Cheap Vinyl Cutters

Their are two red buttons on either end of the carriage. These buttons make sure that the carriage wont bang against the side of the cutter if it gets some bad information. However, the cutter WILL NOT boot up if one of these buttons is depressed. This means that if the carriage is all the way to one side, move it GENTLY off of the buttons, and you cutter Pro Cut CR 630 or 1200 should boot right up!

If you have a purple HASP key that is not being recognized by windows, and you cannot open Flex-P you need to install the drivers for it. The latest drivers are available here:

 Aladdin HASP Key Drivers

If you’ve installed the drivers on your ProCut CR-630 Signature Series and you’re getting a blue screen when you plug in your USB plug, you have an old version of drivers and need to update:

VCP Drivers for Windows XP/2000/Vista WHQL Certified

 Common Causes:

1) Make sure your pinch rollers are the same tension.

2) Make sure you have the proper blade offset.

3) Your pinch rollers may be just plain worn out. If the above two didn’t work, try replacing the rollers. One year of use is their average effective lifetime.

Symptoms: While cutting closed shapes like circles, or squares the cutter leaves minute pieces of vinyl uncut that makes weeding difficult. This is a repeatable condition. (i.e. If you cut the same file 10 times, it will leave it uncut in the same place 10 times.)

Solution: This problem is not related to the offset of the blade, but is important that for accurate cuts, you have the offset correct before using this solution! See our guide on Setting the Blade Offset for your cutter.

1. Make sure your blade offset is correctly set.
2. Open up the Settings in your cutting software. We’ll use SignCut X2 for example here.
3. From the Settings Menu, Select Settings, or hit this button from the top toolbar:
4. There is a setting in the middle called “Overcut”. Increase this setting until your cutter no longer leaves pieces uncut. My Refine MH-1351 needed .1 once all was said and done.