Convert Pen Plotter To Vinyl Cutter

I thought about turning it into a laser cutter.

Convert pen plotter to vinyl cutter.

By practicing this method you ll at least save up a few hundreds of dollars buying new vinyl cutter. Vinyl cutters can be very expensive so vinyl hacker decided to share with us the alternate route some people have taken. This video shows the first tests with an old hp pen plotter able to convert it into a huge vinyl cutter plotter. Can anybody help me with this.

An old hp pen plotter with a. Check out my other video to cut direct from inkscape and not need artcut. After homing your printer go to the manual control tab inside repetier and move the print head up until the tip of the pen goes above the paper. Awhile back my wife and i bought an old plotter a yard sale unfortunately the pens are dry and i m unable to purchase new.

Then move your x y axis to the edge of where. After you ve placing all the blades and the holder on the old hp draftmaster rx pen plotter it s ready to be used as the brand new vinyl cutter. Here is what you need to get started. Not being able to find ways of getting my images from inkscape to artcut2009 this.

For more videos just subscribe like and share. You may find that a pen plotter doesn t meet enough to make vinyl weed properly at the corners. The next step is to make the cutting software ready for the radius correction of.