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There is a sequence to follow - you load the USB driver, BEFORE you plug the plotter in to the PC and turn it on. It fails to connect if you turn it on first.

Freehand paint it. It'll take you 2 weeks to psych yourself up to do it, and 15 minutes to actually do it, if you know how to use a paint brush properly. This being a sign forum, one might hope so! ;)

(That's the colour bars getting in the way of the crop mark detection.) I solved it by putting white masking tape over them - just run a strip of masking tape over and it won't register they're there, as it's looking for black lines.

The Mimaki website has all past exe files for the varied legacy equipment they've made. You can go there, search, and download it. There are LOTS - just look for the right one. You will need your original Finecut installation CD to verify you have it, but the files you download are stand-alone...

P.S. 20+ Years ago the rule of thumb among many letterheads was to avoid any plotter named after an animal or bird... ;)

'Cheap' ? I'd stick with Roland or Mimaki plotters. We have an ancient PNC1300 (that's 950 mm wide) and a CGFX2-130 - both are brilliant in work. BUT you will need the software to get the Mimaki going. However it is better than the old Roland basic Corel>Print preview. Those Creation P-cut...

Thanks for the reply - if there's no chemical difference, then it's only a software hiccup is it, that won't allow A, B & C to be used?

This question may be sacreligious to some, but it's still a question to me... and the reason I'm asking here will become plain in a moment. I have about 23 unopened original 792 ink cartridges, and about 8 partly used ones, 3/4 full. I had stocked up on them three to four years ago when I...

Thanks for the reply - it's weird though - you'd think that for simplicity, and considering the machines are the same printing width, that they'd stick with the one style/size...

Hi I have spare parts for our 260 - including 22 ink cartridges, 10 or so heads, 2 head cleaning cartridges etc but also a spare belt, encoder strip, and sensor with it. Someone locally is interested in the belt and encoder-I'm wondering if they'd be compatoible with our L360, and worth...

I've done the belts on the 25500, and the 260 - and never took the top off only the 2 ends of the L260, and I think only the console end of the 25500. Just be exceedingly careful to not dent or kink the encoder strip - not break the encoder strip ends which are under a lot of tension, as is the...

I can;t send you anything if you don't message me your email address first! I keep saying this! :)

Bu default, Com1 serial is setup in Corel. You need to go into Corel Finecut menu near the plotter blade icons, and find the setup menu. Tell it USB. (not com1)

For those who wondered... same issue... it took a day of tearing my hair out, install, uninatall, repeat...and trying alternate USB leads... The instructions are pretty poor, but you need the Mimaki driver (eg v 4.8 which might be 25 meg or 45 meg), and the other little driver file that's v1.6...

The question really is "Why would you keep him?" The 2nd question is "Who will pay for the repairs needed?"

Sometimes reinstalling Finecut helps - it finds Corel on the 2nd try, after you click 'yes' to the "find corel toolbar' But you do have to have the right version of FC for the version of Corel and for the version of Windows you're using.

Drive a nail in the middle, a loop on some string 25 ft away, and put chalk or a sharpie in the loop, and walk the circle out.

Sounds like it can't sense its own head carriage movement - like there's an issue with the encoder reader. Maybe you put it (the strip) back incorrectly fed through the carriage. (I hope you didn;t kink the encoder strip.)

This has been asked & answered many times here, before. Just use the 'search' funtion.

Here's a long time, late reply - but the other thing I found when mine would not render Post script/PDFs, only JPGs, was to regenerate the PDF, to be compatible with acrobat version 5 or 6, and not 9 or newer. Suddenly PDFs ripped and previewed just fine again. As well as setting Jaws to be the...