Vinyl cutters can be very expensive, so [vinyl hacker] decided to share with us the alternate route some people have taken. Here is what you need to get started: An old HP pen plotter with a serial connection. A compatible serial cable. A blade holder (Roland blade holders don’t fit). Some Roland vinyl blades. Cutting software like SignGo of DAHEDIsign. Vinyl (found in sign shop dumpsters). The main resource for these plotter/cutters seems to be luberth.com. It’s hard to navigate, but all of the info you need should be there. Now you can cut stickers, stencils, small signs for very little money.
hi. i have an old cutter and i can’t find its software anywhere. is there a way i can get like a universal software that can work with it?
It might help if you told us a make and model. I have an old Graphtec (I don’t recall the model number) that just used an HP plotter driver. Any Windows device that outputs vector could use it. I even accidentally sent a page of text from Word to it, it dutifully cut out all the letters.