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can anyone help with PCut cutting problem please?

Posted by George McKay on 2 January 2006 at 05:08

I have recently purchased a PCut CTN630 (USB vesrion) and am having the following issue, can anyone help?

When printing using ArtCut 2005 (supplied) the cutter will commence cutting, but part way through ceases the current cut and cuts a straight line to the end stop. The screen displays ‘Waiting".

I have to turn the printer off to reset it.

COM1 is set to 9600 baud.

This is very annoying, as I have not been able to complete a test sign yet…

HELP!!!

antonio replied 19 years, 2 months ago 8 Members · 11 Replies
11 Replies

Alex Pirozek

Member
2 January 2006 at 14:13

I had the same problem as have others with the pcut and artcut. It seems to be on Win XP only. I managed to hopefully solve it on my machine by the doing the following.
In Window device manager go to com ports and then select properties for the com port you are using. Enable flow control as HARDWARE. Then in Art cut on the cut plot section, change the device from Put 630 CTN to DMPL by clicking on the device button, then on the drop down list choose others in lowercase, then on the right should be DMPL and then click add and it should add it to the list of installed devices below. which you need add on to the list. Back in the “set Engravers/Routers Output” window make sure the link to is set to the correct port and then click setup on the right. I always found that the port was always grayed out and I had to select the correct port before every cut I did. Sequential control should be the following, DTR/DSR (Ticked), XON/XOFF (NOT Ticked), RTS/CTS (Ticked). The next tab (Plotter Compensation) should be, Close (Unchecked), Sharp angle (Ticked) & set to 0.5mm which is the blade offset I think, Plotting accuracy = Middle, Delay = 0ms. The rest of the set up shouldn’t make any difference. With these settings on mine I managed to cut all of the jobs I had problems with, also if you can remove any unwanted nodes in your design before you cut by selecting nodes and then to Node Edit and then Curtail. This will reduce the amount of unnecessary data going to the cutter and slowing it up.
Glen Mathers

Member
10 January 2006 at 19:20

Have you tried it with a serial cable connection? I have the same machine as yours and have used the same software that came with it and it worked fine but it wasn’t USB. If this don’t work try getting hold of Signgo software, it works a treat with the P-Cut.
George McKay

Member
11 January 2006 at 19:55

Thanks Alex, I tried those settings, but no change I’m afraid. Couldn’t curtail the Nodes though, the option wasn’t highlighted.

It’s funny, because it cuts ok from pltdraw.
Alex Pirozek

Member
11 January 2006 at 20:15

Did you highlight the nodes in the design before going to the node menu, the curtail option wont be highlighted unless you select them. (drag a square around the nodes you wish to reduce)

Alex.
pedro manuales

Member
22 January 2006 at 20:48

Dear George,

Are you plotter running ok now?
Have you solved your problem?

Regards.
Pedro From Spain
Please replayme ( I think that I can help you)

quote George McKay:

I have recently purchased a PCut CTN630 (USB vesrion) and am having the following issue, can anyone help?

When printing using ArtCut 2005 (supplied) the cutter will commence cutting, but part way through ceases the current cut and cuts a straight line to the end stop. The screen displays ‘Waiting”.

I have to turn the printer off to reset it.

COM1 is set to 9600 baud.

This is very annoying, as I have not been able to complete a test sign yet…

HELP!!!
George McKay

Member
23 January 2006 at 11:42

No, it still won’t cut properly from ArtCut, but cuts OK from pltdraw.

I downloaded a demo version of Signtools for Corel draw, and it won’t cut at all using this software. It must be because this is the new version of the cutter with the built in USB-Serial interface, not the old Serial one.

If I could get Signtools to work it would be great. To be able to cut from within Corel would save a lot of effort.
LOST

Member
30 January 2006 at 19:18

hi just wondered have u tried useing the usb port?
Mark Reed

Member
30 January 2006 at 19:53

hello there, I recently upgraded my laptop and as this had no serial com port I had to use an usb to serial adaptor,as my creation 630 is the earlier serial port model. I had to create a com port 1 on my computer but still my cutter wouldn’t cut so I went into device manager- ports- found the created com port then- advanced settings, and found you could slow down the rate at which info is transferred to printer. this was set to max as a default but once turned down by one notch cutter started to work ok. may be this info will help.
Jet Black

Member
27 April 2006 at 03:17

Hello George.

I was wondering if you managed to correct your problem with artcut?

I had the same issue, and may be able to help you if you haven’t found a way around the problem
George McKay

Member
19 July 2006 at 11:01

Sorry for the delay, passed the unit on to my son. But anyway the problem persists, if you have any ideas it would be great….
antonio

Member
19 July 2006 at 11:51

I had problems with my new pcut 630 plotter and I post here:
http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … 495#161495

Pedro manuales, escribeme, si hablas español tengo algunas dudas. info@toniton.com