Connection to vinyl cutter

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There are several ways to connect the vinyl cutter:

1. Connecting with a driver (like a printer)

2. Connection via COM port (USB-COM or COM-COM)

3. Connecting via flash drive

Connecting using a driver (like a printer)

1. Install the driver for your vinyl cutter. If you are unable to find the native driver, you can find a suitable driver from another device, as they are all very similar.

2. In the cut output window, select the installed driver as shown in the screenshot below:

3. Turn on the vinyl cutter.

4. Press the Test button to test the connection to the device. The cutter carriage should make a slight movement.

Connection via COM port (USB-COM or COM-COM)

If your device has a serial COM port, you can connect through it for this purpose:

1. Connect a USB-COM cable if you are going to use a virtual COM port.

2. Install the driver for the virtual COM port, you can download it for example here (CH340.zip, 180 Kbytes)

3. After installing the driver for the virtual COM port, be sure to restart the operating system, otherwise the driver will not work.

4. In the cut output window, select one of the COM ports, such as COM1: or COM2:, or COM3:, etc.

5. Turn on the vinyl cutter.

6. Press the Test button to test the connection to the device. The cutter carriage should make a slight movement.

It is also possible to connect using a standard COM-COM cable, for this purpose:

1. Buy a special expansion board for COM port output on the outside of the desktop computer case.

2. Connect it to the computer motherboard as shown in the photo below.

3. Connect the COM-COM cable to the vinyl cutter and computer (note that some COM-COM cables, despite having the same connectors, may have different pinouts and may not fit, in which case the cable should be replaced with another one).

4. In the cut output window, select one of the COM ports, such as COM1: or COM2:, or COM3:, etc.

5. Turn on the vinyl cutter.

6. Press the Test button to test the connection to the device. The cutter carriage should make a slight movement.

Note

When using the built-in COM port, unlike the virtual COM port, no drivers need to be installed.

Connecting via flash drive

If your vinyl cutter has a flash drive connector, then you can cut directly through it, for this purpose:

1. In the cut output window, select File (flash card) (at the bottom of the list).

2. Save the cutting file to a flash drive (the file name should be named as specified in the vinyl cutter's instructions)

3. Insert the flash drive into the slot on the vinyl cutter and turn it on.

See also

Selecting a vinyl cutter model from the list of supported models and presetting it

Vector drawing output to the vinyl cutter