Discuss the various aspects of heat pressed vinyl transfers. Popular and new types of vinyl media, suppliers, vinyl cutters /plotters, press times, quality, how to instructions and more can be found in this heat press sub forum.
Does anyone have any experience with a US Cutter brand vinyl cutter? What are its positives and negatives? Will it do just about anything that it needs to for making signs, T-shirts, window decals, stickers etc...
Character is doing whats right, even when no one is looking...
Do a search here there is a ton of info on US Cutters. I think it is probably as good as it gets with Chinese cutters. Don't think any have optic eye registration if you want that...There is a new cutter out from them that ehy say will do registration cutting but not with an optic eye, but with software which is not yet released, so I am waiting to see what they come out with. I looked at them, but in the end decided to go with the known and got the roland GX24
USCutters makes the COPAM 2500 and it get great reviews.
__________________ There is a center to everything.. I found mine at.. www.heatpressessentials.com TEE SQUARE IT, LOGO IT! TEE PAD IT!www.tbiz101.com (New)Heat Transfer Education
I am cutting with their Refine cutter as I type this and it cuts as good as any other cutter on the market.
If I was to buy a new one today it would definitely be their copam series cutter, BTW, wonder why Josh never got back to his review on it, hhhmmm? Maybe it's too good for him to write review since he sells another brand .
I had a "refine" as my first plotter out of my total of 3. Worst machine I've ever owned or used in my entire life. I hear the Copam's are good though, but watch out for the refine series. If you want a good idea of how they work, look at their forums and how many problems they have. Granted, everything has problems, but the kinds that they have are ridiculous. They want you to use someone else's drivers (IE roland/graphtec) instead of creating their own.
Hi, I have the copam,, it has a optical eye to measure material only,, great cutter,, no problems,, its about as loud as a printer,,, some of the cutters out there are very loud...as good as it gets for chinese cutter!!!
I had a "refine" as my first plotter out of my total of 3. Worst machine I've ever owned or used in my entire life. I hear the Copam's are good though, but watch out for the refine series. If you want a good idea of how they work, look at their forums and how many problems they have. Granted, everything has problems, but the kinds that they have are ridiculous. They want you to use someone else's drivers (IE roland/graphtec) instead of creating their own.
Granted they do use "someone else's" drivers, but I have only had one problem with mine and it was user error.
Ever think maybe the reason you "see" so many problems on their forum is because that's what their forum is for? Their biggest problem is static electricity related and I myself have had that problem with mine but have since rectified the problem.
Their USB connection is another problem, I have used it with my computer at the house via USB and have never had one bit of problem so I don't know why so many people have problems with that.
Granted they do use "someone else's" drivers, but I have only had one problem with mine and it was user error.
Ever think maybe the reason you "see" so many problems on their forum is because that's what their forum is for? Their biggest problem is static electricity related and I myself have had that problem with mine but have since rectified the problem.
Their USB connection is another problem, I have used it with my computer at the house via USB and have never had one bit of problem so I don't know why so many people have problems with that.
I hope you're not insinuating that I don't know what a support forum is. Obviously people go there to discuss problems, but I have NEVER seen so many unanswered threads with such a myriad of problems. It also wasn't user error on my part, I received several bad parts and then bad replacements; I should've had a working product out of the box. I understand that you want to justify your purchase and you don't like seeing people bad mouth something you own; but my experience was that it was a piece of junk and a huge hassle. Everyone has different experiences, share yours to contribute to the forum - not to attack mine.
I'm not insinuating anything. You say to go to their forum and look at how many people have had problems. I was simply stating that their forum is a support forum where you are supposed to go if you have problems. You make it sound like everyone who's ever bought a refine series machine has had nothing but problems.
I am on their forums every day and help out as much as I can, and sure there is problems for some, but as I stated previously static electricity and USB problems are the most commonly.
To say those questions go unanswered is crazy, Ken tries to answer every techincal problem there is via forums or he or someone else will call you at your convience.
Reading your first post would scare most people from ever considering a refine model and I was simply stating this is not that case. So there's my contribution to the thread and not a personal attack on anyone.
My Refine has worked flawlessly. I don't use it much since I'm not making signs anymore, but it has never let me down. I honestly have no complaints and wouldn't hesitate to buy another one. It's the only piece of equipment I ever bought that paid for itself the same day UPS dropped it off.
I just received my pcut from uscutters Friday. I must say they waisted no time in getting it shipped to me. If you look at their feedback on eBay, you'll see they sell LOTS of cutters and get almost all positive feedback from over 6000 happy customers. (I did lots of research before my purchase)
Unfortunately, I also had to order a new laptop cause my home computer is a P.O.S. New laptop won't be here for another week. ARRRRRGGGGGGGG! (I ordered a Dell with processor upgrade and Windows XP-I'm scared of Vista)
This is an issue because, you have to register the software online and you can only register it for 1 computer. Not very convenient to say the least, but for the price of the pcut, I can deal with it.
My only other issue would be the assembly instructions for the stand. They suck. The user manual was obviously written by a Chinees person who speaks very poor engrish. Although, with a little determination and reading it over several times, I think I just about got it.
__________________ "It's not the shirt on your back, but what's on the back of your shirt!"
while you're waiting for the new laptop, you can take the USB/serial adapter that comes with the cutter, throw it in the trash and go to Best Buy and buy a new one. The one that comes with the cutter doesn't work.
while you're waiting for the new laptop, you can take the USB/serial adapter that comes with the cutter, throw it in the trash and go to Best Buy and buy a new one. The one that comes with the cutter doesn't work.
I've heard this from several people. DONE!
Thank you!!!
__________________ "It's not the shirt on your back, but what's on the back of your shirt!"
US Cutter brand vinyl cutter? 
Re: US Cutter brand vinyl cutter? 
