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| [[File:Roland (Large).jpg|thumb|right]] | | A [[Equipment/VinylCutter | vinyl cutter]] has been 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. |
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| Model is a Roland CAMM-1 PNC-950. It hold up to 610mm (24") media and cuts up to 584mm ( ~23"). Length is essentially unlimited as it can use roll-feed media but seems to be restricted to 25m.
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| Manual: http://www.signcutpro.com/files/man/roland/pnc950.pdf
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| FAQ: http://support.rolanddga.com/Docs/Documents/departments/Product%20Management/Product%20Information/Specialty%20Products/PNC950_FAQ.pdf
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| The cutter has been 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.
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| ==Operation==
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| 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)
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| * 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.
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| * The serial cable (blue, with a 25WD at one end and a 9WD at the other) is connected as follows :
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| {|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
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| This provides for hardware (rts/cts) handshake. Software flowcontrol may be OK but the cutter manual suggests overrun may occur.
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| Quick setup guide :
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| * Set inkscape to hpgl output
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| * draw figure and print to a file
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| * set serial port to 9600 8n1, crtscts.
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| * connect blue cable (a 9-pin gender-changer is needed at the PC end)
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| * load vinyl, switch cutter on. cutter should park at right hand side
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| * press Setup, cutter parks at left. Move cutter if necessary with cursor buttons, press Origin Set to mark lower right corner of drawing
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| * cat the inkscape output file to the serial port
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| It should be possible to enable the serial port as a printer and print direct to it, but I found this produced cutter errors (flashing power light) and no cut.
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| The following file was generated by inkskape for a star shape. This almost works : the first leg is replaced by a poorly cut arc. May imply a need for some sort of initialisation data.
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| IN;SP1;PU3999,6429;PD2693,5186;PD929,5557;PD1707,3932;PD809,2369;PD2596,2606;PD3805,1269;PD4131,3042;PD5776,3778;PD4191,4636;PD3999,6429;PD3999,6429;
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