Recent content by New Guy

I bought my copy of X3 from that site shortly after X3 came out. I was more than pleased with their service. I'd buy from them again (and will).

If you download it instead of ordering the box version, I don't think you get the manual, which includes all of the vector graphics and font samples. I use my "catalog" all the time for looking up stuff. I can't imagine not having it. Just something to consider. You might be happy without it.

I feel dirty because we bought an "off brand" plotter about a year ago. We bought it because we had one particular use for it, which consisted of about 5-10 minutes work a week. It was cheaper to buy the plotter than pay the shop minimum to the guy who was doing it for us each week. It quickly...

Just inside the material, maybe 1/4" inside each edge of the material.

I'm using Cutting Master 2. Yes, you can manually enter the size, but I'm unsure what the effect is when you have the plotter reading 12.5 as the width and you send a 14" wide job over. I think it won't cut it. It'll see that the graphic can't fit on the media, and it'll stop short at the 12.5...

I have a really basic question and I already feel stupid for asking, but I'm swallowing the little pride I do have an asking this question. We have a new FC7000MK2. 1) Can someone explain the way it measures the media width. Clearly it's not reading the width of the material? When I put a...

I seem to be having increasing issues with getting vinyl to stick to latex paint. Some paints, it's no problem, but if it's fresh paint, it's almost always been a problem for me. In all the numerous phone calls I've made to various vendors for support, almost everyone of them tells me the same...

Phone was ringing as it finished cutting, it was Graphtec confirming that exact same thing. Thanks for the help! Good golly this machine is fast!

Problem solved! When I changed it to GP-GL on the LCD, I didn't hit enter. Seems to work well now!

About 6 feet. It's the one that came with the machine. I did reinstall it and noticed the only choice on the install is GPGL, and I remembered seeing HPGL selected on the LCD. I changed that setting and now I don't seem to get the error, but it shows "working" on the LCD and then it goes away...

Forgot to add, in case it matters, it's going to Cut Master from Corel X3 Plug-In.

We just got our plotter yesterday, already had the plug-in installed, went through and setup the drivers, and make sure the settings were for Graphtec USB, but every time we send a job from Cut Master, it shows the progress, it always shows the filename as "untitled" and it goes right through...

That's what I was trying to avoid. I don't have a printer and don't want one, and I can't get people around town with printers to react quickly. When I get an order for something like this, I need it in a few hours, not a few days, so I'm trying to work my way around those issues.

Thanks, the application I bought it for was for contractors working in office buildings. The often have to restrict the paths their workers use, like the elevator. They always want their workers to use the service elevator, so a static cling sign, maybe 6" x 8" that says "Contractors Use Freight...

Can I use Rapid Tac to wet to release it? I feel stupid now, as I recall doing a job using Rapid Tac and I recall how easily the stuff came off when the paper was saturated. Thanks for bopping me upside the head and getting the hamster back on the wheel.