Pledge: Vinyl
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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.
Manual: http://www.signcutpro.com/files/man/roland/pnc950.pdf
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.--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 :
| Cutter, 25 pin male D | PC, 9 pin female D | Use |
| pin 2 | pin 2 | PC RXD from cutter |
| 3 | 3 | PC TXD to cutter |
| 4 | n/c | cutter pin 5, RTS CTS loopback |
| 5 | n/c | cutter pin 4, RTS CTS loopback |
| 7 | 5 | ground |
| 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
Running total: £40
Approximate target: £???
Total paid-up: £0
