In July 7th–10th, Redsail attened sign exhibition in SHANGHAI and got great sccuess. Lots of customers from different countries visited our booth and had nice meeting. Many orders comes and Redsail is enlarging the production!
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Success in APPPEXPO SHANGHAI
Saturday, August 29th, 2009How to install a plotter?
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
(1) Place the machine:
Put the machine on a horizontal table, change plotter four foots, to keep plotter very horizontally. Make enough space not only to the front of plotters but also to the back of plotter.
No shake when plotter is running. Don’t touch the vinyl cutter with magnet. Put the plotter in cleaning room.
Suggest you connect the machine’s metals shell with the ground using a
metal wire, to avoid ESD.
(2) First power on, examining plotter:
Set the power wire to machine power port, connect the power wire to AC220V power. Switching the power on, the green LED on keyboard will
light when power is on. Later, the carriage must move to right side itself, and return a little. This is the initialization of cutting plotter. The message of
speed and pressure will be showed on the LCD monitor. Followed are the
machine parameters:
Speed: 600mm/s
Pressure: 150g
(3) Connect to computer:
You can choose the computer port (com1 or com2).
Turn off the computer power; turn off the plotter power.
Connect one side of the RS232 wire to computer RS232 port, other side be
connect to plotter.
Turn on computer; turn on the plotter, waiting a moment for machine
examining itself.
Run the any Sign software (Such as Easycut; Flexisign; etc), choose
“HPGL language cutting plotter”, and setup the software parameter as the
following:
Port: com1 or com2
Baud rate: 9600
Parity: None
Data bit: 8
Stop bit: 1
Data flow control: RTS/CTS; XON/XOFF
Above is done, every thing will be ok. If the red LED on keyboard is light,
please press the “ONLINE” key one time. When the green LED on keyboard is
light, you can output the data from computer to your cutting plotter.
Now you had seen how the plotter working.
Settings in Artcut Software
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Our standard software is called Artcut which is a professional signmaking software for plotter working.
It is easy to operate and has a chart gallery. When make settings in artcut, there are someting we need to mention:
1. choose same com port with PC and software. See below: when “link to” com 1, we should choose same port for “port”.
2. choose Sequential Control as XON/XOFF and RTS/CTS
3. Then in setting “vinyl cutter Compensation”, please choose “Close” as 0.97, and sharpe angle as 0.38. It will help you to get a better working result.
Basic Information about Cutting Plotter
Monday, January 5th, 2009A cutting plotter ( or sometimes it is also called vinyl cutter) is similar to a regular wide-format printer, except that it uses a cutting blade instead of a writing stylus or printer head. Instead of adding ink to paper, it cuts shapes out of raw materials, often vinyl. Cutting plotters are used to create packaging prototypes, signmaking and to cut out letters. Cutting plotters can be set up as a single function devices, or as multifunction tools that can both print and cut. If you are interested in buying a plotter cutter for your business, there are a few things you need to know.
Basic features of a plotter cutter
If you are looking for a basic plotter cutter then there are three main features that you will want to examine.
- First, look at the size of the machine. Since size is going to impact the cost of the machine, you don’t want to buy a cutting plotter that is oversized for the projects that your company does. On the other hand, you also don’t want to buy a plotter cutter that is too small to handle the projects you have on deck. Redsail will provide different models with different sizes.
- Next you will want to look at the cutting force of the machine. Most machines will have a range of cutting forces that you can select from such as a cutting force range of 30 to 500 gf (gram force), so ask the dealer what cutting force is required for your application.
- The final feature to look at is the cutting resolution. The cutting resolution will determine the fineness of the lines and grooves that you will be able to make. Cutting resolution is usually measured in millimeters per step.
Cutting Plotter cutting out from coreldraw directly
Thursday, December 18th, 2008There are 2 ways you can cut out from coreldraw:
1)Use a printer driver
2)Use Plug-in software for coreldraw
Redsail offers a plug-in software for Coreldaw named Cutmate, it support the Redsail Cutting plotter or Vinyl Cutter work with Coreldraw 9, 10, 11, X3, X4 version.
Please contact your local dealer or Redsail sales team to get more informations about Cutmate.