![]() I speculated that the problem here is the hardware flow control was not working properly resulting in the computer sending data while the cutter’s buffer is full and its not listening. This seems to be a frequent complaint of these cheap entry level cutters but I suspected that the cutter is not at fault.Īfter reading up on HPGL, the codes used to control the cutter, I discovered that I can connect to the cutter using a terminal program and enter in “PU0,0 ” to safely return the cutter to the origin, from there you can try cutting again without having to waste any vinyl! The cutter would simply just stop at some random location. So I purchased an adapter with an FTDI chip and it worked equally well on the Mac and Linux.īut when I started trying to cut some more complex designs I ran into some trouble. From Linux it worked ok but from my Mac it had issues communicating with the cutter. I already owned a USB to serial adapter with a prolific chip. ![]() Recently I purchased a 34″ US Cutter MH 871-MK2, it is advertised as specifically not working with a Mac, but really it’s only the included software that won’t work with the Mac. This article is a bit off topic for this blog but I suspect it may help a few people to get their vinyl cutter working. Using a 34″ US Cutter MH 871-MK2 with a Mac and Inkscape ![]()
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