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can anyone help get my plotter to work?
Hello
I dont know what ive done… but i cant get my potter to work. am working signlab 8 and when i click on the cut button it start to cut
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PU222, 408;
PD188, 402;in 2mm writing! then it gets so close to the pincher it comes up with off scale and stops
Please Help
Martin
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14 Replies
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Sounds like you switched the language over on the plotter. Should be HPGL i think.
Al.
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A good friend of mine had this very problem but he was using a dodgy copy of signlab everything else worked untill he tried to cut .I dont use this software myself but dont you need a dongle for signlab.Sorry in advance if im barking up the wrong tree
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Martin has Signlab 8.0 Kevin.
Martin are you still using the Graphtec CE? as Alex suggested have you accidentally changed the language setting?
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Brian/Alex
I don’t know. how do I check the language?
Kevin
all my software is a above board!
Martin
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Sorry Martin can’t remember off of the top of my head, will find out tomorrow if you don’t have it sorted by then.
Do you still have the cd that came with the plotter? the manual is on there. The cutter can run in either HPGL or GPGL. It will tell you how to change from one to the other in the manual. Think you have to press pause & next etc. to get there….
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when i go in to cut menu in signlab / plotting defaults / the selected driver is graphtec CE5000-60 (HPGL)
And now it is starting to cut on the opposite side of the plotter!
Am not sure what i did. but was working on signlab and my plotter was off. when i turned it on there was some kind of warning or message came up on the screen! i was in that big o a hurry i just pressed ok. stupid mistake!!! so its changed some kind of setting!
Ive still got all my cds. and was thinking of putting the graphtec cd back in mite reset back to normal? what you think?
Martin
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Martin, you can also change the language on the cutter that’s what I meant not the software. As I recall it flashes up HL or GL when you switch it on. Have a look to make sure it says HL if you are using the HPGL driver in Signlab.
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Right it says GL on my plotter. am searching threw the Manual as we speak
thank you
Martin
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Ive got it to cut text now. Thank you again.
Still a small problem tho. when i set up my plotter Ive always started @ the bottom right hand corner of the media. but it wants to start @ the bottom left hand corner and in my preview in signlab my text goes across the width of the media and it starts to cut across the length of the media.
Martin
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Martin you have changed the start point of origin, you should be able to change it back on the plotters menu if it is the same as older graphtecs.
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Hi Martin
Just checked the plotter menu and on the command setting its set on L.L (lower left) and its cutting length instead of width
Martin
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Hi folks sorry for still being a nag
Still having a wee problem with this plotter :banghead: thinking maybe its some thing to do with landscape and portrait settings? as it cutting the width of the roll instead of the length. is there any setting for this as Ive looked every where and for what i can see every thing set on portrait!
Ive even looked in the robo master program in case its change something in there but no joy 😕
Thanks
Martin
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think you have rotate switched on in the plotter menu
chris
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Hi Chris
Yeah that’s what it was. Thank you, Thank you. 😀
Strange i was never in any of that bits of the plotter menu! so how on earth did it get changed al never know… technology it drives you crazy sometimes!
Martin
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