Thanks to all of you!

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I just received my new 24" Laser Point cutter. I want to thank you all for helping me decide to do this. I have been using my Craft Robo for shirts and small vehicle graphics but size limitations made me want to go bigger. So far I've managed to set up a stand for it and read the manual. The only thing I cut so far is my finger when installing the blade in the holder. My first cut and I haven't even plugged it in. I'll try not to be a pest but I know I'll have some questions. This is actually a Christmas present from my wife but she said I can set it up and make sure it works. Then she'll wrap it up! We'll see about that. Thanks for all your useful information. Steve

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

Welcome and enjoy the new toy - the blades are very sharp!

[CRD 9]

Read the new bie manual in the instructional section first. :-)

Paco

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Thanks guys, I decided to take your advise and read the nu be manual. I still haven't plugged this thing in yet. I'm hoping to read a bit more and be ready by the weekend when I have some time to play. I have some experience having used the craft robo but I need to learn this machine.

[Guest HowardI]

Setting up a laserpoint is a little different that a craft robo.  Laserpoints don't show in printers so don't be concerned when it doesn't.

They are good machines and many people use them daily.

If you have questions you are always welcome to call us!

Enjoy the toy!

Howard Irwin

Support Specialist

US Cutter

425-481-3555

888-298-8143

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P.S.  Be careful with the blades, they're sharp! 

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I finally got the time to start setting this cutter up. After reading the newbie manual and the forum posts of people having problems, I crossed my fingers and fired it up. I powered it up and everything worked like in the newbe manual said. I installed SB, then plugged in the USB cable. It was a little rough here for me because I wanted to install the driver from the supplied disk but VISTA immediately began searching windows update for drivers. I let it do it's thing and it said the drivers were installed. I checked the comm port settings and went into SB to setup. I thought I had it set and tried a test cut, nothing happened. I restored my system to before installing the driver and tried again. Same thing. I went back to SB setup and found that there were more choices for com port settings and I finally picked the right one.

    I put the pen in the holder and tried the test cut square. It drew a perfect square but the pen was always on the paper. I moved the pen up in the holder a bit and it worked. Next, I made a simple graphic in SB and sent to cutter, it worked.

    Now I have a question. I've tried a few more graphics with the pen but I'm having trouble getting the design centered on the letter sized paper. I know it has to do with setting the origin point. What is the best way to do this? Do you just guesstimate? Any help would be appreciated befor I put the blade and some vinyl in to try it.

[CRD 9]

Always make origin point in the right handside corner at the front of vinyl you want to cut.

Make sure your vinyl/paper size is large enough to comply with the design you are going to cut/plot.

There is no need to center as long as it is on the paper/vinyl.

Paco

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I was good and waited until Christmas to actually put a blade in and try cutting. I got a few different rolls of vinyl to start with. My first try was with a holographic film that I used 60 degree blades on. I did a test seemed to cut well, so I tried making a license plate. The cutter cut well but weeding small letters with this stuff is tough. letters lift off the backing paper very easily. I did get it finished anfd I think it looks good. The cutter works good and I'm happy.

[Guest Hugo Valencia]

if you are making a small cut and the vinyl is lifting try to slow down the cutter by pressing online, once the cutter says X=0 y=0 press press mode until it says speed and lower it, also check the blade and make sure its not over exposed, should only be out about half the thickness of a credit card.

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Thanks for the reply. I did slow the speed to 20 and the blade seems right. I was thinking it should be out a bit more as it doesn't mark the backing at all. I'm not sure it should but with the craft robo you could clearly see where the cuts were made by looking at the backing paper.