(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.
