Manually Install Cutting Plotter Device in Artcut 

If you decide to install the vinyl cutter by editing all the settings yourself, please choose DMPL (which means Cutting Plotters that support DMPL command set) Vinyl Cutter under "others". All our vinyl cutters support both DMPL and HPGL command set.

( When you Install Vinyl Cutter Manually )

You may choose to change the default device setting for enhanced cutting performance:

Plotter Compensation

Uncheck "Max Length of Each Plotting"

this is to insure that you can output an artwork with unlimited length to your vinyl cutter.

For "Sharp Angle" setting, keep it 0 for a normal cut. If you need to cut small letters which are smaller than 5mm in height, then you can change the setting to 0.3-0.5mm. Recommended "Sharp Angle Compensation" figure depends on your vinyl cutter blades used.

Vinyl Page Size Settings

Change "Max Width" to your vinyl cutter's " Max Cutting Width"

Port Setting in Artcut Software:

Please choose COM 3 for USB port in Link to

In Sequential Control please choose DTR/DSR and RTS/CTS

After finishing all of these installations please restart your computer. /

If you have other plotter control software other than Artcut, you can use the above setting in your own software too.

Solution for no COM3 in Artcut

Normally after you reboot your computer, the COM port of Vinyl cutter installed will be listed in Artcut.

If you still cannot find COM3 in Artcut, you need to add it, then close Artcut software and restart your computer.

Install Vinyl Cutter USB Driver

If you have the USB Driver installed already.jump to the next step.

If you haven't installed the driver, install now remember unplug the vinyl cutter USB cable before install the driver.

Now connect the cutting plotter's USB cable with the USB port of the computer The USB device will be found as COM(X) (no need to change to COM3) from Device Manager. It testifies that the machine is connected with computer successfully.

If the port number is more than 10, and windows does not print without any error after you installed printer  please try change the port number to below 10 (COM2/COM3 is recommended  in both places (in USB driver at Device Manager and Ports in Printer Properties) and reboot your computer.

Download Vinyl Cutter Printer Driver

If you have the USB Utility Disk (or CD), you can find the driver under "Printer Driver”.

Install Vinyl Cutter as Printer

Click Add a printer at the top of Devices and Printers (in your control panel)

Choose Add a local printer

Choose COM(X): (Serial Port) (the same port of you installed USB driver)

If you use V-Smart 2015 and later model, choose USB00X (X is the maximum number shown)

Click Have Disk… and located the driver on disk or you just downloaded;

Install Printer "Vinyl Cutting Plotter"

After a couple more steps, you will have a Printer installed.

Use Vinyl Cutter as Printer

You can print from Any Program as a normal printer. If output content is a raster image (photo picture), nothing will cut. If output a vector shape:

o    Hairlines, or very thin lines, less than 0.02mm lines will be cut as is;

o    Thick outline will be cut at inside and outside;

o    Solid uniform fill will be cut at outside.

Set Blade Compensation

If the output is mixed with raster image (bitmap) and vector lines,  only vector lines will be cut.

Our new printer driver is also support blade offset compensation and close compensation at "Printing Preferences".

Cut Directly from CorelDRAW

Here is a sample and some notes for cutting directly from CorelDRAW, or other software that is similar. Please open the print and output window and navigate to "layout setting",  place the image to the Top-Left Corner. Then print.

Cut Directly from Adobe Illustrator

Here is a sample and some notes for cutting directly from Adobe Illustrator. You only need to change Placement Option to Top-Left Corner. Then print.