Betreff: readback button function | Name: jerry jaran (jjaran@yahoo.com) | 23.04.1999 03:35:20
Hi Hans, My salesman at novamax is not an experienced user so I must ask if it indicates the remaining width of vinyl available to cut next? I used cocut once at smartdesigns and thought that it did. My demo now shows a box that says it can't read the port. I have of course, a null serial cable and use Procut W/Corel 5. I bought a new computer and have Corel 8 now.
All past answers:
Dear Mr. Jaran, CoCut indicates NOT the REMAINING width of vinyl. It only has the possibility, to read the width of vinyl, which you inserted into your plotter. But not all plotters support this function. You have choosen the wrong port or a LPT port if the demo says, that it cannot read the port. LPT ports do not support the read back function. Best regards Hans Friedrich Holz / Support
Hi Hans, I chose Com 1, the only serial port I have. I would think that the ability of a bridge program to indicate the remaining height of vinyl to cut should be a BASIC FUNCTION. For me to have to go to my cutter with ruler to try to measure this accuratly is ridiculous! Many, if not all times, this info is extremely important. Unless you can reply diffentley I'll have to keep looking.
Dear Mr. Jaran, which plotter do you have? A null serial cable normally is not delivered with plotters. They mostly use a special cable which you only can use with plotters of the same manufacturer (like Mimaki, Roland, Summa, ...) Reading the width of vinyl IS a BASIC FUNCTION of CoCut for all plotters, which support the command for reading the width. Most of the newer plotters support this function, but not all. I wrote, that CoCut does not indicate the REMAINING width (e.g. if you have 500mm vinyl width and you plotted an object of 200mm height without setting a new origin behind the object, CoCut then does not set the origin above the object and gives you 300mm as remaining width). If you insert vinyl into you plotter and the plotter measures a plottable width of e.g. 456.23mm CoCut then enters this value into the "Foil Width"-field after you pressed the "Read back"-button. Best regards Hans Friedrich Holz / Support
Hi Hans, I have a Graphtec FC1200-50 and have been using the two way serial cable since I started 4 years ago. Does the demo stop plotting after 8 objects? Is this why it won't read the port?
Dear Mr. Jaran, if your Graphtec is set to GPGL and if you use the "Graphtec FC Series" driver of CoCut, then the width of the plotter can be read, if the COM port settings are set correctly in the system control (normally 9600Baud, 8 Databits, 1 Stopbit, no parity, Hardware protocol). Please be sure, that your plotter uses the same settings. The demo version stops after 8 objects, because it is a DEMO version, not because you cannot read the port. Best regards Hans Friedrich Holz /Support
Hi Hans, Everything is set as such. O.K. I see that answers the question. At the time I didn't think I had already tried it 8 times. Thanks Much
I have Mimaki CG-75fx and am running corelx3 the plotter is in "host" and the "step" size is set at .01mm BUT the "read media" is not the correct value, it appears to be the size of the graphic we are cutting nor does the graphic cut the correct size, it cuts much larger