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The cutter is being donated by Tomwardill, with a small stock of vinyl. However, we will need more and Tom would appreciate donations towards the cost of his larger stocks. Please indicate if you can help. | The cutter is being donated by Tomwardill, with a small stock of vinyl. However, we will need more and Tom would appreciate donations towards the cost of his larger stocks. Please indicate if you can help. | ||
==Operation== | |||
I have had a certain amount of success running the cutter with a serial connection from Inkscape under Linux. More messing around is needed.--[[User:Artag|Artag]] 13:32, 19 August 2010 (UTC) | |||
* Sometimes the cutter refuses to print or respond to any buttons. This hasn't happened since I opened a door in the bottom of the printer and poked an EPROM there, so may be due to some poor internal connection. | |||
* The serial cable (blue, with a 25WD at one end and a 9WD at the other) is connected as follows : | |||
{|border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" | |||
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|Cutter, 25 pin male D ||PC, 9 pin female D||Use | |||
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|pin 2 || pin 2 || PC RXD from cutter | |||
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| 3 || 3 || PC TXD to cutter | |||
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| 4 || n/c || cutter pin 5, RTS CTS loopback | |||
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| 5 || n/c || cutter pin 4, RTS CTS loopback | |||
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| 7 || 5 || ground | |||
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| 20 || 8 || cutter DTR to PC CTS, flowcontrol | |||
|} | |||
This provides for hardware (rts/cts) handshake. Software flowcontrol may be OK but the cutter manual suggests overrun may occur. | |||
==Pledges== | ==Pledges== | ||
