Pledge: Vinyl
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
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.
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.
Quick setup guide :
- Set inkscape to hpgl output
- draw figure and print to a file
- set serial port to 9600 8n1, crtscts.
- connect blue cable (a 9-pin gender-changer is needed at the PC end)
- load vinyl, switch cutter on. cutter should park at right hand side
- press Setup, cutter parks at left. Move cutter if necessary with cursor buttons, press Origin Set to mark lower right corner of drawing
- cat the inkscape output file to the serial port
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.
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.
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;
Pledges
Running total: £40
Approximate target: £???
Total paid-up: £0
