, skew, rotation, and the bow the print carriage may have can be quite significant when measured. So what I am pointing out is that the Saga (Titan) with Dragon Cut (Razor Cut) deals with this problem by working down the roll of printed artwork using their ARMS controller and the laser sensors which continually adjusts the cutter to match the printed artwork, meaning that even after cutting for 20 feet or more on skewed and warped print files it is still amazingly accurate. Unfortunately, at trade shows and at demos most manufacturers tend to demo only a couple of feet of contour cutting that in no way proves the cutter is very accurate over very long distances. What impresses me is that Saga put their cutters to a real life test in front of everyone at a huge trade show. My point being, that even if a Summa etc. can contour cut 20 feet or more of detailed printed artwork without losing any accuracy along the cutfile that’s great. But so can a Saga with Dragon Cut or a Titan with Razor Cut and for a lot less money - plus they’ve proven it in the field. So if you’re on a budget it’s a good choice.
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    New Cutter Setup

    Did you run the Blade Offset from the Calibration tab?
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    New and looking for feedback

    All I can tell you is what I've seen at various shows and demos and if you have a couple hundred decals of different sizes to cut over 20 feet none of them remain accurate by the end of job, but the Saga I saw cutting at a show did and even after 20 feet it was still cutting around each decal to within a 1/16 of an inch around the edges of each decal! It's the only machine and software I have ever seen do this consistently.
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    New Cutter Setup

    That make of cutter must be set as Direct COM in VinylMaster which is easy to set up in the Vinyl Spooler. First make sure the cutter is switched on, has vinyl loaded and ready to cut a test file. You can open the Vinyl Spooler from the File (menu) > Cut/Plot > Vinyl Spooler. In the Vinyl Spooler, click on the: - Connection tab (top right corner). - Then in the Connection Method > Port Type, select Direct COM Port from the drop down. - Next in the section directly below this, click Detect and follow the instructions in the wizard. Thanks Mat
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    New and looking for feedback

    If you are on a budget then you cannot go past the Titan 3 with RazorCut because the software has full blade compensation that you can adjust for the machine in YOUR shop which means within a few minutes tweaking you will get just as good a results as any Roland or Graphtec cutter. The other major advantage the Titan 3 with RazorCut has which Roland, Graphtec, Mimaki and Summa do not is the ability to contour cut yards and yards (meters) of decals with super tight registration and within a 16th or mm or two... I saw the machine working in Shanghai and I've never seen anything anywhere near as accurate as the Titan 3 (Saga) and RazorCut... there is a video here:
  9. For full ARMS support only RazorCut will operate the Titan 3 correctly and will work running Bootcamp quite well...
  10. If you PM me I can email you an SC driver which you can import into Razor Cut... it's easy! Thanks Mat