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Our MH 721 recently stopped lifting the blade up when cutting so we'd see all the movement marks. POsted on here and was told to replace the Z chip, did that- no change. Next, replace the Carriage. Well, got the carriage today (on note- it seems to of been used, from US Cutter, not so happy about that) and my husband actually took the old one apart and got it to flow seamlessly like the "new" one did BUT when he put it all back together it was backwards, we saw the directional path was cut but not the actual part we needed. He told me to pop on here and ask for some wiring instructions. I insisted that if it's backwards then he must of soldiered the wires backwards, he said it wasn't as easy as I thought to remove the solider. In any event, he's behind me un soldiering while I type. Any help is appreciated.

WE already replaced the Zchip, no change, changed the carriage, no change.

Still having this issue folks. Could this be because we are using the Trial of SignBlazer Elements? I've been using the trail for about 4 years now and never had this issue. If this is the culprit (the movement lines are also being cut, not just the image I want) how do I fix it. I don't mind purchasing the product.

Yep. Nevermind. Switched the soldiers around. Isn't the woman always right?

Not sure if some settings were messed with or not but turned my little guy on to cut and now the blade will not lift up. Not when turned on or off or loading or unload or even when cutting. It is cutting my items perfect except you can see many additional cuts where the blade should of lifted and the vinyl shifted to its new spot. It's like writing on a piece of paper with the pen never leaving. Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.

How do we replace the Electromagnet? When moving the arm up and down it makes a dragging noise and it makes a rough cut. if you put a little press on it moving it out it moves freely. It seems either the Z chip helped a bit or when we replaced the (slightly cracked) arm the dragging isn't as bad but you can still see all the movement lines of where the arm should be lifting up and starting the next cut but just drags across the vinyl.

I'll look into this. Thank you!

Didn't work? Any other suggestions?

Thank you!

I have a vinyl cutter and recently bought a roll of the heat transfer vinyl. I just used my iron to iron the decal on the shirt and it came out nice but started to pull apart from the garment a few washes down the line so I assumed I needed a higher heat like a heat press. So, long story short, I've been looking into buying a heat press but other than the actual heat press is there anything else I NEED to have? There are special papers out there I can use a regular printer to print on and then use the heat press to transfer to a garment correct? But since I have the heat transfer vinyl that's a good start right? Just needing some information so I'm sorry if this is a repeat question

Thanks I'll try that out! But as far as NEEDING anything else that's all there really is to it right?

Ok, did that. There were three things one was for a mac, and two were for a windows. I loaded the mac one and did a restart and nothing. Again, we are using parallels but there were no Windows XP drivers just some windows OS and windows 98_ME? When we load the sign blazer on the parallels it finds the serial port and everything but when you Cut it just has a loading box like it's going to cut but never does then it "stops responding" and you have to fiddle with the settings in parallels to get it to stop stop responding... if any of that makes sense?

My husband bought one of the serial to usb cords to use with our MH 721 on our Mac. We are currently running Snow Leopard, by the way. There was some driver that came with the cord but the disc was really small and he said he couldn't get the disc to go into the slot drive (well he tried and said he almost got it stuck so didn't try again) We run Parallels on the mac to use the sign blazer, so we've plugged the serial into the cutting port marked LPT and the usb into the mac and nothing will cut? Any ideas?

I want to get in to using heat presses. I did some screen printing/heat press's in college and back then we would print the image, backwards, on a transfer sheet and then use the heat press to transfer it to the garnet then there would normally be the unused heat transfer paper on the garment. So, as I'm looking around I see there is heat press vinyl. I have a cutter so I'm thinking I buy this special heat press vinyl, cute out my image, weed it and then put it on the garnet all under the heat press, press down and presto? Is this correct? No more printing an image onto transfer paper and then onto the garment? Has everyone had pretty good success in making money with these things? I'd like to have one around in the event people need items (which is why I have the cutter, have owned it since August 2010 and its paid for it self plus $100 including supplies. So I'd essentially want to get the heat press in hopes of it being as successful). Thoughts? Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer my newbie questions!

Long story shot... have had the cutter for just over a year now and have had more dang issues with it than anything. I literally hate doing work on it because SOMETHING always goes wrong. Today my husband and I were cutting birch trees for our nursery they were 94" tall by 7" wide. We placed two on one snd they printed wonderfully. We got them installed and on to the next set (we were doing a total of 5 trees altogether). We put two on one run and hit go the cutter stops 3/4 of the way through the first tree. UGH! We have learned that you need to unplug the cutter after a while (we do it after every use) so the "memory" gets cleared out because we had this issue in the past and have wasted a LOT of vinyl on the subject. Sooo... I'm curious why the first run went through fine, and they were actually large trees where as these trees were much smaller, and now on the second try the cutter starts acting funny. Anyone have any suggestions? I hate to sell the machine because #1 it HAS paid for itself this year we've had it so the little extra income is nice & #2 I like having the option to go cut something for myself if I ever want to... trouble is I'm getting near the point where I don't want to. Thanks for hearing my rant and any suggestions on how to troubleshoot the issues outline above would be very helpful.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll admit I didn't have time yesterday to scroll through allll the posts looking for some title that matched mine exactly. I'm using a Mac OS Snow Leopard with Sign Blazer installed through Parallels, cutting on a run of the mill MH721 (I'm not a cash horse over here, haha) I do use a USB cable and now that you mention it recall a long time ago someone mentioning to use the serial cable. When I get some free time (between my three jobs and being pregnant and taking care of my household) I'll look around more. But again, I do REALLY thank you all for giving me some clues in the right direction as to where I can start my investigation which is great because before it was like feeling around in the dark. Thanks and good day.

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Just got my cutter (mh 721) in my perfect world I want to do this: Design with Illustrator CS2 on my mac and print directly to the cutter. In a secondary perfect world I could create on my mac in illustrator and export to my husbands PC where we could cut it. How close can I get to living in my perfect world?!

I was about to kill myself and I tried all these tips and it worked for me!!!! Thanks guys!

I'm new to all of this and thus far I've had a handful of small projects as well as Huge projects. The real issue I'm having now is the dang taping process. That tape is worse than static cling wrap, haha. So anyway, is there an easy way I can tape a large project? Or will I have to continue to partner up with my husband where one of us bites each others head off because we both think we know best any help/input/other people methods is greatly appreciated

Hi Illustrator users. I'm trying to do a 2 color phone number. The client wants a full color phone number then a stroke behind it in a different color. In Illustrator I made my top color number then copy and pasted and put a stroke on that bottom layer then I removed the top layer, merged in the pathfinder, saved and cut. I'm now at a loss of ho to get the top color printed. I need the top number to be perfectly contoured by the bottom layer but I might of goofed merging that black layer in the pathfinder because it did not cut out the outline part it cut out the sold part... this is hard to explain... it was the same as the top image but with a stroke on it, when I merged it's like to took the stroke away so now, after I've cut the bottom layer I need to find someway of making hte top layer perfectly fit on top. Can't seem to mess with the letters as a whole for some are way of where others are right on. Ugh... how SHOULD I of gone about doing this? any help is GREATLY appreciated. thanks!

Hi all, please don't throw stones at me because I'm new and asking simple questions I have a 59' x 9.5' project. It's just a business phone number in a large font so weeding shouldn't be too hard. The kicker is the client wants the number one color and then for it to have an OUTLINE of another color. I'm a graphic designer so that's no problem putting an outline on the number but what's the best way to do it? Plot out two copies of the number in the two colors or plot out one full copy of number and just the outline.. does that make sense? And then once I get to that point what is the easiest way to stack them? This will be helpful info for any future jobs that require stacking so feel free to elaborate as much as you want (can! haha) And lastly, what should I charge for the project? It is quite large, plus all this stacking jazz? Thanks future answers I appreciate all you do!

I have a large job I'm doing It's someone business phone number going on front of their building window (59' wide by 9.5' tall). she wants one sold color and then an outline. What will be the easiest way to print this big thing out and stack them correctly so there is an even outline? I'm new at all this and this is my 2nd job and it's huge! haha HELP please

I export as .eps to my husbands PC and that runs Sign Blazer...

you make it sound so easy! lol I'm scared I'll F it up Also, does anyone use illustrator? That is what I'm using and I have a question about it as well! thanks )