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Rebuild / Converting an old penplotter to vinyl cutter !?

Alten Stiftplotter umrüsten zu einem Schneideplotter !?

Knive holder Knife holder for penplotter pen plotter swivel drag

knifes and vinyl arrived => first test => ive put a little extra weight on the knife
(always remember, GOD made gravity available to all, free of cost,
and that thing is very reliable.
Springs and things alike are man-made and are unreliable;-)

Photo Gallery Vinyl cutting examples made with Old Sekonic plotter
i have used the Mimaki knive holder (dimensions are almost the same as a normal HP plotter pen)

Do you have an old penplotter and would like to try vinyl cutting
I offer you a knife holder and knife blades for low price (do not think you will find it cheaper)

Sticker Vinyl where to get it!? and what are the cost

Company	Country		order/shipping cost
Nauta Sign Barneveld Nauta sells to hobbyist when you pay in advance Tell them you came from www.Sticker.TK when ordering ;-) 2x 100meter 100mm plastic transparant transfer tape 2x MF TRANSP .166 100MTRx100mm	Holland	cheapest is 1meter x 61Cm 1.80 Euro (2years) 23 euro Added 32 to 40 Gram Weight on knife	12,50Euro 5Euro
Wassermann-Online Tell them you came from www.Sticker.TK when ordering ;-)	Germany Europe	30meter x 62Cm 50 Euro (5years) This vinyl is harder as above Added 68 Gram Weight on knife	9 Euro 27 Euro
SignTop (Netherlands) - Multi-Fix (Belgium)	Europe?	Requested info for reflective vinyl Recieved very nice brochures Ordered 20Meter x 30cm reflective vinyl Wow! see the effect off the reflective Note: the reflective is harder to cut as normal vinyl on an unmodified plotter Needs more penpressure and Transport rollers have hardly enough grip on A4-A3 plotters Added 68 Gram Weight on knife	?
Some hobbycut info found elsewhere on the internet		Der Plotter schneidet die AVERY 800 (Autobeschriftung) und auch etwas dickere Folie mit einem Andruck von 44 Gramm (langsamste Stufe) ohne Umbau und ohne unnötige Kosten.

Reflective thermal transfer for clothing would like to put some reflective advertising on t-shirts not tested yet dutch plan is een strijkijzer te kopen helaas geen graden celsius aflezing op strijkijzer temperatuur moet 140 a 150 graden celcius zijn voor flex strijkijzer kan warmer worden tinsoldeer smelt op strijkijzer (smeltpunt tinsoldeer 183 ºC) ik wil de strijijzer op een iets grotere aluminium plaat zetten een industrieele temperatuur controller/voeler in de alu plaat zodat hij nauwkeurig op 150Graden celcius kan worden gehouden ach ik maak er later wel eens een pagina van Lotus Transfers International Reflecting transfer materials are by far the most difficult materials to plot, since the have this hard little glass particles which cause the reflection. For the normal flex you do not need a very high pressure. For a Mimaki cg 60-St you would need "pressure 35". Lotus offers a wide range of high-quality-heat-presses of own production as well as transfer material for cad-cut, digital-printing, screen-printing and sublimation.		REF-LITE 9501 (Dealer Netherlands SignTop) NOT for use on most old plotters HARD to cut +/- 200 gram HARD to weed NOT for small detail a lot of work But i like the reflective result on a T-Shirt some info Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-1.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-2.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-3.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-4.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-5.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-6.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-7.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-8.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-9.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-10.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-11.htm Thermo_thermal_flex_flock_textile_transfer-12.htm	1meter x 38cm 16 Euro 1meter x 60cm 26 Euro

How to transfer stickers to object
http://www.luberth.com/help/INDEX.HTM

Mondrian HPGL plotter Selbsgebaut

Making a penplotter yourself is a bit useless and outdated
But building a HPGL_vinyl cutter might be verry interesting and useful
So i made a little messy test setup to have an idea off the dimensions of the old Elektuur (1988) project
some more picture of this book => /hpglplotter_selbsgebaut/

some more picture of this book => /hpglplotter_selbsgebaut/
might also be an interesting project to replace steppers for servo

Tip from Dirk Haupt www.selfmadecnc.de
Hi Luberth
you can handle many paper size with you draft pro!
DIN A4 - DIN A1 !!!!!
The smallest thing i`ve cut are letter about 7mm high.
I`ve made it with a simple trick.
Programm your plotter with DIN A1 size in the plotter menu.
Then i`ve bought me a 0,2mm thick plastic folie.
The size of this folie is DIN A1.
All myvinyl cutting folie will be added with a simple tape on this
folie. The size from the vinyl folie is not important. Now i can cut
all dimensions lower than DIN A1.
For the cuttig off the signmarking folie i use the programm Signlab
5.02. Very exellent software for signmarking.
Wth my Sekonic SPL 880 plotter i made it with the same procedure.
Luberth => I have treid this method with plain paper as bottom material => perfect

Think next is verry nice software and will solve some plotter driver problems

(with overcutting)

Pitty it does not have an extra (smart easy) weeding line halfway text height
frame holds an external site (you can scroll the frame)

frame holds an external site (you can scroll the frame)

Pen Pressure
i added some extra weight to the pen but
It would be better to have a plotter with adjusible pen pressure setting
so the voltage/amperage to the penup/pendown solenoid adjustible
Do you have information or a schematic or even a pcblayout on how to make a adjustible solenoid pen pressure driver
any help would be greatly apreciated
please send it to