Dingtec….Any good?

[Shane Drew]

Boab, someone posted on this subject a while ago.

I seem to recall a problem getting the right driver, and getting no reply from the distributors (I think) for support

Cheers
Shane

[Robert Grant]

Hi Shane
Found the post it seems the driver was in Japanese, there it Artcut software that comes with the machine I wonder what lingo thats in. An Ioline cutter has caught my eye on e bay, seems I’ve got myself into a wee muddle, should have kept my own machine.

Cheers Boab

[Juzzer]

Boab,

I don’t know about the cutter, but that Artcut 2002 software is, IMO, friggin dismal. It is quite possibly the worst piece of software I have ever had the misfortune to use. Ever! It winds me up just thinking about it.

To be fair, I did get some vinyl cut using it, but it was so unintuiative, so cumbersome, so poorly translated (from Chinese), that it just wasn’t worth the grief.
If it had turned out to be the only software I could have uesd with my new cutter, I would have thrown the whole lot in the nearest skip.

To anyone thinking of buying one of these no-name cutters from Ebay,
I would suggest you decide what software you want to use first, then find out if it supports the cutter you are interested in.

As is *allways* the case in life; you get what you pay for, I suppose!

Justin.

[Shane Drew]

quote boab:

Hi Shane
Found the post it seems the driver was in Japanese, there it Artcut software that comes with the machine I wonder what lingo thats in. An Ioline cutter has caught my eye on e bay, seems I’ve got myself into a wee muddle, should have kept my own machine.

Cheers Boab

Mate, I had an ioline cutter a few years back. Didn’t track that well over about 3 metres, but I also accept they have probably improved since them.

Since discovering Rolands about 7 years ago, that is all I buy now, but I suppose you dpn’t really want to hear that now 😳

Had graphtecs too, they were a good unit, pretty bullet proof from experience. Can’t go past the Rolands tho

[Joe Mac]

Hi Boab,

I have just bought one of the Dingtec 4′ cutters, but since I’ve never really used a cutter before I’ve nothing to compare it to.

The price was cracking, the manual difficult, but it comes with it’s own stand (one morning to assemble). Artcut is rubbish. I can say that I had a minor issue with the driver, but it runs with a Graphtec GX3000 driver, which came with the machine. I just had to manually install the driver, but it seems to run OK!

I’m selling these machines in the near future – if you fancy one just let me know.

Joe