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can anyone help me with signlab settings please?
Hello all,
Recently purchased a mimaki cg-130sp cutter….but am having troubles connecting to my comp.
I am running signlab 7…connected it up today using the serial cable…go to cut something and when pushing remote i get a ERR20 I/O message and a loud beeping. I contacted the supplier of the machine and they said it should be plug and play and is down to the settings in signlab, which in turn is my problem. Do i need to manually set up signlab to connect to the plotter?
Hope this is clear and would be grateful for any advice.
Thanks, Marcus.
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Did you install the driver for it via Signlab install drivers menu?
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yea unfortunately ive tried that and still nuthing……
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Your SignLab package should contain an Installation Manual that provides steps for configuring your machine.
Essentially, you want to go Cut menu >> Plotting Defaults >> Setup >> Port, and set the Port Location.
Cheers,
Rod at CADlink
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Marcus
You probably need to go to the cutter and take it offline.
Press down arrow keys till you get to "SETUP" and press enter.
Press down arrow till you get to "INTERFACE" and press enter.
This should get you to "Baud Rate". Write down the number or set it to 9600.
Then press enter.
THis should get you to "Data Bits". Write down the number or set it to 8.
Then press enter.
This should get you to "Parity". Write down the setting or change it to NONE.
Then press enter.
This should get you to "Stop Bits" . Make sure it is set to 1.
Then press enter.
This should get you to "HandShake". Write down the setting or set ti to Hard.Note.
I would also go to Command and make sure it is set for MGL-II
You probably need to go to the cutter and take it offline.
Press down arrow keys till you get to "COMMAND" and press enter.
Set to MGL-IIThen in Signlab, go to Cut, Plotting Defaults/ and Setup.
Go to the Ports tab, and near the bottom right, make sure the settings are the same as on the plotter. You can modify the setting by putting a checkmark in the Edit control.I would set both Signlab and plotter to 9600,None,8 and 1 with Hardware handshake.
hope this helps.
Frank at Cadlink. -
:lol1: your a lifesaver! Thanku very much for the help…Working perfectly now. I can finally get on with some work now.
Thanks to all that replied.
Cheers. Marcus.
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no point in making my own thread when this ones at the top 🙂 and to do with the same stuff.
i have signlab and i cant seem to get it to cut.
am using a KING EX725? and usb connection. altho when i click cut it comes up with
"cutting to: COM 2
Bytes Sent: 0
Waiting.For.DSR"and the cutter does nothing. ive had the cutter working before on usb/com 2 but since swaping to signlab it doesnt want to work heh.
any help would be great guys.
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I dont see a driver for your plotter in signlab, which one have you loaded, and have you been on cadlinks site to check if they have a recent update?
Peter
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it just runs of an HPGL abs driver. got it working now 🙂 had to change the handshake to cts? and it started working fine. (found answer on here after a few searches)
not sure if this will be a problem or not seeing as i only do small decal work anyway.
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Are you saying that you cured it by changing the flow control to CTS only?
If so, thats great. Thats what the check boxes are for.
By the way, it might also have worked if you changed the flow control to Xon/Xoff and 95% of all machines respond to it.If interested, cutters use either Hardware or Software handshaking to tell a computer to stop sending data cause its buffer is full.
Xon/Xoff is the most popular form of Software handshake using 2 unprintable charachters as signals. Xon/Xoff only requires 3 wires in the serial cable to be connected. These are Transmit Data or TX, Recieve Data or RX and Signal ground. Thats why you will see many serial cables that only have 3 pins and the rest appear missing.
Xon/Xoff is only used to transmit ascii or printable data like HPGL and cant be used for binary data as it conflict with the special charachters used to controll the handshake.Harware handshake uses (or is supoosed to use) 4 other pins,
CLear to Send or CTS,
Request to send or RTS,
Data set ready or DSR,
and Data Terminal ready or DTRDSR and DTR are used to tell the plotter and computer that the other is ON but not neccessarily ONLINE.
Waiting for DSR means the computer thinks the Plotter is OFF or powered down.
CTS and RTS are signals the the plotter is ready to recieve data or ONLINE. Waiting for CTS means the computer thinks the plotter is OFFLINE.Some companies do wierd wiring and jumper pins togther while others dont. Some cables jumper pin together to save money while others dont.
Thats why a Harware serial cable may well work on 1 machine but not another, because somebody did some fancy jumpering or snipping either at the machine end or in the cable to save a buck.Sometimes the serial port is just confused and needs a reboot.
Anyway, glad to hear you sorted it out.
frank at cadlink
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