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Adding plotter to Caldera

toodark

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New to Caldera and I just bought a new plotter and trying to figure out how to add new plotter to software. Anyone have a down and dirty instructions?

Thanks,
 

milchad

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What kind of plotter? Here is where we configure the cutters in caldera:
Go to your printer where you drag and drop your files to be printer, click on page setup, then the cutting tab. There you will see the configure button for the cutter. You then can add what cutter you are running and designate the file location for your cut files.
If you still need help, Caldera support is very good.
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Add a plotter to Caldera

Hi,
Cutters for VisualCut are easy to install with the Software, but a little bit harder manually.

Here is a short tutorial that I hope will help you. Note that this is the same process between V9 and V10. ;)

1) Go to the Settings Tab :

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2) Into Applications Bar, click on "New"

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3) Then select "Cutter" as type of the new application, and the name used for the cutter.
Pay attention that spaces are invalid characters here.
Then, in "Cutter" area, click on "Configure" :


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4) The new cutter may not be in the list, so click on "New" :

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5) Enter the name of the new cutter. Here, space character can be used.
Select the model using scrolling list of all supported cutters by Caldera.

Then enter the path of the queue that'll be used by Caldera to save the cutter files.
Note that you can reach a mounted folder in case of cutter controlled by another computer.

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Click Ok.

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6) Click Ok again, and make sure to restart the Config module (Clinking "Restart").

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7) Now you should have a Cutter Icon in your toolbar :

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Actually, this process is longer than simply "link a cutter driver to an icon" because for one cutter you can select different drivers. Example : Summa can be ran with Summa S2 AND Summa S2 Postnet. ;)

Best regards,
 

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