User guide

Setting up the cutter Operation Instructions SC Cutting Plotters
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CONNECTING THE POWER CABLE
1. Make sure the plotter’s power switch is turned OFF.
2. Plug the plotter-end of the power cable into the connector at the back of the plotter.
3. Plug the other end of the power cable into an electrical outlet of the correct voltage
and with a proper grounding.
COMMUNICATION SETTINGS
In order for your plotter to be able to communicate well with your host computer, the
communication settings on both machines have to match exactly. Please refer to the
manual of your software to determine which communication settings will be used by your
software. Your cutter is able to be set up to use any settings necessary.
You can proceed in two ways:
•
You can check which of the 5 possible defaults matches your software and enable this
particular default setting.
•
You can set all communication parameters yourself. In this case, for communication,
select USER DEFINED.
To do this proceed as follows
:
1) Install a PEN in the tool head.
2) Load an A3-size ( B-Size) sheet of paper or larger into the cutter (short side
first).
3) Switch the cutter to OFF-LINE by pressing the ONLINE button.
4) Now you can enter the MENU-MODE by pressing: ENTER &
(SETUP).
5) The cutter now plots a MENU-SELECTION LINE (example below).
MENU: xx.xx:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SHOW
This menu selection line will give you direct access to :
•
32 different cutter settings.
•
a
SHOW function
which will plot the actual settings on an A3-size
(B-size) sheet.
6) After having plotted this line, the user can park the tool head above any of the
options using the or JOG keys.
7) When ENTER is pressed, there are two possibilities :
•
When ENTER is pressed with the head above
SHOW
, the current settings
are plotted. Afterwards, the tool head is returned to the MENU-SELECTION-
LINE.